When imagining what it’s like to be a pharmacist, a familiar image often comes to mind: a person in a white coat behind the counter filling prescriptions. The reality is so much more. For high school students who may be considering a future in the pharmacy field, RxExperience at Wilkes …

On Tues., Feb. 3, a flag of red, black and green was raised above the Wilkes University campus in the Fenner Quadrangle as part of a celebration for Black History Month hosted by the Office of Diversity Initiatives, E.S. Farley Library and Black Student Union.  Created in 1920 by Marcus …

Amor Towles, bestselling author, will deliver the annual Wilkes University Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the newly-renovated Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 South River St., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Towles’s award-winning novels have collectively sold more than …

Wilkes University will celebrate Black History Month with a variety of lectures and events.  Pan-African Flag Raising and Coffee Hour Tuesday, Feb. 3 from 11:00 a.m. to noon outside the E.S. Farley Library Join the Office of Diversity Initiatives, E.S. Farley Library, and Black Student Union for a Pan African …

Who do you get when you combine a martial arts expert with an ambitious computer science major? You get Nate Martes, a junior honors student who is also minoring in cloud computing. Born in the Bronx, Martes now lives in Wilkes-Barre. He chose Wilkes not only because it is local …

Wilkes University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, sponsored by the Office of Diversity Initiatives and the Multicultural Student Coalition, featured speakers, music and a buffet lunch from Caribbean Paradise. The event honored the late civil rights icon by inspiring the audience to focus on the theme “Imani in Everyday …

Wilkes University has been awarded a $27,182 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to study how forest management practices influence declining bird species in northeastern Pennsylvania, including prairie warblers and wood thrush. The funding is part of nearly $530,000 announced by the Shapiro Administration to …

Members of the University community and invited guests gathered in November to dedicate the Dr. Bing K. Wong College of Arts and Sciences and offer thanks to the donor who made the naming of the College possible. With 25 undergraduate majors and two graduate programs spread throughout multiple buildings on …

The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University will host evening readings in a variety of genres, featuring alumni, faculty, and guest artists. These readings are free and open to the public and will take place during the program’s low-residency program in January, from Sunday, January 4, …

Fanta Ballo often says that growing up in Harlem raised both the artist, and the activist, in her. As a teenager, Ballo found that her voice was routinely silenced or overlooked, and so she turned to writing as a way to reclaim her agency, and help process the world around …