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EDITOR’S NOTE: News@Wilkes is revisiting this story about Bryan Stevenson, who delivered the 2019 Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities. Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice initiative, shared a powerful and important message about the narrative around race in the United States and about the need for criminal…

Seth Platukis Hometown: Weston, Pa. Bachelor of Arts, Biology and Secondary Education Activities and Achievements: A dean’s list student, he was the recipient of the Wilkes University Polish Heritage Scholarship. Platukis was active on campus in a variety of activities reflecting his multiple talents. He was an honored speaker at the…

Thomas Franko, Wilkes University assistant professor of pharmacy practice, says his teaching philosophy has always been to present material in a way that is both entertaining and engaging. Maintaining that philosophy has been put to the test as University classes moved to a remote learning format in response to the…

Senior Ashley Abbey found her way to Wilkes University while taking a college tour road trip with her family. While checking out universities along her route from her hometown of Rochester, N.Y., Abbey quickly fell in love with the University. Now the marketing and management double major is spreading the…

Greg Cant, Ph.D. will join Wilkes in June 2020. Wilkes University’s Board of Trustees announced today that Greg Cant will be the University’s seventh president. Cant, currently serving as the dean of the Feliciano School of Business at Montclair State University in New Jersey, will join Wilkes effective June 15, …

The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University ushered in the holiday season with a cookie decorating event. Armed with icing, sprinkles and other tasty decorations, students turned sweater-shaped cookies into works of edible art. And just in case the cookies seemed too pretty to eat, there were extra sugar cookies…

There’s no mistaking Wagiha Taylor’s office in the Sidhu School of Business. It’s the one with the four-foot tall poster featuring Taylor’s elegant, smiling image and highlighted with Arabic writing. The poster – a memento from an international conference where Taylor was a guest speaker — is mounted on the…

What does a digital marketing director do? In News@Wilkes’ latest “Meet” feature, we learn the answer to that question and more as we get to know Mandy Pennington, who joined the University this year as the first person to hold a position 100 percent dedicated to marketing Wilkes on digital…

As part of an on-going series introducing campus departments and the people who work there, News@Wilkes looks at members of the Admissions Department. Meet admissions counselor, Cierra Steele.  What do you do? What I do in my job as an admissions counselor is meet with prospective high school students at high school visits,…

Wilkes University broke out the bells and whistles when it dedicated Bruggeworth Field at the Ralston Athletic Complex. The event took place on Saturday, Oct. 5 during the University’s homecoming weekend. The nearly $8 million project includes a multi-purpose turf field that will be used for men’s and women’s soccer,…