Nipissing University is hosting a benefit concert featuring Aboriginal musicians Derek Miller and Digging Roots, as well as local artists Holly Cunningham and Eric Traleven, to raise funds to support the housing crisis in Attawapiskat and raise awareness and understanding of challenges faced by First Nations communities in Canada.

Nipissing University’s Aboriginal Student Links program has been named an early entry winner by the Inspiring Approaches to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Learning Changemakers Initiative.

On Thursday, December 15, 2011, Nipissing student Kevin Salzman became 1 of 7000 medal bearers in the Rick Hansen Relay that passed through Sudbury to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Hansen’s famous Man in Motion Tour.