On Sunday, April 25, The 2021 Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities was presented in a virtual format and featured legendary radio host Terry Gross, the popular host of NPR’s interview-style show “Fresh Air.” The program featured Wilkes University’s professor of communication studies Dr. Mark Stine, who served as…
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Senior communication studies major Kirsten Peters has added a few titles to her resume since entering Wilkes in 2017. The first was “intern” to the Colonels’ baseball team, a job that included taking pictures and maintaining the team’s social media accounts. Later, she added sports writer and co-sports editor of The…
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Speaking of Law School: A Conversation With Wilkes Alumna Alyssa Mursch’17 and Pre-Law Program Advisor Kyle Kreider
by Web ServicesAlumna Alyssa Mursch ’17, now a third-year law student at Duquesne University, talked with Kyle Kreider, associate professor of political science and pre-law program advisor, about her path to studying law. Her journey started with an internship and taking a year off after graduating from Wilkes with a degree in…
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Two Wilkes University students have been awarded Bierly Fellowships to fund internship experiences in 2020. The Bierly Fellowship funds a credit or non-credit cooperative education or internship experience, an international or domestic study-away experience or off-campus undergraduate research. Fellows are chosen in the fall and spring of each year from…
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Communication studies major Sarah Matarella doesn’t limit her learning to the classroom. Sarah Matarella rarely sits still. As an e-mentor, she helps first-year students get accustomed to college life. She’s an editor for The Beacon student newspaper and president of the dance team. “I have always wanted to get the most out of any…
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January is Mentoring Month and this News@Wilkes story highlights the strong mentoring culture and the many mentoring relationships on campus. When McKaylah McKay, a digital design and media arts major, needs encouragement on a creative project, she knows she can count on assistant professor Lisa Reynolds. “She always gives you…
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Wilkes Senior Ashley Abbey Positions Herself for Future in Marketing as Kirby Scholar of Business Development
by Web ServicesSenior 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…
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Calling The Shots: Wilkes Senior Ben Mandell Pairs Student Athletics with Career in Sports Broadcast
by Web ServicesWilkes University senior Ben Mandell has loved sports since he was a kid. While his friends were tuned in to Saturday morning cartoons, he was watching sports talk shows with his dad. It paid off because now the Edison, N.J., native is on his way to a career in sports…
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Wilkes University senior Cabrini Rudnicki likes the challenge of assembling the weekly campus newspaper, The Beacon. “It’s really like putting the puzzle together,” she explains. “Putting together the elements to make one cohesive issue each week.” As editor-in-chief of the student-run publication, she’s worked her way up the staff list.…
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Advocacy Journalist and Digital Coordinator Dan King to Keynote At Wilkes University’s Bigler Journalism Conference
by Web ServicesDan King, advocacy journalist for Young Voices and digital coordinator at In Pursuit Of, LLC will be the keynote speaker at Wilkes University’s 19th annual Tom Bigler Journalism Conference. The conference will be held on Friday, April 26 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Tom Bigler Journalism conference invites…
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