On Saturday, April 11, 2015 The Penn State Surveying Society hosted a day-long session for Boy Scouts from all over the area to have the opportunity to earn the unique Surveying Merit Badge. The Boy Scouts from Luzerne County included troops 193, 28, 311, and 444. The event took place in the Bell Atlantic/Bell of Pennsylvania Building (Tech Center) and the Tech Center Lawn.
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, Penn State Wilkes-Barre hosted its first Undergraduate Research Day. The event, which was co-sponsored and supported by the Wilkes-Barre campus and the Penn State University Libraries, consisted of 61 posters created by 107 students, highlighting their research this semester.
Scott Miner, Penn State Wilkes-Barre Director of Athletics, proudly announces the class of 2015 Penn State Wilkes-Barre Athletics Wall of Fame. Those inductees are George Jones, Ed Keil, Michele Vowler and Michael Haley.
Three Penn State Wilkes-Barre Information Sciences & Technology (IST) seniors went to University Park on April 8th to participate in the 2015 Undergraduate Exhibition. Senior IST students Robert Carey, Joseph Demellier, and Andrew Hill, supervised by Wei-Fan Chen and Frouke de Quillettes represented the Wilkes-Barre campus.
The Penn State Wilkes-Barre baseball team lost both of their games at Penn State Hazleton on April 19th. In the first of the two games, Wilkes-Barre fell 10-5. Portugal had one run and one hit. Klinger had one run and one hit. Brodi had one run, one hit and two RBI's, and Gulbierz had one run and one hit as well.
The Penn State Wilkes-Barre men's baseball team lost both of their games vs. Penn State Worthington Scranton on April 18th. In the first of the two games, Wilkes-Barre fell 6-4. Portugal had one run, one hit and one BB. Klinger had two runs, two hits, one RBI and one BB, while Ed Moffet had one run and two hits.
The Penn State Wilkes-Barre baseball team lost both of their games vs. Penn State Beaver on April 16th. In the first of the two games, Wilkes-Barre fell 7-2. Frank Brodi and Jeffrey Carter had the only two runs of the game. Adamczyk had a hit and an RBI and was walked once, and Carter had the other RBI in the game.
On Friday, July 10th, 2015 the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Alumni Constituent Society will host its 19th Annual Penn State "Masters" Golf Tournament at Blue Ridge Trail Golf Club in Mountain Top, PA.
On Saturday, June 20, 2015 the Penn State Wilkes-Barre Alumni Constituent Society is offering a bus trip to Lake Seneca. This event is co-sponsored by the Penn State Schuylkill Alumni Society. The tour will consist of Wagner Vineyard, Hazlitt 1852 Vineyards, Rock Stream Vineyards, and Glenora Wine Cellars. The bus will depart from the Penn State Wilkes-Barre gym parking lot at 7:00 a.m.
The Penn State Wilkes-Barre baseball team lost both of their games at Penn State Mont Alto on April 12th. In the first of the two games, Wilkes-Barre fell 7-2. Alex Klinger and Jeffrey Carter each had one run. Carter also was credited with the RBI on Klinger's run. In the second game of the afternoon's doubleheader, Wilkes-Barre fell to Mont Alto 4-0.