Penn State Wilkes-Barre and its LaunchBox are supporting entrepreneurship beginning at the high school level through programming and partnerships in the region. This year’s Teen Entrepreneurial Challenge includes five sessions of business mentoring and coaching, led by Penn State entrepreneurship educators and local small-business leaders.
Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses and the state’s community colleges have announced a new collaboration aimed at expanding educational opportunities in Pennsylvania and removing barriers to degree completion among college students. The collaboration builds upon long-standing relationships between the campuses and the community colleges and a shared commitment to access and affordability in higher education.
Two faculty members from Penn State Wilkes-Barre conducted restorative justice training with members of the Wyoming and Sullivan County Juvenile Probation Departments, sharing the concepts of restorative justice and how it can benefit them in their work.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre has named 152 students to its fall 2023 Dean’s List. To be eligible, undergraduate students must achieve a one-semester grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre recently hosted a special event to recognize faculty and staff who are published authors. The Authors’ Reception was held in Nesbitt Library and honored those who published works from 2020 to 2023.
Four Penn State Wilkes-Barre students received academic awards this year through Arts at Hayfield, the nonprofit campus and community-arts organization.
A recent alumnus of Penn State Wilkes-Barre received a Young Professionals Award from the Greater Wyoming Valley Chamber of Commerce at an event held this fall.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre held its annual scholarship dinner on Oct. 19, recognizing donors and bringing them together with campus students who have received scholarships.
Kiarra Moore, a criminal justice major from Rochester, New York, is in her final year at Penn State Wilkes-Barre after transferring to the campus from Genessee Community College in New York for the start of her junior year.
Recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty across the University were honored Oct. 2 through Penn State’s Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program, now in its 21st year, during a private event held in the Paterno Family Humanities Reading Room on the second floor of Pattee Library at the University Park campus.
