Andrew Laurie Stangel, adjunct professor of art history at UNH Manchester, has been named the recipient of the college’s 2013 Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award.  Stangel will be recognized at the college’s 28th annual commencement ceremony Thursday, May 16 in Arms Park in Manchester.

 The UNH Adjunct Faculty Award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the college through demonstrated teaching excellence in a minimum of six undergraduate courses. With students who routinely describe his knowledge as “encyclopedic” and “phenomenal,” Stangel’s energy and enthusiasm in his classes is what truly sets him apart. 

Having spent decades in the U.S. and abroad lecturing at colleges, universities, art museums, and galleries, Stangel’s knowledge and passion for art and history engages and excites students. His courses are illustrated with his vast firsthand knowledge and experience of art-historical topics and his students’ are the...

Senior Jenny Jing has been selected as an Alvan T. – Viola D. Fuller Junior Research Fellow by the American Cancer Society. The prestigious Fuller Fellowships give undergraduate students from New England an opportunity to participate in laboratories performing cancer-related research for 10 weeks in the summer of 2013.  

Jing, a biomedical sciences major and Honors Program student from Durham, will work in the Massachusetts General Hospital lab of Andrea McClatchey, professor of pathology at the Harvard Medical School. The fellowship provides Jing with a stipend of $4,500.  

With her sights set on attending medical school to pursue a joint M.D./Ph.D., Jing calls the Fuller Fellowship a dream come true. She got the news while in Rudman Hall, home of several UNH research laboratories, and “I...

I.  Roll – The following senators were absent:  Baldwin, Connelly, Guo, Harrist, Jonas, Kaen, Kazura, LaRoche, Mebert, Minocha, Safford, Shannon and Simos.  Guests were John Aber and Christina Bellinger.

II.  Remarks by and questions to the provost – The provost said that, on the issue of Thompson School course renumbering, there have been some very good conversations among the COLSA dean, the Thompson School faculty, and the provost.  He added that the senate chair and vice chair will speak with the Deans’ Council tomorrow, about the proportion of tenure-track faculty.  The provost recently spoke with the Lecturers’ Council.  Today he expressed the hope that the Faculty Senate would include the different types of non-tenure-track faculty in the Faculty Senate.

III.  Remarks by and questions...

U.S. lodging executives were less optimistic about general business conditions in March than the prior month, according to the UNH Lodging Executives Sentiment Index (LESI) for the current month ending March 2013. The index decreased from 72.6 in February 2013 to 68.8 in March 2013.  

“This decrease results from lodging executives’ less-than-positive opinions of the present general business conditions for their properties and for general business conditions 12 months in the future. However, they were cautiously optimistic about expectations for room reservations looking forward 12months,” said Nelson Barber, associate professor of hospitality management, who manages the index. 

Forty-four percent of lodging executives indicated current business conditions were good, a decline from 52 percent last period, while 56 percent indicated conditions were normal, up from 43 percent during the same period. None of the executives indicated such conditions were bad,...

The angel investor market in 2012 continued the upward trend started in 2010 in investment dollars and in the number of investments, albeit at a moderate pace, according to the 2012 Angel Market Analysis released by the Center for Venture Research at UNH.

Total investments in 2012 were $22.9 billion, an increase of 1.8 percent over 2011 when investments totaled $22.5 billion. A total of 67,030 entrepreneurial ventures received angel funding in 2012, an increase of 1.2 percent over 2011 investments, and the number of active investors in 2012 was 268,160 individuals, a decline of 15.8 percent from 2011.

“The small increase in both total dollars and the number of investments resulted in a deal size for 2012 that was virtually unchanged from 2011. These data indicate that while fewer angels were active...

I.  Roll – The following senators were absent:  Baldwin, Connelly, Fagerberg, Harrist, Hartter, Minocha, Scherr, Shore, Simos, Whistler, and Woods.  A guest was John Aber.

II.  Remarks by and questions to the provost – The provost thanked the senate for approving the proposal for the marine school.  He also said that the senate chair and vice chair will meet with the deans on April 16 to discuss the report of the Professional Standards Committee on the impact of non-tenure-track faculty on tenure-track faculty and governance activities.  The provost suggested that the Faculty Senate might discuss representation for non-tenure-track faculty.  A senator asked if non-tenure-track faculty should communicate their questions or concerns with their governance council which would communicate with the provost; and the provost agreed and added that the...