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DURHAM, N.H. -- A comprehensive report on how the climate of New Hampshire's Piscataqua/Great Bay region has changed over the past century and how it will be affected by future human activities is set for release Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, in conjunction with the 2011 New Hampshire Coastal Climate Summit: Collaborating for Solutions.
DURHAM, N.H. - The nation's school children have made little progress recently in advancing their reading skills, but a new book by a University of New Hampshire professor who specializes in literacy aims to change that.
Thomas Newkirk, professor of English at UNH, suggests that students get more enjoyment out of and have greater success with reading when they slow down. Newkirk outlines how to boost student enjoyment of reading in his new book "The Art of Slow Reading" (2011 Heinemann).
DURHAM, N.H. - Scientists at the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) have been funded by NASA to improve estimates of how melting mountain glaciers around the globe will contribute to sea level rise in the future. The data, which are currently poorly understood, will be a critical new element in the next assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
DURHAM, N.H. - Runners over the age of 60 are the fastest-growing group in the sport. A new study from the University of New Hampshire suggests that their running can remain fast as they age, too.
Yusi Wang Turell is the executive director for the Center on Social Innovation and Finance at the Carsey Institute, responsible for overseeing all center programs and activities, including the Master of Arts in Development Policy and Practice. She has 10 years of experience in business strategy and growing nonprofits to scale.
Erin Hiley Sharp is a Carsey School faculty fellow and associate professor of family studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include activity involvement as a context for adolescent development; parental, family, and broader contextual influences on adolescent development; and prevention research and theory from a positive youth development perspective. At the Carsey School, Erin’s work focuses on investigating factors that contribute to the positive development of vulnerable youth.
William (Bill) Maddocks is the coordinator of the Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute. He holds a master's degree in community economic development from New Hampshire College and a bachelor's degree from Southeastern Massachusetts University. For seven years, he was the director of the Microenterprise and Development Institute at the School of Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) and operated training workshops in New Hampshire, Ghana, Tanzania, and South Africa.
Eleanor Jaffee is an evaluation research associate at the Carsey School. Her roles at Carsey include project management of the Coos County Youth Study and work on multiple evaluations, such as More Than Wheels and the Sustainable Microenterprise & Development Program. She is also a doctoral candidate at the School of Social Welfare in Albany, New York; her dissertation research focuses on quality of life issues among women participating in a supported housing program for adults with psychiatric disabilities and histories of homelessness.
DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire Rosenberg Center Franchise 50 Index, which tracks publicly traded companies in the United States engaged in business format franchising, dropped 9.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011, weighed down by mounting domestic and global economic and political uncertainties.
DURHAM, N.H. - While the independent-minded members of Generation X take consumer decisions into their own hands, the younger Generation Yers are much more dependent on the opinions of others - especially their parents - when making purchases. Taken together, the significantly different shopping habits of these two generations of consumers present a tricky situation for marketers who are now in their most lucrative time of the year - the Christmas shopping season, according to a University of New Hampshire professor.
