UNH Sidore Lecture Series Focuses on Big Picture of Sustainability March 21-22

DURHAM, N.H. - Sustainability is more than a buzzword, but what does it really mean? Break free from the limits of "green" and join an international group of humanists to discuss the big idea of sustainability — and what the humanities have to do with it.

The University of New Hampshire 2011-2012 Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series presents "Sustainability Unbound," March 21 and 22, 2012. All lectures will be held in the Huddleston Hall Ballroom and are free and open to the public. "Sustainability Unbound" is organized by the UNH Sustainability Academy.

UNH Dining Services Wins Goldie Award for Promoting Eating Healthy

DURHAM, N.H. - Dining Services at the University of New Hampshire has won a prestigious Goldie Award from FoodService Director Magazine for its efforts to help students and members of the university community who frequent its dining halls eat healthy.

The Goldies are designed to give non-commercial foodservice programs like those on college campuses the opportunity to showcase the many ways in which they achieve gold standard quality in their establishments.

New UNH Exercise Program Supports Those With Peripheral Artery Disease

DURHAM, N.H. - For more than three decades, exercise scientists at the University of New Hampshire have helped people with heart disease - as well as students training to assist them -- with the Cardiac Rehabilitation Program and, later, the Cardiac Prevention Program. Now, the UNH exercise science program has launched a new program - the first in the Seacoast area to help manage the symptoms of peripheral artery disease, or PAD.

Harlan Spence

Spence leads a research group that studies the physics of cosmic plasmas, from the Sun's corona to interplanetary space to Earth's upper atmosphere, using experimental and modeling techniques. He is principal investigator on two major NASA projects: CRaTER, the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation, and the Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma Suite of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP-ECT). He became director of EOS in 2010 after 15 years at Boston University.

North Country Organizations Launch 'Business Services North'

BERLIN, N.H. - Three prominent organizations in New Hampshire's North Country have launched Business Services North, a one-stop point of access for businesses seeking services in the region. The effort is a collaboration of White Mountains Community College (WMCC), Northern Community Investment Corporation (NCIC), and the NH Small Business Development Center (NH SBDC).

UNH and State Department of Agriculture Commit to Keeping Veterinary Lab Open

DURHAM, N.H.  - After more than seven months of work to make up lost revenues, state and university officials have identified one-time funding that will keep the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory open for the next year and a half. State funding for the lab was reduced in this fiscal year and the next through cuts made to both the state agriculture department and the university.