Inquiry authors are UNH undergraduates or UNH graduates who conducted research during their undergraduate years. Many received grants from the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research.
A faculty mentor or principal teacher worked closely with each student researcher, assisting in the design, carrying out, evaluating and writing up of the project.
Click on the names of the authors below to learn more about the authors in this edition of Inquiry and the mentors who guided them.
Laura Roach, Inquiry student editor
Harmonious World: The Confucius Institute and Asian Studies at the University of New Hampshire
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Tobi Afolayan (Mentor: Cliff Brown)
Coming To America: The Social and Economic Mobility of African Immigrants in the United States
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Chris Celi (Mentor: Bruce Elmslie)
Redefining Capitalism: The Changing Role of the Federal Reserve throughout the Financial Crisis (2006-2010)
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Michael Cochran-Boucher (Mentor: Patricia Halpin)
Eating For Two: A Study of the Effects of Obesity upon the Health of Pregnant Women and their Infants
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Dan Foley (Mentor: Karsten Pohl)
Finding a Safe, Efficient Method of Producing High Quality, Non-corrosive Scanning Probe Tips for Scanning Tunneling Microscopes
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Joshua French (Mentor: Eberhard Möbius)
Recalibrating the Star Sensor: From the IBEX Satellite to the RENU Rocket
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Lauren Kasparian (Mentors: Gene Harkless and Gabriel Boakye)
Sleeping in Safety: A Study of Nurse Anesthetists in Ghana
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Elise Koob (Mentors: Molly Lutcavage and Shane Griffiths)
The Quest for Fisheries Sustainability: Age, Growth and Maturity of Golden Trevally (gnathanodon speciosus) in Australia
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Brian McConnell (Mentor: Ihab H. Farag)
Producing Biodiesel from Microalgae Grown in Municipal Wastewater from Dover, New Hampshire
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Ella Nilsen (Mentor: Cathy Frierson)
No Longer a Secret: Uncovering My Family’s Russian Jewish Heritage
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John Rolfe (Mentor: Andrew J. Houtenville)
A Tale of Two Vices: An Applied Economic Analysis of Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption
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Justin Thomas Schubert (Mentor: Benjamin Cole)
Big Bank, Small Country: Switzerland, the Financial Crisis and the European Union
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Rachael Butterfield (Mentors: Gene Harkless, Carol Williams-Barnard, Achiamma Singh)
Colorful Perspectives: Caring for Sick Children in Pune, India
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George Clark and Morgan O’Neill
Grounded, in High Orbit: Undergraduate Space Research at the University of New Hampshire
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Amy Ma (Mentor: Barbara Prudhomme White)
Expect the Unexpected: Researching Pregnant Women’s Social Supports
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