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Leah Richards Starts New Leg of her SNHU Journey in Both Student Success and the Learning Center

The new school year brings changes for everyone, students and faculty alike. For some, however, these changes are more drastic than others and bring about a change in title, office and mindset. For Leah Richards, the 2017-2018 school year brought brand new positions, challenges and goals that needed to be set to ensure the success of SNHU Students. Going into her eighth year at
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Getting Ready for Fetty Wap and Homecoming 2017: Destination SNHU

Attention, Penmen! SNHU will be hosting its Homecoming Weekend from Friday October 13 to Sunday, October 15. To kick off the weekend, CAPE will be sponsoring their annual concert, featuring artist Fetty Wap with opener and SNHU alumni Matt Corman. The Student Government Association (SGA) will be sponsoring a pump-up event prior to the concert located in the Athletic Complex at 6 p.m. for
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Restaurant Spotlight: Roots Café Offers Creative Dishes in a Discreet Setting

When it comes to local eateries, sometimes the best food can be found at the most unique establishments. From the outside, Robie’s Country Store, located at 9 Riverside St. in Hooksett, is seen as a humble red building. Inside the store, a little café called Roots is cranking out creative breakfast and lunch items in a homey, quaint space. The structure was built in
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Voice Actor Troy Baker on Career Development and “Middle-earth: Shadow of War”

If you’ve picked up a video game in the last fifteen years it’s likely that, somewhere along the way, you’ve heard Troy Baker’s voice. With over 300 individual voice credits to his name Baker has been a prolific figure in the voice acting industry with lead roles in The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite, Uncharted 4 and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. But it wasn’t
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VIDEO: Take Back the Night 2017

This week, the SNHU Deborah L. Coffin Women's Center hosted Southern New Hampshire University's eighth annual Take Back the Night event and march. If you couldn't make it to this year's event, our staff went behind the scenes interviewing director of the Women's Center Brooke Gilmore, Women's Center staff members Amy Mercedes, Dee Dube and Jasmine McFarlin, and poetry performer Olivia Gatwood. If you'd
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SNHU Around the World: An Inside Look into SNHU’s Refugee Initiatives in Rwanda

Bright and early the campus opens, class starts at 2:45 p.m., and then there’s some time to do homework. This is the same Monday through Friday for a group of SNHU students, except these students aren’t at the Manchester, NH campus. They are in Karongi, Rwanda. In Kigali and the Kiziba refugee camp, Kepler, a nonprofit higher education program, helps African students (both refugee
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Welcome Back!

Welcome back! That’s right, it’s that time of the year again where we, the Penmen Press, welcomes all students, faculty and staff back to campus with our annual Welcome Back Issue.  Whether this is your first year, your last or somewhere in-between, we hope that you’re ready for it. This upcoming year is one that we at the Penmen Press are particularly excited about,
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How to SNHU: Finding Community Service Opportunities

The Center for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL), located in the the Green Center, is the place to go if you are looking to do any aspect of community service. The office has three sections to it, including Service Learning, Service Projects and Alternative Break. Service Learning is connected to classes at SNHU. Many sociology classes are service learning classes. This means that you have