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A tale of two dances: dance company performs contrasting shows in annual concert

UNH Professor of Theatre and Dance Gay Nardone didn’t plan on creating a dance concert that was also a social commentary on the division of social class, it just sort of happened.  

Moving up the ranks:Student Body Vice President Carley Rotenberg elected as 2017-18 student body president

The results of the student body elections were announced on Sunday at precisely 4 p.m. Presidential and vice presidential candidates Carley Rotenberg and Alexandra Burroughs won the general student election for their respective positions, and Christian Merheb won the election for student board representative running as the only official candidate on the ballot.

Lal explores the Nepali language with engaging discussion in Cultural Connections

Xi Sigma Pi teams with Thompson School greenhouses for plant sale

Comedian Eliot Chang tackles race with comedy

Center for the Humanities encourages expression with read-in

Significance of the naked female body within protests discussed in COLA lecture

Student org educates community about Iranian culture

Student Senate Update: New student senate speaker elected, resolutions on fraternity and sorority GPA requirements, UNH gun policy passed.

SCOPE announces Galantis as spring concert

The Student Committee on Popular Entertainment (SCOPE) announced Tuesday that electronic dance music (EDM) artist Galantis will perform in this year’s spring concert on Thursday, April 20. It will be the second consecutive year that SCOPE will feature a DJ since the university hosted Kygo in fall 2015.

UNH welcomes Yale School of Music alumnus, discusses 'medicine of music'

With his eloquent story telling and violin playing, Vijay Gupta charmed students and audience members alike, on Wednesday evening in the Strafford Room in the Memorial Union Building (MUB) during his lecture “The Medicine of Music.”

Music Mentors Program provides inside look into music industry

Coordinator of Student Organizations and Leadership of UNH Panelists, Nate Hastings, and singer/songwriter and producer Elissa Margolin led a discussion concerning the diversity of options throughout the music industry and the particular methods of approaching the music business as part of the UNH’s Music Mentors Program meeting on Monday, March 27. This program welcomes all students interested in any elements of the music business. No fees or advanced sign-ups are required to attend.

Opportunity inequality touched upon in MUC lecture

Theater II of the Memorial Union Building was filled almost to capacity this Wednesday afternoon as the annual John A. Hogan Distinguished Lecture Series welcomed University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Timothy Smeeding to the podium.

Students 'jailed' in effort to raise money for Relay for Life

A handful of students were selected to be put into a wooden “jail cell” and beg passersby for money so they could be freed from the enclosure as part of the Relay for Life Committee’s fundraising event at the Murkland Hall courtyard on Tuesday, March 28.

Presentation commemorates UNH women's rights and equality activists, past and present

Men and women alike were welcomed to the Strafford Room with a slideshow of the Women’s March in Washington D.C., smooth jazz and a catered buffet as part of the UNH Women’s Commission’s event “The Fruit of the Struggle.”  Differing from events of previous years, this particular event shifted its keynote focus to the perspective of UNH students.

Founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project speaks to students, gains enthusiasm

Panel tackles Trump administration, Islamophobia

Terrorists—who and where are they? Monday afternoon, in  Theater II of the Memorial Union Building, a panel of professors spoke about the political and environmental change in the Middle East as well as President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders regarding travel restrictions, more commonly dubbed as the “Travel Ban.” The panel discussion, titled “National Security, Islam and the Trump Administration,” was sponsored by the departments of political science and history, the internation affairs program.

STEM majors look to increase female presence

Only 23 percent of students at UNH’s College of Engineering and Physical Science (CEPS) are female, but many students and faculty are committed to increasing gender diversity in CEPS programs.

#Fight4Her continues efforts for Global HER Act in nation's capital

             UNH members of the #Fight4HER campaign continued to campaign for the protection of international reproductive rights last weekend when they traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend a conference hosted by Population Connection Action Fund, the organization that funds and oversees #Fight4HER.

Sigma Beta to return to campus after 9-year ban