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Wilkes University welcomed new students and their families to its first in-person summer Orientation in two years.

Graduate education faculty member Dr. Grace Surdovel edited and contributed to the recently-published anthology “Love Tenderly,” a collection of powerful stories written by 23 lesbian and queer sisters of the Catholic church.

Members of the Wilkes University Financial Services team spent a day at the Weinberg Food Bank packing boxes of food to be delivered to the families in need in the region.

The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is hosting LitFest from Sunday, June 20 through Thursday, June 24, its first-ever literary festival. Highlights include in-person readings by National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann, NPR’s Maureen Corrigan, “Riding in Cars with Boys” memoirist Beverly Donofrio, readings by …

The Wilkes SHINE after-school program started a food-delivery program to help families experiencing food insecurity during COVID-19.

When Spencer Yacuboski ’21 thought about applying to college, he imagined attending the University of Michigan or MIT. Then he met the professors at Wilkes. “The professors here are very easy to reach out to and become friendly with,” he says. “They are really great.” During his senior year of …

To engineering students, Jim Lennox is a familiar name and face on campus. Having joined Wilkes in 1985, Lennox is the director of instrumentation in the College of Science and Engineering, meaning he installs and repairs electronic equipment. When he’s not doing that, you can find in the machine shop …

Emily Kamieniecki ’20 went straight to working not one but two jobs at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after graduating from Wilkes University in May. In her first job, the medical laboratory science major helps match donor organs with potential patient recipients as a tissue typing laboratory scientist. …

Elena Patestos created the ideal solution for her educational goals as a pharmacy student and found a home at Wilkes. Second-year pharmacy student Elena Patestos is in her fourth year at Wilkes. Then she has two years left to complete the doctor of pharmacy program. The pre-pharmacy program allowed her …

Wilkes University President Greg Cant started work on May 26 with little fanfare. Since then, remote work arrangements due to the pandemic have meant that many in the University community will have to wait until August to begin getting to know the University’s seventh president. Anxious to look beyond his …