The Penn State Wilkes-Barre baseball team won its first regular season championship of any kind since 2000 by finishing 12-3 in the PSUAC East Division and earning the No. 1 seed in the PSUAC conference playoffs.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre’s Nesbitt Library has updated its two formerly single-stall, gender-specific restrooms (women and men) to two gender-neutral restrooms.
Ginger Zielinskie, president and chief executive officer, Benefits Data Trust, will be the commencement speaker for the 2019 commencement ceremony at Penn State Wilkes-Barre.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre Continuing Education has announced a new credit certificate program, Enterprise Resource Planning with SAP, designed for working adults.
Robert Mastropole, III, an administrative justice student at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, has been honored by the Luzerne County Council on Adult Higher Education as the Penn State Wilkes-Barre 2019 Outstanding Adult Learner of the Year.
Dale Jones, chancellor of Penn State Wilkes-Barre, Lynda Goldstein, associate chief academic officer, and campus students met with elected officials to discuss tuition, educational programming, and economic growth, and to share stories of how the University makes valuable contributions to Pennsylvania.
Entrepreneurs across the University will pitch their business ideas and create inventive solutions to common problems through a series of competitions and challenges held during Penn State Startup Week from April 1-5. The challenges are at the heart of Startup Week’s mission of teaching and inspiring participants to make innovation a part of their lives, communities and careers, either by starting their own companies or bringing a problem-solving approach to established organizations.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre Honors students in Great Britain are learning the significance that the establishment of the prime meridian and precise time-keeping have to economics and trade.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre hosted the 2019 Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Science Olympiad, held on Wednesday, March 6. Science Olympiad sponsors district, regional, state, and national science tournaments for middle school and high school students.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre's men's basketball team made history on March 6 when it became the first Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) men’s basketball program to capture a national championship.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre men’s basketball coach LeShawn Hammett has been named USCAA Men’s Basketball Coach of the Year.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre men’s basketball made its first-ever appearance in the USCAA Final Four.
Penn State Wilkes-Barre students earning a GPA of at least 3.5 the previous semester are given a place on the Dean’s List.
A representative from ABJ Drones will be giving a presentation and demonstration on the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus. The talk will primarily focus on the use of drones for emergencies, fire, rescue and forensics.
On Saturday, May 18, eight Penn State organizations will co-sponsor the 10th annual Penn State Day at Knoebels Amusement Park in Elysburg. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. at Pavilion M. A program will begin at 11 a.m. and will include lunch, a performance by the Alumni Blue Band, an appearance by the Nittany Lion, and prize raffles.
