From the Scottish Highlands to streets of New York City, the Department of Theatre & Dance plans an ambitious and memorable 2012-2013 season. 

Most notably is the spotlight shown on up and coming undergraduate playwrights. Sponsored and conceived of by alum, Mike O’Malley ’88, The John C. Edwards Undergraduate Prize Plays pays homage to O’Malley’s mentor, Professor Emeritus John C. Edwards, and provides UNH undergraduate students the opportunity to create their own works for the main stage. The winning plays, selected by a committee including both O’Malley and Edwards, will be featured in the final slot of the season, April 17-21, 2013.  

As a continuation of the programs started last year by Cultural Stages: The Woodward Drama and Dance Initiative, the department will bring back master percussionist and dancer Theo Martey of Ghana to teach a master class in African dance during the fall semester. Martey will create an original work, performed by the...

Tablets, mobile devices and cloud-based services are tools spreading through schools, businesses and communities. UNH Manchester will host a free discussion exploring the two current major technology topics in k-12 schools and universities.

“Computing Showcase in Education” will be held on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 6 p.m. in UNH Manchester’s third floor auditorium at 400 Commercial Street. The session is offered as part of UNH Manchester’s fall Sidore Lecture Series: “Advances in Technology.” The series is funded by the Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation and coordinated by the computing technology department at UNH Manchester.

How are mobile devices being used in educational organizations? Listen to discussion around specific examples of ways the devices are being used in schools across NH in all grades. What types of projects students use them for, how teachers and staff use them for productivity, and what pros and "challenges" are faced in using mobile devices in our...

The New Hampshire Innovation Research Center (NHIRC) at UNH has awarded a Granite State Technology Innovation Grant to ArgenTech Solutions, Inc. (AgTS) to help develop a high-performance, photoluminescent powder coating additive suitable for advanced safety and military applications. AgTS specializes in identifying emerging, innovative...

Provost John Aber has announced the members of a search committee who will recruit and appoint a dean of the College of Health and Human Services. Neil Vroman is serving as interim dean.

The search committee includes:

Heather Barber, Kinesiology

Rosemary Caron, Health Management and Policy

Pamela DiNapoli,  Nursing

Dan Innis (co-chair), WSBE, Dean

Jerry Marx, Social Work

Amy Plante, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Josephine Porter, Institute for Health Policy and Practice

Janet Sable (co-chair), Recreation Management and Policy

Michele Stone, CHHS Business Services

Corinna Tucker, Family Studies

The College of Health and Human Services offers undergraduate and graduate instruction leading to baccalaureate and master degrees in communication sciences and disorders; family studies; health...

A few weeks ago, associate professor of music Robert Eshbach found out that the house that belonged to Charles Ives (American composer, 1874-1954) was about to be sold and possibly torn down. He couldn’t stand by as this great piece of American history was lost.

“Charles Ives is our great American composer,” says Eshbach. “With an emphasis on ‘American.’ His music memorializes places in New England, as well as people like Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott. It speaks to the American character. It is full of popular songs, hymn tunes, etc.—life as it was lived in 19th and early 20th century America.”

Ives had done much of his composing in his Arts and Crafts style house in West Redding, Connecticut.

“The Ives family has lived in the house ever since but has kept parts of it, including Ives’s music room, much as he left it when he died. Until just recently, his hat and canes were still on the desk, together with his music and papers. His piano is there… it’s sort of a...

A UNH professor is among a group of researchers who will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the worldwide essay contest the Laws of Life Essay Contest to determine if the project, sponsored by the Templeton Foundation, has a lasting impact on participants.

Victoria Banyard, professor of psychology, will join researchers at Sewanee University and Marquette University to conduct the study, which has been funded by a more than $1.1 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to Sewanee University.

“We know from past research that narratives about our lives are a component of well-being and also of changing our behavior in positive ways. We know that even relatively brief interventions that involve writing and narrative can have a positive impact on mood, health, and behavior. This study is an opportunity to investigate how a narrative exercise presented at a key moment in the lifespan, the transition from adolescence to adulthood, may act in conjunction with other...

Take just 20 minutes to find out how healthy you are and you’ll be rewarded with a $50 Visa gift card for taking steps to improve your health and well-being.

Earn your reward by completing the Harvard Pilgrim health questionnaire between Sept. 12 and Oct.15. You’ll gain valuable information about your health and lifestyle, and be able to identify areas for improvement. You’ll receive an immediate, easy-to-read summary profile, and information on what you can do to reduce risks by changing specific health behaviors.

If you’re a Harvard Pilgrim subscriber and you say “yes” to question 50 on the questionnaire, a certified Harvard Pilgrim personal health coach will contact you to help you plan and achieve health improvement goals.

To complete the questionnaire, have your height, weight, blood pressure, total and HDL cholesterol levels, and blood glucose level handy.

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