July 12, 2019 - King’s College has formed an external nursing advisory board comprised of 14 regional health care professionals in response to the changes and challenges in health care education.
June 19, 2019 - Sixty-six students entering their final year of the master’s degree physician assistant program at King’s College recently began their clinical rotations, many with local health care practitioners. A twelve-week rotation in family medicine and separate six-week rotations in medical specialties including emergency medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and general surgery will conclude with their graduation from the program in August 2020. In addition to local health care facilities, physician assistant students are also completing rotations in Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia, South Carolina, Illinois, Florida, Arkansas, Maryland, Texas, and Wisconsin.
June 5, 2019 - Seven King’s College students will spend the summer studying at various countries in Europe and South America.
May 31, 2019 - Faculty members of the King’s College History Department will conduct a community commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Baltimore Mine disaster at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 5. The event will be held at the site of the Pennsylvania historical marker honoring the almost 100 miners who were killed on June 5, 1919. The marker is located at the corner of Pine and Spring streets (entrance of Spring Street Plaza) in Wilkes-Barre.
May 28, 2019 - Ten students received a bachelor’s degree from both the University of Notre Dame and King’s College recently, becoming the second group to complete the 3+2 Engineering Dual Program between King’s College and Notre Dame.
May 22, 2019 - Nineteen local residents recently received academic awards that were announced during King’s College’s Commencement weekend.
May 22, 2019 – During Commencement Weekend, May 18 – 19, 2019, King’s College President Rev. John Ryan, C.S.C., Ph.D. conferred Alumni Awards upon five distinguished alumni who have demonstrated remarkable contributions to their professional fields, to the communities in which they live, and to King’s College. Members of the faculty, staff, administration, and alumni assisted the president in the selection process from among nominees submitted by alumni and friends of the College.
May 21, 2019 – King’s College recently held an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Theatre major, and honored the program’s founder, Carl E. Wagner. The event was held in the George P. Maffei II Theatre on King’s campus and more than 100 alumni and friends of the program attended the event. Tony Award-winning designer and King’s Alumnus Santo Loquasto ’66 saluted Wagner with a champagne toast and King’s Theatre Professor M. Sheileen Godwin ’83 provided the honorary remarks.
May 20, 2019 - Sixteen King’s College students and two faculty members will participate in an intensive two-week study abroad experience through Belgium and the Netherlands during late May to mid-June.
May 15, 2019 - Senior Alison Moyer is the recipient of the King’s College Faculty Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year.
