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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber opened the doors to the Wilkes-Barre THINK Center, Penn State Wilkes-Barre student Graham Speace’s creativity was on display. Speace, a surveying engineering technology student, was one of four finalists in the “Name The Tech Workshop” contest held by the chamber.
From Lego Land to ogre swamps, from sports to science and animals to art, Penn State Wilkes-Barre is offering 27 enrichment and four sports camps this summer, which are sure to appeal to every young mind.
Local artist Elisabeth Samanas will display her pyrography work May 13-27 in a solo show titled “Burnt Impressions" in the Friedman Art Gallery at Penn State Wilkes-Barre.
