My Nipissing

More than 600 fans braved stormy early winter weather to support key mental health initiatives and take in some intense Lakers hockey action for Break the Ice on Mental Health.

Dr. Mike DeGagné has been reappointed as President and Vice-Chancellor of Nipissing University. DeGagné was reappointed as Nipissing’s president in a special meeting of the university’s Board of Governors on December 7 following the recommendation of the Reappointment Committee for the President and Vice-Chancellor. He will begin his second consecutive five-year term on January 1, 2018.

Nipissing University welcomes Dr. Brett Buchanan, director of the School of Environment and associate professor of Philosophy at Laurentian University, to campus for a Master of Environmental Studies/Master of Environmental Sciences seminar on Thursday, December 8, at 7 p.m. in the Small Cafeteria.

This is the third time this event has been held at Nipissing. In each of the previous Write for Rights events, over 50 letters were written by students, staff and faculty in support of prisoners unjustly jailed and subject to torture.