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  • Meet the Script Your Future Team: Steph Nowak

    by Kelly Clisham March 11, 2026
    March 11, 2026

    Script Your Future is a national campaign designed to educate consumers about the need to take medication as prescribed. Steph Nowak, a P3 pharmacy student from Exeter, Pennsylvania, is one member of the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy team hosting community engagement events to help people “Stick to the Script.” Why …

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  • Wilkes University Awarded an Investment in Nursing Care

    by Kelly Clisham March 9, 2026
    March 9, 2026

    Wilkes University recently received $500,000 to enhance its Clinical Nursing Simulation Center. The federal funds represent a portion of more than $1 million earmarked for northeastern Pennsylvania in the 2026 budget as announced by Senator John Fetterman’s office.  While the money, along with $750,000 in Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) …

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  • Dr. Daniel R. Green to Present Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture on March 18

    by Nick Penglase March 6, 2026
    March 6, 2026

    Paleoecologist and biological anthropologist, Daniel R. Green, will present this year’s Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, “Chemical Paleontology: Paleoclimate and Evolution from the East African Rift System,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture is free and open to the public. Global cooling over …

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  • Meet the Script Your Future Team: Nori Zaccheo

    by Kelly Clisham March 4, 2026
    March 4, 2026

    Script Your Future is a national consumer education campaign designed to raise awareness about the importance of medication adherence.  Nori Zaccheo, a P3 pharmacy student from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is one member of the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy team who is out in the community encouraging people to “Stick to the …

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  • Professor, Students Publish Positive Environmental Findings in E. coli Research

    by Brie Friedman March 3, 2026
    March 3, 2026

    Wilkes Professor & Students Publish Research on How E. coli Precipitates Calcium Carbonate and Its Positive Implications on Environment E. coli gets a bad rap. Associated more often in the public consciousness with illness and food recalls than with anything beneficial, E. coli (Escherichia coli) is actually much more complicated …

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  • Jay S. Sidhu Visits Campus, Speaks to Students

    by Brie Friedman February 27, 2026
    February 27, 2026

    Sidhu Shares the Importance of Purpose & Resiliency in Leadership with the College of Business & Engineering Students On a recent visit to campus, Jay S. Sidhu MBA ‘73 passionately peered into the crowd of eager undergraduates, challenging them with a question, “What is one thing you would like to …

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  • Peer Tutoring Program Awarded International Certification

    by Brie Friedman February 24, 2026
    February 24, 2026

    Wilkes University is pleased to announce that the Office of Academic Success’s Peer Tutor program has been awarded certification as a Level 1 certified tutor training program by the internationally recognized College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). For more than 30 years, CRLA has been a leader in learning assistance, …

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  • Poet Brionne Janae Opens Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series

    by Brie Friedman February 19, 2026
    February 19, 2026

    The Wilkes University English Department will open the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with guest artist Brionne Janae at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25, in the Kirby Hall Salon, 202 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre. Janae will perform a reading of their poems, followed by a question-and-answer session. The …

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  • Pharmacy Writes a Winning Script

    by Kelly Clisham February 13, 2026
    February 13, 2026

    Students from the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy scored a big win, earning the Media/Communication Award for the 2025 Script Your Future Team Challenge.  Script Your Future, founded in 2011, is a national consumer education campaign that helps to raise awareness about the importance of medication adherence as a vital first …

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  • Don’t Hold the Laughs: Wilkes University Theatre Presents Urinetown

    by Kelly Clisham February 12, 2026
    February 12, 2026

    In a world overcome by environmental collapse, corporate greed and unchecked bureaucracy, will anyone stand up to the powers-that-be and fight for the privilege to pee? That’s the question at the center of Urinetown, the satirical musical that will storm the stage at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the …

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