Beth Potier

Beth Potier's Articles

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    CAREER Builder: Three UNH Faculty Members Receive Prestigious Awards

    Three UNH faculty members have received prestigious National Science Foundation awards to support their work predicting earthquakes, recycling carbon dioxide into fuel and measuring methane bubbles.
  • Bobcat

    A Great Day To Be a Bobcat

    New Hampshire’s bobcats are on the rise — and on the move, showing up in places they’ve never been reported before. Those are the major findings from a four-year study of the animal that puts the “...
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    Green and White

    The rate of winter warming has tripled in the U.S. since 1970. The northern hemisphere has lost one million square miles of spring snowpack in the last 50 years. As many as half the ski resorts in...
  • memorial bridge at dusk

    It’s Alive!

    A new project led by UNH engineers will transform the Memorial Bridge over the Piscataqua River into a “living” bridge that could change the way we look at bridges and infrastructure in the near...
  • amanda parks

    Freshest Fish: Found!

    Amanda Parks gets dressed for some fishing. Looking for a seafood dinner that’s off-the-boat fresh? Wondering whether dogfish tastes better with butter or breadcrumbs? Thanks to senior Amanda Parks...
  • steve jones in boat with student

    The Oyster Is Their World

    Steve Jones, research associate professor of natural resources and the environment and a water quality specialist, samples Great Bay with Ph.D. student Meg Hartwick. Consider the gifts of the oyster...
  • Ryan Cassotto in Greenland

    Glacial Race

    Courtesy Photo It only sounds like a joke: When the world’s fastest-moving glacier sped up in the summer of 2012 – suddenly surging from Greenland’s west coast at four times its 1990s rate – UNH...
  • Erik Swartz

    UNH Professor Is NFL's MVP for Equipment Research

    When the NFL wanted to evaluate the impact of non-standard facemasks on player safety, they turned to UNH kinesiology professor Erik Swartz for the data. His findings led to the league’s much-...
  • tracey ellis

    Global OT

    As an occupational therapist, Tracey Ellis ’93 is trained to solve problems.  So when her Washington, D.C.-based Ellis Therapeutic Consultants began delivering occupational therapy (OT) to American...
  • students at research project site, collecting nitrogen through urine

    Reduce, Reuse, Peecycle

    Visitors to downtown Durham this spring might have noticed students sporting an unusual accessory: a sticker with a yellow droplet on it proclaiming "I donated my nitrogen." No personal sacrifice was...
  • local seafood

    Gone Fishin’

    On Wednesday, April 16 UNH will host its first Sustainable Seafood Dinner at Holloway Commons from 4:30 to 9:00 p.m. The dinner will highlight locally caught seafood and New England’s fishing...
  • sarah drumheller with patient

    A Step Ahead

    Student Sarah Drumheller and her internship supervisor Elizabeth Barbin talk with a patient at Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital.
  • Katey Stone '89

    Golden Opportunity

    Conversations with Katey Stone ’89 about her job—head coach for Harvard women’s ice hockey on hiatus to coach the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team—are sprinkled with words like “fun,” “joy,” “...
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    Pre-Med, With Feeling

    Why would anyone leave Chocolatetown, U.S.A., for a state that brags about granite? For Hershey, Penn., native Ben Claxton ’14, the lure was the lab. Specifically, the opportunity for the pre-med...
  • Jenny Jing

    Strawberry Fields...for Now

    Jenny Jing ’13 loves strawberries, and that’s a good thing. She’s worked in the lab of professor Tom Davis, a leading strawberry genetics researcher, for three years.
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    UNH Students Compete in Washington, D.C., With Innovative Wind Energy Project

    A University of New Hampshire student project seeking to harvest the wind energy from bridge underpasses has been selected to compete for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) People,...
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    UNH Student Wins Third Place in Science Competition

    A first-year student at the University of New Hampshire is a top-three United States finisher in an international science competition. Sarah Kremer ’15, an ecology, evolution, and behavior major from...
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    UNH Research Brings New Understanding to Past Global Warming Events

    A series of global warming events called hyperthermals that occurred more than 50 million years ago had a similar origin to a much larger hyperthermal of the period, the Pelaeocene-Eocene Thermal...
  • UNH equestrian team

    UNH Equestrians Win Regional Championships

    The University of New Hampshire's Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association (IHSA) team has won the team regional championship for the northern New England region for the second consecutive year,...
  • UNH students

    Resisting Hackers in a Single Keystroke

    Some of the world's wiliest hackers were no match for a team of University of New Hampshire computer science students that triumphed with a second-place finish at the 2012 Northeast Collegiate Cyber...
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    ADVANCE Program Makes Awards to Women Faculty in the Sciences

    UNH Professors Serita Frey and Lynn Kistler are recipients of recent grants from the UNH ADVANCE program.
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    UNH Faculty Receive $1.3 Million in Prestigious NSF CAREER Grants

    Three University of New Hampshire faculty members will explore energy from the ocean, manufacturing on a tiny scale, and speedier computer planning, thanks to prestigious Faculty Early Career...
  • Mariana Trench

    UNH Ocean Scientists Shed New Light on Mariana Trench

    Map view of bathymetry of southern Mariana Trench Challenger Deep area. Arrow points to circle that identifies the location of the deepest sounding in the trench (10,994 meters). White contours are...
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