UNH will present three technologies developed here to some of the world’s leading innovators and investors this week, as representatives from the Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization showcase them at the TechConnect WORLD Summit in Washington, D.C.  

UNH will share its expertise with projects that detect radiation from a safe distance, integrate complex situational data into a visual Web-based image, and produce a class of compounds that are highly stable organic semiconductors.  

Eleanor Abrams has been appointed the executive director for Engagement and Faculty Development. She assumes the position June 1. 

Martha Carlson, coordinator of UNH Forest Watch and a Ph.D. candidate in the natural resources and earth systems science program, was one of six private citizens invited to participate in a White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) panel titled “"Climate Change: Discussion with Small Business Leaders" held last Thursday, April 30 in Washington, D.C.  

The Obama administration held the panel discussion “to receive ideas and recommendations about how to better combat climate change, with a special focus on working through the business community.”  

UNH employees are pumping up their tires and lacing up their sneakers in preparation for the 11^th annual Seacoast Bike/Walk to Work Week next week (May 13 – 17). As in years past, the weeklong celebration of alternative transportation culminates in a free commuter breakfast on the steps of New Hampshire Hall, hosted by the department of kinesiology from 7 – 10am.

The Employee Clinic celebrated its first year of service with chair massages, blood pressure checks and glucose testing during a ribbon cutting ceremony held April 24. Opened in February 2012, the Employee Clinic serves all UNH employees and their dependents aged 18 and over. 

Sarah Maskwa has the same bad reason to participate in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life as many people do: someone she loved very much died of cancer.

Professor Scott Ollinger of the UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) and the department of Natural Resources and the Environment will serve as the first director of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).  

The creative Peep-ole have done it again.

Using marshmallow Peeps, those candy treats that bloom around Easter, they’ve come up with really clever ways to show what being healthy means to them by creating dioramas for Health Services’ 4th Annual Peeps Contest.

The 11 entries garnered more than 300 votes.

This year’s winners in the individual category are:

1st Place: Kristin Onos, graduate student -- “Peeps on Mendums Pond”

2^nd place: Kristin Blackwell, staff, chemistry department --, “Little Blue Peep’s Sustainable Farm”