2007 Home Page Photo Archive

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2006 Archive

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Alumni

Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter will recognize the achievements of two service-learning programs, Project Mentor and Seacoast Reads. Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m. Murkland.

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http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2007/apr/lw06reads.cfm

We'll all get old (if we're lucky) and these tips from alumni can help make our senior years golden.

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http://unhmagazine.unh.edu/f06/aging.html

Faculty Profiles

He's one part I.M. Pei, one part Bob the Builder, and a dash Nick Adams. Meet Tom March.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/excellence.cfm?image=march

How do you manage superstars making $30 million? A.R. "Venky" Venkatachalam is working on the answer.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/excellence.cfm?image=venkatachalam

John Sparrow has two great passions: teaching psychology and college hockey. "When I began undergraduate school, I had no idea of what I'd be 'when I grew up.'"

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/excellence.cfm?image=sparrow

"The most important aspect of both teaching and research is, to me, it's so much fun," Donald Hadwin says. "I feel in my heart I haven't worked a day in my life."

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/uwide.cfm?image=hadwin

Liza Finkel's interest as an educator surfaced while she was perched next to a Wyoming rocky outcropping, listening to her students enthusiastically describe their discoveries.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/excellence.cfm?image=finkel

Noted for his intelligence and admired for his scholarship, James Krasner is hailed for his ability to cause frequent and uncontrollable eruptions of laughter.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/excellence.cfm?image=krasner

"As a teacher, I always think—'some other parent wants me to do for their child what I want them to do for mine,'" says Matt Chaston.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/excellence.cfm?image=chaston

Richard Johnson has learned an important lesson. "It's OK for students to think you're a little eccentric," he says. "If you're not having fun in the classroom, your students aren't having fun."

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/excellence.cfm?image=johnson

Michael Middleton prefers to focus on the energy part of adolescence, but he isn't one to shy away from the angst of it either.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/uwide.cfm?image=middleton

Materials Science Professor Carmela Amato-Wierda explains Slinkys and other objects to students in the new Parents Association Lecture Hall at Kingsbury.

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http://www.unh.edu/academic-affairs/discovery/dialogue/ud-wierda.html

"I like the bigger classes and engaging my students. When there is mutual engagement in teaching between a professor and his or her students, there's nothing quite like it." Students keep Jim Tucker going.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/uwide.cfm?image=tucker

It could be said that Professor Jerilee Zezula's remarkable career of service was ignited in the sixth grade by her love of a wayward cocker spaniel.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/uwide.cfm?image=zezula

Heather Turner knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life the day she graduated from college—teaching and researching stress and mental health.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/uwide.cfm?image=turner

Steve Wright is engaged in a struggle—he might call it a battle. He advocates for the importance of physical education in our schools.

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http://www.unh.edu/facultyexcellence/2006/excellence.cfm?image=wright

After preventing chronic illnesses such as asthma, heart disease, and cancer for the city of Manchester, Rosemary Caron is now head of the Master of Public Health program.

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http://hhsreport.hhsonline.com/hhsonline/apps/hhsreport/showcatstories.asp?catid=3

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Don Murray is remembered by students, readers, and friends.

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http://www.unh.edu/journalism/donmurray.htm

General Interest

Two former United States presidents join the UNH community to honor the class of 2007. Saturday, May 19.

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http://www.unh.edu/commencement/

Commencement video, speeches and photos.

http://www.unh.edu/president/jbonnienewman/speeches/0507commencement.html

Friday, May 18, is Bike/Walk to Work Day. Join other commuters for breakfast at the Whittemore Center, next to the Wildcat sculpture.

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http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2007/May/09bike.cfm

Want people excited about your lecture, event, concert, or happening? Post it on the campus calendar.

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http://calendar.unh.edu/

Cooperative Extension has a new interactive Web site about caring for grass in home lawns as well as in municipal and commercial landscapes such as athletic fields, cemeteries, golf courses and office parks.

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http://extension.unh.edu/agric/turf/turfipm.htm

Save the energy. Save the World. Become a climate and energy hero! The Energy Waste Watch Challenge starts March 20.

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http://www.unh.edu/etf/challenge.html

Will your town meeting consider mosquito control? Evaluating the 2007 threat from Eastern Equine Encephalitis.

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http://extension.unh.edu/

John Aber, chair of the Energy Task Force, shows off a Honda Civic gas-electric hybrid, now available for rent through the Durham Enterprise Rent-A-Car office.

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http://www.unh.edu/etf/enterprisehybridrentals.html

The answer might surprise you. Stocks are low at the food pantry due to the distribution of 1,753 pounds of food over the holiday season. Help replenish the shelves.

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http://www.cornucopia.unh.edu/

It could be Seasonal Affective Disorder that is running you down. Let Health Services help you with light therapy.

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http://www.unh.edu/health-services/ohep/sad-lighttherapy_main.html

Undergraduate Outdoor Education students have the opportunity to learn advanced rock climbing skills at world-class sites, such as Acadia National Park.

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http://www.shhs.unh.edu/kin_oe

NAACP of the Seacoast President Fred Ross honored the admissions staff for promoting diversity. Efforts include the opening of a multicultural center and the increase in enrollment of minority students.

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http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2007/Jan/10diversity.cfm

Research

A team of COLSA researchers is investigating whether the chemical flame retardants found in hundreds of materials we use daily might be related to the climbing rate of obesity in the United States.

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http://www.colsainsight.org/colsainsight/index.asp

What was the relationship between the Maya and the inhabitants of Teotihuacan, the great society of central Mexico? New archaeological findings help unravel the mystery.

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http://www.unh.edu/inquiryjournal/07/articles/ferguson.html

Breastfeeding and the good fats in Omega-3 fatty acids help new moms fight depression, which affects anywhere from 10 percent to 20 percent of postpartum women.

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http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2007/may/lw02moms.cfm

Despite the obvious differences between languages, we use common linguistic features to signal our writing situation—be it a newspaper article, an e-mail, or a blog.

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http://www.unh.edu/inquiryjournal/07/articles/wood.html

"I find research to be most compelling when it's focused on practical problems, and it leads to solutions that will make a difference in people's lives."

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http://www.unh.edu/research/

Using the X-Ray Telescope on a solar satellite called Hinode, students at the Space Science Center study high-energy plasma in the Sun’s atmosphere, like this 10-million-degree material. Learn more at Graduate Research Conference, Thursday, April 19.

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http://www.gradschool.unh.edu/grc.html

AIRMAP director Bob Talbot has spent the last 25 years studying the thousands of compounds routinely found in the great soup of chemicals we call "air"?

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http://www.unh.edu/research/

Multibeam sonar collects more than 50 million soundings in one hour. How do you translate so much information into a chart of the ocean bottom?

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http://www.unh.edu/research/l_mayer.html

Pigeons and humans use similar visual cues to identify objects, a finding that could have promising implications in the development of novel technologies.

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http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2007/feb/lw19pigeon.cfm

A rocket carrying a unique, spinning camera built at UNH was launched from Alaska February 12 and soared 460 miles above Earth to photograph a phenomenon known as pulsating aurora.

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http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2007/Feb/14rocket.cfm

From satellites to "Bucky balls," undergrads in physics have a long history of research that benefits UNH and beyond.

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http://www.physics.unh.edu/academics/undergradprogram/ughighlights.html

Staff Profiles

Students

Come to the URC Naked Arts—Creativity Exposed! event for an enlightening matinee of performance and introspection. Thursday, April 26, 3:30-6:30 p.m., Hennessy Theatre.

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http://www.unh.edu/urc/events.html

"I quickly realized that the perceptions I held of China before arriving were almost all completely wrong. Rather than seeing armed officers and Communist flags on every corner, I saw instead New York City on steroids."

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http://unh.edu/inquiryjournal/07/articles/pratt.html

Between 1880 and 1930 more than 27 million people entered the United States. Hear their stories in song starting April 13 at the Johnson Theatre.

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http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2007/Mar/28ellis.cfm

Dancers take flight at Johnson Theatre. Dance double bill of Les Sylphides and Pirates March 28-April 1.

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http://www.learn2.unh.edu/

The Northeast Passage Wildcats, the new quadriplegic rugby team, hosted its first tournament Sunday, March 18, 2007.

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http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2007/mar/ka12rugby.cfm

Student Senate is the voice of the student body, representing the opinions of the students to the faculty, staff, and administration, as well as the University community and State Legislature.

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http://www.unh.edu/student-senate/

Whittemore School students visit Hero's Square during their semester in Hungary.

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http://www.wsbe.unh.edu/economics/Budapest.shtml