Features & Highlights

Tuesday, May 15

Operation Can Tab, a newly minted club on campus, focuses on collecting can tabs on and off campus, to be donated to Shriners Hospitals for Children. Shriners then sells the tabs to recycling companies and uses the proceeds to pay for the expensive surgeries and recoveries for sick and injured children. Shriners operates 22 non-profit medical facilities across North America.

Tuesday, May 15

Siblings are an enigma. Living and growing up together, continually competing and driving each other crazy at times. It does not get much easier when identical twins are involved. For the Lassows and Sweeneys, it is hard to imagine one without the other.

Thursday, May 10

View the information and schedule for the 2018 Commencement Ceremony at the Rindge Campus. The 53rd Annual Ceremony will be streamed LIVE courtesy of the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication.

Friday, May 04

The magazine of Raven Nation has been released for the Spring of 2018. Read about the new Library Café, Sigma Tau Delta's national recognition, grants supporting the University, and what our students and Alumni are doing.

Thursday, May 03

Franklin Pierce University is pleased to announce a $233,800 grant from the Davis Educational Foundation established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc. The grant will support the University’s Initiative for Digital Education for Accelerated Learning (IDEAL) and will be awarded over three years to assist with the launch and implementation of this new program that will benefit undergraduate students’ digital preparedness.

Tuesday, May 01

Franklin Pierce University is pleased to acknowledge Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) faculty member, Dr. Joshua Cleland for his two most recent awards. Dr. Cleland is recognized as a recipient of both the Catherine Worthingham Fellows of American Physical Therapy Award and the Dorothy Baethke- Eleanor J. Carlin Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching. Both of these prestigious awards recognize Dr. Cleland’s dedication to both teaching in academia, practice and research in the field of physical therapy.

Friday, April 27

On Friday, April 13, President Kim Mooney welcomed nearly 150 women to the Rindge campus for the New Hampshire Women in Higher Education Leadership (NHWHEL) Spring Conference. After an initial “icebreaker” networking exercise, the attendees broke into one of four information sessions: “Women in Leadership: Professional and Personal Balance in Higher Education”, “Navigating Institutions of Higher Education as a Woman of Color”, “Change? We’ve Always Done it this Way!” or “Mentoring: Mentors for Leaders, Time Commitments, and Reverse Mentoring.”

Thursday, April 26

Please join us at The Fitzwater Honors as we celebrate those who embody the Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication's mission to educate leaders of conscience in public communication, on Friday, April 27.

Wednesday, April 25

Franklin Pierce University and the Department of Athletics welcomed Special Olympics New Hampshire to campus on Saturday, April 7, as the latter held a practice day for 50 of its Special Olympic athletes.

Thursday, April 19

The Rindge Campus was abuzz Tuesday, April 17, as we celebrated a tradition of great scholarly and creative works by both students and faculty at our ninth annual Academic Showcase.

Monday, April 16

Franklin Pierce University is offering students of Mount Ida College scholarships and an expedited admissions path for those currently enrolled and for those students who had planned to attend the Massachusetts liberal arts college that announced its sudden closure last week.

Tuesday, April 10

Franklin Pierce University will celebrate the scholarly and creative work of its very best students and our faculty during the 2018 Academic Showcase on Wednesday, April 17, 9pm – 3pm on our Rindge Campus.