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.
Feature Article
Jacqueline Cordell, Inquiry student editor
Twenty-five and still going Strong: An Inside Look at the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research
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Kate Early (Mentors: Udo Schlentrich and Dana Krauskopf)
Hamanasi Eco-Resort: Examining the Profit, Planet, and People Bottom Lines of Sustainability
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Nicholas Landry (Mentor: Todd Gross)
Using Nanoindentation to Investigate the Effect of Manufacturing Pressure on the Microstructure and Stiffness of Pyrolytic Carbon
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Kristen Manning (Mentors: Joan Earle Hahn and Owen Barr)
A Community Approach: Improving the Health and Wellness of People with Learning Disabilities in Northern Ireland
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William Matern (Mentor: Gregory Chini)
Understanding the Life Sciences with Mathematical Biology: An Effort to
Describe the Lungs of Mammals
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Cory McKenzie (Mentor: Cathy A. Frierson)
Refuge from Communism: A Monastery in New York Preserves Russian Orthodoxy
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Lowell Mower (Mentor: John Resch)
The 1754 Excise on Spirituous Liquors: Taxes, Political Rhetoric, and the English Concept of Liberty in Eighteenth-century Colonial Massachusetts
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Matthew Richards
(Mentor: Karen Collins)
Coaching Education and a Survey of Youth Sport Coaches’ Perceptions of their Coaching Efficacy
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Erica Bertolotto
When Culture Shock can be Good for You
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Theresa L. Conn
The Plight of the Piping Plover: My Summer of Shorebird Conservation and Public Outreach at Cape Cod National Seashore
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Nicholas J. Mantis
Getting down to the Business of Science: How Undergraduate Research Derailed my Career Plan and put me on a Path to Professional Success
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Max Mehlman
Under the Influence of Undergraduate Research
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