UNH’s 14th annual Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) takes place in Durham and Manchester  through April 27, 2013, featuring hundreds of UNH students from all academic disciplines presenting the results of their research, scholarship, engagement, and creative works.  

Students work with faculty mentors to conduct scholarly inquiry into topics that intrigue them, engaging in a process that teaches creative thinking and problem solving within their chosen disciplines.

The Environmental Protection Agency honored UNH with its Food Recovery Challenge Achievement Award last week, recognizing the university for cutting food waste significantly below the previous years’ levels. UNH was among seven New England colleges and universities to receive the award

After an exhaustive four-day review by two members of the national Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) the UNH Police Department learned late last week that it continues to meet professional law enforcement standards and assessors will recommend the agency be awarded reaccreditation.

The Employee Clinic at Health Services, which has allowed UNH faculty and staff and their over-18 year old dependents to receive medical care on campus during the workday, is celebrating its first year of operation with an open house on April 24. If you haven’t had a need to use the clinic since it opened in 2012, the event will be a great time to see all it has to offer. 

Meanwhile, here’s a look at some of the numbers. 

Two forums will take place during the week of April 8 to provide an overview of the workplace flexibility program that provides eligible employees the opportunity to have a nontraditional work schedule.

Eligibility varies depending on circumstances; not all jobs lend themselves to flexible workplace arrangements.

There’s a new seaweed in town, a brown, bulbous balloon befitting the nickname “sea potato.” Its New England debut was spotted by two UNH plant biology graduate students; now researchers are keeping a close eye on the sea potato’s progress to determine whether there is cause for alarm.

Graduate students Lindsay Green and Hannah Traggis discovered the rapid southern expansion of Colpomenia peregrina, also known as sea potato or oyster thief, during a SCUBA diving trip in Kittery, Maine, in the summer of 2011.

The N.H. Author Series, hosted by the Friends of Dimond Library, will present writer Willem Lange Sunday, April 14, 2013, at 2 p.m. in the Dimond Library 5th Floor Reading Room. Local author and humorist Rebecca Rule will interview Lange in front of a live audience.

It’s time to show your health.

The annual Peeps competition at Health Services is a fun way to let the world know what being healthy means to you. And, if your entry wins, you’ll get a great prize.

All you need to do is create a diorama made from marshmallow Peeps that has the popular candy participating in some type of healthy activity. Go it alone or get a team together. The only rule is that all the key players in the diorama have to be made from Peeps. Other candies can be used as props or accessories.

Entries due by midnight April 14.

Family love, family secrets, and family mythologies are at the heart of the new novel by Tim Barretto, a professor of community leadership at the University of New Hampshire’s Thompson School of Applied Science. “A Family’s Loss” is the second novel by Barretto, who is co-founder of the school’s community leadership program.