Wilkes University recognized 11 faculty and staff members at the 2025 Teacher Recognition and Effectiveness Committee (TREC) Awards Ceremony. David M. Ward, provost and senior vice president for ...

Etruscan Press awarded its annual Etruscan Prize to Ciahnan Darrel for his fiction piece All She Said She Wouldn’t at the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing’s June residency. The prize ...

Built 61 years ago in 1964, the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center is a staple of Wilkes University. Housing the performing arts ...

Wilkes University’s Programming Board hosted its first event on Aug. 23. The annual first-year “Drag Bingo” took place during Welcome Weekend and provided students with a memorable introduction to a ...

The Wilkes University Colonels football team will have a mix of familiar faces and a lot of new ones heading into the 2025 season. Head Coach David Biever is in his second year after a successful ...

Wilkes is launching a national search to find its next women’s lacrosse head coach. University Athletic Director Scott Musa announced earlier this month that Maegan Laymon, women’s lacrosse head coach ...

Children enjoy rides and carnival games at the festival. (Sydney Allabaugh) Attendees listen to live music outside in lawn chairs at this year’s Cherry Blossom Festival on April 26 and April 27.

For two years now, I have been producing weekly issues of the Icebox. I have been playing Smash for far longer, however. The game has been a core part of my life ever since I was five years old. Now, ...

A lot of people hear me talk about Smash often, and some even ask me about what exactly I do and why it is impressive. The answer to that is not simple, but I figured teaching how to play Snake would ...

New York Times bestselling author and winner of the 2017 Man Booker prize, George Saunders visited Wilkes University on Tuesday, April 15. Saunders is a highly regarded writer. He was selected as one ...

Sydney Allabaugh is the editor-in-chief of The Beacon and will graduate in May 2025 with a degree in Communication Studies. Outside of her work at The Beacon, she is the director of Wilkes Now and ...

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced his plan to posthumously pardon former Major League Baseball (MLB) player Pete Rose. Known as the player with the most hits and as one of the best ...