UNH Today

DURHAM. N.H. - The following students have been named to the Dean's List at the University of New Hampshire for the fall semester of the 2011-2012 academic year.

DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center has received a $217,000 federal grant to help the victims of child pornography by identifying promising treatment and policy responses to promote their recovery.

Funded by the Office for Victims of Crime at the U.S. Department of Justice, the two-year grant is part of a larger half a million dollar award to the National Center for Victims of Crime, with which the UNH Crimes against Children Research Center and the National Children's Alliance are collaborating partners.

DURHAM, N.H. - Space scientists, including researchers from the University of New Hampshire (UNH), today described the first detailed analyses of samples of captured interstellar neutral atoms - raw material for the formation of new stars, planets, and human beings.

DURHAM, N.H. - U.S. Paralympics, a division of the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC), has made two grants to Northeast Passage at the University of New Hampshire to support the program's Paralympic activities for disabled veterans and members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Northeast Passage received $150,000 to launch the New England Veterans Paralympic Regional Development Program and $17,000 for its Paralympic Sport Club.

DURHAM, N.H. - They come from different backgrounds and experiences, but two groups of New Hampshire elementary school students have learned how much they have in common after participating in an art-based literacy project through the Center for the Advancement of Art-Based Literacy at the University of New Hampshire that allowed them to share their family's immigration stories.

DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire will present a staged reading of the play "8," the nationally acclaimed production about marriage equality based on trial transcripts from California's 2010 court fight over Proposition 8, the initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage in the state, which has since been overturned.

DURHAM, N.H. - People with disabilities trying to find employment in the U.S. hospitality industry face employers who are often reluctant to hire them because of preconceived notions that they cannot do the job and that they are more costly to employ that people without disabilities, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire.  

DURHAM, N.H. - With 25 alumni currently serving in the Peace Corps, the University of New Hampshire now ranks at No. 18 among medium-sized colleges and universities whose graduates go on to volunteer for the organization that was established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961.

In 2011, with 21 alumni serving, UNH was at No. 25. Since its founding more than 40 years ago, 670 UNH alumni have entered the Peace Corps.

DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire's New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice (NHIHPP), in partnership with health care reform organizations in Maine and Vermont, has received a grant from the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust Fund at The Boston Foundation to support a regional network to provide help with health care reform efforts.

DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire Confucius Institute will celebrate the Chinese New Year - the Year of the Dragon - Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, with performances by the Wenqin Performing Arts Group of Zhejiang University.

The group from Hangzhou, China, will be part of a larger celebration that will include the ballet performance of The White-Haired Girl and two martial arts performances by Dai Haibin of Chengdu University.