Penn State Wilkes-Barre’s Friedman Observatory is hosting several on- and off-campus “Solar Masquerade” events for the community to celebrate the upcoming partial and near-total solar eclipses in October 2023 and April 2024.
Kevin Major, a 2022 graduate of Penn State Wilkes-Barre, has signed a contract to play professional basketball in Albania this season. Major will play with the team BC Partizani Tirana, which plays in the Albanian A-1 league and is the most successful team in Albanian basketball history with 33 championships won.
Jeremy Olson, assistant professor of criminal justice at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, has received international recognition for his research in the field of restorative justice, a philosophy that believes that people can and should live in ways where they avoid doing harm to each other. Olson led a group of researchers on a project that reviewed how American schools were implementing restorative justice into their discipline practices.