Wilkes University

Wilkes University hosts plus-size Hijabi model and award-winning author Leah Vernon

WILKES-BARRE — The Wilkes University English Department, as part of its Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series, will host a reading by guest artist Leah Vernon at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, in the Kirby Hall Salon.

Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence on display at Sordoni Art Gallery

WILKES-BARRE — This traveling exhibition of stunning bead-art from South Africa tells a luminous story of independence, migration and memory.

Hoffman’s Music and Comics opens new store in Wilkes-Barre

WILKES-BARRE - Hoffman’s Music and Comics, a client of the Wilkes University Small Business Development Center, celebrated its grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony at the end of November.

Wilkes University Theatre to perform Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel”

WILKES-BARRE — Wilkes University Theatre takes audiences for a spin with a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Carousel” at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts.

Wyoming man Kevin Schiel creates tabletop game, receives consortium award

WILKES-BARRE — Kevin Schiel’s tabletop card game was created at the intersection of intellect and interest.The 28-year-old Wyoming man fashioned Planets as a culminating...

Awarded author Rivka Galchen to open Wilkes University’s Writers Series

WILKES-BARRE — Rivka Galchen finds inspiration all around her. Her stories are set in motion by both peripheral thoughts and grand concepts, and she...

Renowned photographer Lydia Panas shows raw portraits at Sordoni Gallery

WILKES-BARRE — Bringing out both the serene and the solemn of her subjects, Lydia Panas’ photography showcases raw and honest beauty and vulnerability in...

Ying Li brings ‘Geographies’ to Wilkes University’s Sordoni Art Gallery

WILKES-BARRE — Over the last four year’s of Ying Li’s career, her landscape paintings are not immediately recognizable, but Li is not concerned with...

Wilkes professor, retired G.A.R. teacher say Bob Dylan deserves Nobel Prize

When the Swedish Academy announced Oct. 13 that working faction, the Nobel Committee, selected Bob Dylan as the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize...

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