Army ROTC cadets spent Oct. 25 and 26 conducting field training exercises on campus due to budget constraints that kept them from traveling to Fort Devens where the maneuvers traditionally take place.  

Some 85 UNH student cadets dressed in uniform spent Friday afternoon and Saturday in College Woods, participating in day and night missions, practicing land navigation, and working their way through an obstacle course. 

Information on UNH’s Army ROTC can be read here.

Online 2014 Benefits Open Enrollment Available Through Nov. 1

From now through Nov. 1 employees can go online and make changes to their medical and dental plans, opting to switch health care plans, open or add funds to a flexible spending account (FSA) or change the particulars of life insurance benefits.

Doing nothing means your existing core benefits will remain the same in 2014. Changes take effect Jan. 1, 2014.

Two economists at UNH have submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of an effort by Overstock.com and Amazon.com to halt a New York state Internet sales tax effort. 

Neil Niman

A survey on workplace bullying has been sent to more than 4,300 UNH employees who are being asked to take the poll to help determine the extent that bullying exists on campus.

Representatives from the OS, PAT, EE and lecturers councils formed a task force and have been working on a bullying policy for many months. They developed and dispersed the survey as another step in the process. Employees are asked to take the survey to provide baseline data on bullying at UNH.

Microbiologists at UNH have received a $716,000 to study the evolution of beneficial microbes by examining the relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid and a bacterium that helps it avoid predators by emitting light. Cheryl Whistler and Vaughn Cooper, both associate professors of microbiology and genetics, are the investigators on the three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. 

The N.H. Author Series, hosted by the Friends of Dimond Library, will present author Eric Pinder Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013, at 2 p.m. in the Dimond Library 5th Floor Reading Room. Local author and humorist Rebecca Rule will interview Pinder in front of a live audience.

Pinder is the author of the children’s books “Cat in the Clouds” and “If All the Animals Came Inside” and the nonfiction works “North to Katahdin” and “Tying Down the Wind." Two others, “Among the Clouds” and “Life at the Top" are about Mount Washington.