Faculty Travel Reports 
Each year, the Center for International Education awards competitive grants for faculty international development activities from funds provided by the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Dain LaRoche
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology - Brazil
"The purpose of this visit was to share our respective research findings, develop a collaborative project on the role of leg strength and the biomechanics of gait in the elderly, and to foster exchange between our two programs." More >>
Heidi Asbjornsen
Associate Professor of Natural Resources - Costa Rica
"...I traveled to Costa Rica to visit potential field sites for a future UNH J-term course in Tropical Ecology and to collect preliminary data for a new research project linked to the course." More >>
Joel Hartter
Assistant Professor of Geography/Affiliate Assistant Professor of Natural Resources - Uganda
"While Kibale may be less known than some of the other flagship parks of East Africa, it is an extremely important reserve for biological diversity conservation...Therefore, my task this summer was to find out about how local farmers in Uganda are affected by climate change.." More >>
Gregory McMahon
Associate Professor of History - Turkey
"As the director of the Çadır Höyük Excavation, which has been conducting an ongoing research project since 1993, I spend six to eight weeks in central Anatolia (Turkey) every summer..." More >>
Annie Donahue
Associate Professor/Chairperson—Humanities Division, UNH Manchester Library & Media Services - England and Scotland
"The Northumbria Conference attracts librarian-scholars from across the world to discuss performance measurement from a myriad of perspectives and across the span of academic librarianship, from specific departmental functions to the global need to demonstrate institutional value..." More >>
Eun Kyeong Cho
Assistant Professor of Education - South Korea
"My topic was about the early childhood teacher policy in the United States, focusing on “Recruitment, Preparation, and Retention of Early Childhood Teachers in the U.S.” Other presenters shared their research on early childhood education and care..." More >>
Alynna Lyon
Associate Professor of Political Science - Portugal
"In 1996, Oporto, Portugal was classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The city is one of the oldest within Europe and displays the legacies of the once powerful Portuguese empire, the antiquities of Portuguese culture, as well as a modern urban lifestyle." More >>
Vanessa Druskat, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior - Spain
"I spent three months working with colleagues in the Leadership Development Research Centre at ESADE Business School, at Ramon Lull University in Barcelona, Spain. ESADE is a top ranked business school in Europe..." More >>
Lina Lee, Associate Professor of Spanish - Costa Rica
"Due to the current security situation in Mexico and the travel warning issued by the US State Department, our Puebla summer study abroad program is temporarily inactive. As director of the Puebla program, I was interested in seeking an alternative program for the summer of 2011." More >>
Ben Harris, Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of History - The Netherlands
"Discovering that the psychology department at UU was academically strong and shared our emphases on (a) health psychology and brain-behavior relations, and (b) theoretical and historical bases of psychology, I wanted to find out what I could do to strengthen the ties between UU and UNH." More >>
Paula M. Salvio, Professor of Education - Sicily
"My book focuses on what is perhaps the most iconic high profile form of organized crime – the Italian mafia or mafias – in order to portray an exemplary international anti-crime social movement whose roots are in Sicily and that has been active since the late 1980’s." More >>
Robert C. Scharff, Professor of Philosophy - Italy
"... I presented “Why Heideggerians Can Love their Laptops without Guilt" (soon to be published in Swedish)...at the 2010 International Symposium in Phenomenology, in Perguia, Italy." More >>
Mary Fran T. Malone, Assistant Professor of Political Science - Costa Rica
"My goal was to investigate a series of study abroad opportunities for students, as well as conduct research on Costa Ricans’ reactions to the Central American crime crisis." More >>
Marla Brettschneider, Assistant Professor of Theater - Israel
"In accordance with the new UNH Strategic Plan, my project for this summer trip to Israel and Palestine was interdisciplinary. The project involved original research on Golda Meir’s political life." More >>
Ruth Varner, Research Associate Professor of Earth, Oceans and Space - Sweden
"As a research faculty member, I rarely get the opportunity to visit research sites before I propose a project." More >>
Stephen Trzaskoma, Associate Professor of Classics - Scotland
"This year I was fortunate to be offered associate membership in KYKNOS, an international research group devoted to ancient narrative literatures of the ancient world..." More >>
Nelson Barber, Associate Professor of Hospitality - Italy
"... scholarly meeting of the VDQS chapter of the European Association of Wine Economists represents all European specialists and noted world specialists about wine production, economics and consumer marketing." More >>
Janet Gold, Associate Professor of Spanish - Honduras
"...To gain more first-hand knowledge of the workings of NGOs in Honduras, I spent ten days in Santa Lucía, a village in the mountains outside of Tegucigalpa..." More >>
Sean Moore, Assistant Professor of English - England
"The conference was somewhat daunting for me because I was the only English professor among an international group of economists and financial historians who used a lot more econometric data about the period than I did." More >>
Julie Bryce, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences - Italy
"My motivation to visit Ferrara, Italy, could be put into one word: mantle. Earth’s mantle is its large rocky layer that extends beneath the crust on which we stand down to Earth’s metallic core." More >>
