Penn State Wilkes-Barre has received a Pennsylvania State University Engineering Technology and Commonwealth Engineering (ETCE) Program Enhancement Grant (PEG).
The Certified Recovery Specialist program will be held at the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Northern Tier Center in Towanda from 5-8 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays from June 6 through Aug. 3. The 54-hour Certified Recovery Specialist is a peer support position formally recognized by the Pennsylvania Certification Board.
This spring Penn State expects to award 13,894 diplomas to students University-wide who are completing 226 associate, 11,435 baccalaureate, 1,590 master’s, 262 law, 244 doctoral and 137 medical degrees. Following is a compilation of commencement ceremonies and speaker information for Penn State’s 24 locations.
It’s no secret that Penn State includes a network of campuses throughout the state of Pennsylvania, but incoming students may not be fully aware of all the financial benefits attending a campus other than University Park may afford.
The 2017 Celebration of Scholarship winners have been announced. Sponsored by Penn State Wilkes-Barre and the campus' Nesbitt Library, the competition drew more than 140 poster entries this year.
The Penn State Hazleton library is sponsoring sessions on financial literacy for students, community members and employees on April 26. Two sessions are scheduled for employees and students of the Hazleton, Schuylkill, Wilkes-Barre and Worthington Scranton campuses.
On April 7, Penn State Wilkes-Barre hosted the Forum on Black Affairs, an organization whose goal is to partner with the University to encourage racial diversity, and specifically to create a climate conducive for black faculty and staff to thrive on each Penn State campus.
"Therapy, Themes, & Theories of Psychology," an art gallery exhibit prepared in collaboration with on-campus clinicians, will be on display in the Friedman Art Gallery at Penn State Wilkes-Barre through the end of April. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
