UNH Research 2012 - Engineering & Physical Sciences
        A digest of the year’s research news from the University of New Hampshire | ||||||
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ADVANCE Program Awards Grants to Women in Leadership, Collaborations in Science
http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2012/Jul/25advance.cfm
http://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2012/08/advance-program-awards-grants-women-leadership-collaborations-science
New grants will help three female faculty members continue critical research while assuming leadership roles within UNH. Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Julia Bryce, Professor of Civil Engineering Jennifer Jacobs, and Associate Professor of Political Science Alynna Lyon have received 2012 Karen Von Damm Leadership Development Grants from the UNH ADVANCE program.
Related Research Areas: Health, Behavioral & Social Sciences
Commercialization Growth Celebrated; Success of Mathematician Kevin Short Recognized
http://www.unh.edu/campusjournal/2012/10/commercialization-growth-celebrated-success-mathematician-kevin-short-recognized
UNH’s Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization (ORPC) celebrated the success of faculty and staff members in increasing the number of innovation disclosures more than 100 percent to set a UNH annual record of 32 disclosures. The University’s second annual Innovator of the Year award was presented to mathematician Kevin Short.
Related Research Areas: Business & Technology
Faculty Receive $1.3 Million in Prestigious NSF CAREER Grants |  Ruml Wosnik Korkolis | |
Three UNH faculty members will explore energy from the ocean, manufacturing on a tiny scale, and speedier computer planning, thanks to prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grants, totaling nearly $1.3 million over five years, went to assistant professors Wheeler Ruml of the computer science department, and Yannis Korkolis and Martin Wosnik of the mechanical engineering department. Related Research Areas: Business & Technology | ||
| First EPSCoR Project Increases Research Capacity New Hampshire’s first project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) significantly increased research capacity in space science, environmental science and nanotechnology. Key accomplishments for UNH included leading $46 million in new NASA missions and building the world’s largest wind tunnel. Related Research Areas: Agriculture & Biosciences; Space Science
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Good Chemistry In the summer of 2012, an era quietly closed at UNH’s College of Engineering and Physical Related Research Areas: Health, Behavioral & Social Sciences |
Brad Kinsey – Testing research/sites/ unh.edu.research/ files/docs/RDaC/ Research_Profiles/ Research_Profile_Brad_ Kinsey_12-0906.pdf
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How's That Again? If you think your boss is picky, it's a good thing you're not a software developer for Related Research Areas: Business & Technology | |||
Kinner Named University Professor
http://www.unh.edu/research/sites/unh.edu.research/files/docs/RES_AREAS/Digest_12_EPS/CJ%202012%20109%20Kinner%20Named%20University%20Professor.pdf
Nancy Kinner – professor of civil and environmental engineering, oil spill expert, chief faculty marshal – has another title to add to her list. Kinner has been honored for outstanding contributions to her field and to the university community with a University Professorship.
Related Research Areas: Sustainability & the Environment
| Middle Schoolers Get Excited About Engineering – From 3,500 Miles Away Students at Oyster River Middle School in Durham got a close-up look at real-world research this summer when their intern, Berkley Sadana [pictured left], accompanied Diane Foster, associate professor of mechanical engineering [pictured right], on a trip to the Netherlands to study how waves cause beach erosion. During her 10 days at the Delta Flume – a wave simulator that’s longer than two football fields placed end-to-end – Sadana interacted with students via daily blog entries and several on-site Skype sessions. Related Research Areas: Health, Behavioral & Social Sciences | | ||
Nicholas Landry – Using Nanoindentation to Investigatethe Effect of Manufacturing Pressure Mechanical engineering undergraduate Nicholas Landry '14 [on left] describes his research in nanoindentation |  | ||
NSF Awards $450,000 to UNH, Conductive Compounds, Inc. for Solar Panel Innovation
http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2012/sep/bp05nsf.cfm
http://www.unh.edu/campusjournal/2012/09/nsf-awards-450000-unh-conductive-compounds-inc-solar-panel-innovation
UNH researchers and Conductive Compounds, Inc. in Hudson recently received a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help produce more conductive and cost-effective solar panels.
Related Research Areas: Business & Technology; Sustainability & the Environment
NSF Grant Will Create Network to Prepare Roads, Bridges for Changing Climate
http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2012/oct/bp03nsfgrant.cfm
http://www.unh.edu/campusjournal/2012/10/nsf-grant-will-create-network-prepare-roads-bridges-changing-climate
As our climate changes, will roadways built to withstand New England winters hold up to increasingly normal Maryland-like summers? If sea levels rise, will ships still be able to pass under bridges? How will the bridges themselves survive more powerful storms? A new National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project led by researchers from UNH hopes to answer these questions.
Related Research Areas: Sustainability & the Environment
 | NSF Grants of $947,000 Help UNH Professor Boost Ethanol Efficiency Xiaowei Teng, assistant professor of chemical engineering at UNH, has received two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling nearly $1 million to improve the efficiency of ethanol oxidation fuel cell reactions. With these grants, Teng will work to improve the viability of ethanol as a future renewable fuel in the power generation industry. Related Research Areas: Sustainability & the Environment |
Physics Professor On Hand for Higgs Boson Discovery Announcement
http://unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2012/Jul/11higgs.cfm
Per Berglund, associate professor of physics, had a front-row seat to his field’s largest discovery in half a century. Berglund, a string theorist, was at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator, when, on July 4, 2012, scientists confirmed discovery of what is likely the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that gives other particles mass.
Small Research, Large Potential When Niva Gupta, associate professor of chemical engineering [on left], agreed to let Brian Zukas work Related Research Areas: Business & Technology |  | ||
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| Two UNH Professors Named American Association for Advancement of Science Fellows Nathan Schwadron [pictured left], associate professor of physics at the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) , and Stacia Sower [pictured right], professor of biochemistry and director of UNH's Center for Molecular and Comparative Endocrinology (CME), have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers scientifically socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Related Research Areas: Agriculture & Biosciences; Space Science |
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 | UNH Geologists to Instrument Northern N.E. With Seismometers UNH graduate students Evangelos Korkolis [left] and Ian Honsberger [right] and Margaret Boettcher, assistant professor of Earth sciences [center], fanned out across northern New England during the summer of 2012, searching for sites to place 24 seismometers—instruments that record earthquakes—as part of a nationwide effort to “telescope into the Earth’s interior.” | |
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UNH Labs Receive $1.35M in NSF Grants for Research Instruments
http://www.unh.edu/campusjournal/2012/09/unh-labs-receive-135m-nsf-grants-research-instruments
http://www.eos.unh.edu/news/indiv_news.shtml?NEWS_ID=1333
http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2012/sep/bp19nsf.cfm
Two major grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), totaling $1.35 million, will enable UNH to buy cutting-edge research instruments: a reader of the DNA that encodes an organism’s genetic information, and a computer cluster capable of modeling space weather. The equipment will facilitate research in UNH’s Hubbard Center for Genome Studies and the Space Science Center in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS), as well as in other departments and centers at UNH and across the region.
Related Research Areas: Agriculture & Biosciences
UNH Ocean Scientists Shed New Light on Mariana Trench Research Professor James Gardner and Affiliate Professor Andrew Armstrong, both of UNH’s Related Research Areas: Marine & Ocean Sciences |  | |
UNH Receives $3.4M to Address Gender Imbalance in STEM Faculty
http://www.unh.edu/news/releases/2012/oct/lw22stem.cfm
http://www.unh.edu/campusjournal/2012/10/unh-receives-34m-address-gender-imbalance-stem-faculty
UNH has received a $3.4 million ADVANCE Institutional Transformation (IT) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to strengthen policies and implement practices to address gender imbalance in the faculty, primarily in the STEM disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Related Research Areas: Health, Behavioral & Social Sciences
 | UNH Research Brings New Understanding to Past Global Warming Events Will Clyde, associate professor of geology in UNH’s Earth sciences department, and colleagues have found Related Research Areas: Sustainability & the Environment |
UNH Seniors Create Bicycle-Powered Washing Machine The outcome of a senior capstone project by three UNH mechanical engineering Related Research Areas: Sustainability & the Environment |  | ||
 | UNH Students Compete in Washington, D.C., With Innovative Wind Energy Project A UNH student project seeking to harvest the wind energy from bridge underpasses was selected to compete for the Environmental Protection Agency’s People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award at its National Sustainable Design Expo April 21 – 23, 2012, in Washington, D.C. Related Research Areas: Sustainability & the Environment | |
Unprecedented View of N.H. Landscape Is Available from UNH New high-resolution topographic data covering approximately 900 square miles of New Hampshire’s Related Research Areas: Sustainability & the Environment |  | |
 | Virtual Tests Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Greg Chini and his student William Matern '12 are using mathematical modeling to develop a conceptual understanding of the mechanisms regarding collapse and reinflation of alveoli, the microscopic air sacs in the lungs. Predicting how the alveoli change in response to treatment could give doctors a better handle on the biggest health problem facing premature infants: collapsed lungs, also known as chronic lung disease. Related Research Areas: Health, Behavioral & Social Sciences | |
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Ruml, Korkolis and Wosnik | Perry Smith, UNH Photographic Services |
