Durham Parks and Rec Department hosts annual Christmas tree lighting
Student Senate Speaker Alex Fries walked into his office in the Memorial Union Building at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 4 to find a manila folder that contained a collection of petitions to impeach Student Body President Jonathan Dean. Fries said that the petitions were brought forth on account of a few offenses that were potentially violations of the specific bylaws concerning the student body president. Over the course of the next two hours, Fries continued to receive petitions regarding the subject.
UNH is confidently predicting that the Hamilton Smith Hall renovation and addition project will be finished for the start of the 2017 fall semester. UNH Facilities Project Management Director Brenda Whitmore said that the existing Hamilton Smith Hall has progressed tremendously this semester. The structural remediation is complete, a new utility system has been installed and finishing touches are beginning on the building’s interior. On the exterior, the new slate roof work is underway; followed by the reconstruction of the windows along with exterior stone work and wood trim repairs.
The UNH Paul Creative Arts Center (PCAC) closed on Oct. 17 in preparation of renovations, and is now set to hold its opening reception on Feb. 2, 2017.
Before leaving for break to feast on the long awaited Thanksgiving dinner, the Peter T. Paul’s class of Advanced Food and Beverage Management hosted its semi annual Gourmet Dinner and Brunch, presenting a delectable international experience for supportive UNH students, alumni and family members.
The Memorial Union Building Theater 1 welcomed quite a crowd on Wednesday night, Nov. 30, as Matt Kanner was welcomed to UNH*s campus. The current publisher of The Sound: Independent News for the Seacoast, Kanner addressed the attendees as part of an Office of Student Involvement and Leadership (OSIL) workshop about the topic of how to avoid fake news.
The UNH Graduate School has over 100 programs on campus, according to Assistant Dean Dovev Levine. In those programs, he said that there are about “150 to maybe 175 students” doing accelerated master’s programs during their senior undergraduate year.
It all started with a student inquiry at the UNH open forum hosted by President Mark Huddleston and Provost Nancy Targett on Nov. 2 in the Memorial Union Building’s (MUB) Granite State Room (GSR).
UNH Health Services will be holding free HIV testing on Thursday, Dec. 1 as a part of World AIDS Day (WAD). WAD was created in order to raise awareness and funds for HIV/AIDS research, and to give individuals around the world opportunities to unite in the fight against HIV by showing support for those inflicted with the virus and helping to commemorate those who have died.
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