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March 25, 2019 - Jennifer Judge Yonkoski, assistant technical professor of English at King’s College, and several Northeastern Pennsylvania poets will host the college’s first-ever poetry retreat on Saturday, May 11, from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Sheehy-Farmer Campus Center. The cost to attend the retreat is $25, which includes lunch, dinner, and refreshment service throughout the day. The registration deadline is Monday, April 25. Poets of all experience levels are welcome to attend.

March 22, 2019 - Area educators are invited to submit proposals for workshops centering on innovative teaching techniques that will be conducted during an annual evidence-based practices conference for Pre-K through high school teachers to be held August 7 at King’s College.

March 20, 2019 - Poetry in Transit, an award-winning program that showcases poems on Luzerne County buses, is currently accepting submissions for the 2019-2020 season. Submissions are open to any writer, regardless of age or location. The submission deadline is Friday, May 10.

March 20, 2018 - The King’s College Theatre Department will host the Third Annual George P. and Giovita Maffei Family High School Shakespeare Competition on Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5, in the George P. Maffei II Theatre. Any student of a public, private, or home school, in ninth through twelfth grade is eligible to participate in the competition.

March 18, 2019 – On March 11, Kirk S. Borchert, Vice President, Technology Services Officer and Debra Skurkis, Associate Vice President, Community Office Manager for FNCB Bank visited King’s College campus to present Rev. John Ryan, C.S.C., Ph.D., President of King’s College with a check for $3,000 in support of the College’s Pre-Kindergarten Scholarship Program. FNCB Bank donated to King’s as part of the state’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program, which is administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. 

March 15, 2019 - The Pennsylvania Association for College Admission Counseling (PACAC) is hosting its Annual Northeast Regional College Fair on Monday, April 29, in the Scandlon Physical Education Center at King’s College.

March 14, 2019 - Three King’s College Athletic Training (AT) faculty members, the dean of the College’s Health Science division, and a senior AT student, have been selected to present at the 70^th Annual National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Clinical Symposia and AT Expo this summer.

March 13, 2019 - Dr. Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and an associate professor of American studies and history at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the 40^th annual Moreau Lecture at King’s College.  Cummings will discuss “Pope Francis and the American Saints: Witness from the Past, Wisdom for the Future” at both 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in the Burke Auditorium of the McGowan School of Business, corner of N. River and W. Union Streets, Wilkes-Barre.

March 11, 2019 – On February 21, James Gorman, Senior Vice President, Business Services Officer for Branch Banking and Trust Company (BB&T) visited King’s College campus to present Rev. John Ryan, C.S.C., Ph.D., President of King’s College with a check for $6,000 in support of the College’s Pre-Kindergarten Scholarship Program. BB&T donated to King’s as part of the state’s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program, which is administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. 

March 4, 2019 - Dr. Christopher Aults, Assistant Professor of Psychology at King’s College, was recently awarded the 2018 Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) Distinguished Publication Award for a paper he coauthored. The paper, “Psychological Androgyny and Children’s Mental Health: A New Look with New Measures,” was discussed at this year’s AWP Symposium in Newport, Rhode Island.