Winter Break

It's winter break week in New Hampshire and at Pierce Law! A New England tradition that just happens to be a boon for the Granite State's winter sports industry. But, hey, we're for it. So sleep in on Monday. Tuesday go for a walk, shop, and warm up with a hot chocolate or coffee on Main Street. Go skiing on fresh powder Wednesday. See the Robot Parade on Thursday. Leap for joy on Friday. Study for Monday's exam on Friday and Saturday and get some rest on Sunday!

 

Monday, February 25

Assistant Director of Admissions Barbara Wilson is in the Bay Area to represent Pierce Law at the San Francisco Law School Forum.

Professor Peter Wright will be attending a New Hampshire Mortgage Forum at the Legislative Office Building on State Street with Congressman Paul Hodes and Andrew Olszowy of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to discuss the application of Truth in Lending Regulation Z as it relates to the mortgage credit crunch and the Fed's efforts on alternative mortgages.
 

Tuesday, February 26

Professor Buzz Scherr is at Wofford College in Spartanburg, SC through Thursday, teaching an honors biology seminar and a bioethics seminar. He wil give a school-wide address entitled, "Do You Know Where Your DNA Is? Genetics, Privacy & The Constitution."

 

Wednesday, February 27

Ski Trip! Concord Recreation Department sponsors a ski trip to Cannon Mountain.

 

Thursday, February 28

Director of Graduate Programs Debbie Beauregard and Professor Karen Hersey are in San Diego through Saturday attending the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) 2008 meeting as an exhibitor representing Pierce Law.

Robot Parade! See the robots that the children made - at the Verizon Center in Manchester at the FIRST Robotics Competition today through Saturday. The event is free to the public, and the finals are on Saturday. FIRST is a high school level robotics competition that began here in New Hampshire more than 10 years ago, and was founded by local inventor Dean Kamen. A FIRST team consists of students, teachers, and volunteer engineers and mentors. There will be 48 teams at the NH regional, which is one of almost 50 regionals around the country. FIRST events are exciting, intense and loud, so you may want to bring earplugs. The robots this year can weigh up to 120 lbs, and measure up to 6 feet tall. There will be robot racing, "shotput" and more!

 

Friday, February 29

Leap Day: Happy Birthday to leaplings Ja Rule, celebrating his 7th birthday, and motivational guru Tony Robbins, celebrating his 11th birthday.

Professor Karl Jorda delivers the 2008 Foulston Siefkin Lecture on the thirtieth anniversary of this lecture series at Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas. He will present a talk on "Patent/Trade Secret Complementariness - An Unsuspected Synergism," which will also be published in the next issue of the Washburn Law Journal. Previous Foulston Siefkin lecturers include Judge Alex Kozinski, Dean Mark Sargent and Professors Jeffrey Rosen, Marc Steinberg and Erwin Chemerinsky.

 

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