To enable cellular calls in areas with weak carrier coverage or in buildings with spotty reception, Voice over Wireless, or Wi-Fi calling, is now supported at Penn State through the University’s primary cellular vendors: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre and Chancellor Charles Davis honored the 2016 graduating class during a commencement ceremony May 7 in the campus’ Athletic and Recreation Building.
In the campus' continuing efforts to support the local community, Penn State Wilkes-Barre faculty and staff made a donation to the Weinberg Northeast Regional Food Bank's Feeding America Backpack Program.
One of the first graduates of Penn State’s shared Corporate Communication program, Shawnna Meyers, participated in her commencement this past weekend, and she attributes much of her success to her professional e-portfolio. Recently, we asked Meyers to share her story with us and explored how the use of e-portfolios and being part of a shared academic program has helped her succeed, both in college and in acquiring her first career-related job.
This July, Christopher Cantine, a senior business management major, will represent Penn State Wilkes-Barre in Canada on the 2016 CAN-AM Challenge College Basketball Tour. The eight-day trip will take Cantine through Ontario, making stops in Ottawa, Toronto, Brampton, Oakville and Niagra Falls, where he will compete against Canadian college teams along the way.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre Chancellor Charles Davis and the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Student Government Association are pleased to announce the 2015-16 student recipients of the John R. Murphy Award for Excellence in Leadership & Service, the Martin U. Dougherty Emerging Leader Award, and the Eric A. & Josephine S. Walker Award.
Today (June 20) in the Capitol Rotunda, Penn State announced the awarding of six additional $50,000 seed grants to jump start entrepreneurial activities across the Commonwealth and celebrate its 13 newly launched entrepreneurship programs in Pennsylvania that are expected to spur economic development, job creation and student career success.
Beginning Aug. 23, Penn State Wilkes-Barre will begin hosting four seven-week SAT preparation course sessions for those students interested in taking the SAT exam for the 2016-17 dates.
The Penn State Board of Trustees will hold its regular meeting on Friday, July 22, in the library located in the Nesbitt Academic Commons on the Wilkes-Barre campus, in Lehman, Pennsylvania. Committee meetings will be held on July 21 at the Nesbitt Academic Commons. The public comment period will begin at 8 a.m. Friday, July 22.
