UNH Today

DURHAM, N.H. - Andrea O'Brien, business advisor with the NH Small Business Development Center, has been awarded the 2011 National Best Practices Award by the Association for Persons in Supported Employment. The award recognizes individuals and businesses demonstrating an outstanding commitment to ensuring employment for all individuals.

DURHAM, N.H. - Persistent high poverty is most prevalent among children, with those living in rural America disproportionally impacted, according to researchers from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.

"Nearly 22 percent of America's children live in poverty, compared with 14 percent of the total population. Poverty is scattered and geographically concentrated, and it ebbs and flows with economic cycles. However, in some parts of the country, poverty has persisted for generations," the researchers said.

DURHAM, N.H. — More than 1 in 4 children have been exposed to physical violence between their parents at some time, 1 in 9 of them during the past year, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire Crimes against Children Research Center.

The research was reported in a new bulletin released by the U.S. Department of Justice. The bulletin was part of The National Survey of Children Exposed to Violence.

DURHAM, N.H. -- University of New Hampshire graduate student Matthew Vadeboncoeur was recently awarded a 2011 Switzer Environmental Fellowship by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. The fellowship is one of just 20 awarded this year by the foundation for emerging environmental leaders who are pursuing graduate degrees and are dedicated to working towards positive environmental change in their career work. Fellows, chosen from universities in New England and California, each receive $15,000 to help them complete their degrees.

DURHAM, N.H. - Type in #billgardnerfacts on Twitter and you will find a growing group of admirers discussing the "superhuman" qualities of New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, fierce defender of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary.

On Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, Gardner announced that the New Hampshire Presidential Primary could be as early as Dec. 6, 2011, given the current calendar jockeying going on in other states such as Nevada.

DURHAM, N.H. -- A new digital textbook program launched this semester at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics has saved students more than $70,000 in textbook costs. 

DURHAM, N.H. - In a move that increases attendance capacity to five times that of past venues, the Admissions Office at the University of New Hampshire will hold its annual fall open house at the Whittemore Center Arena on Main Street in Durham Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The move to the Whittemore Center allows organizers to invite up to 3,000 people. Past events have topped out at about 600.

DURHAM, N.H. - The New Hampshire Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-LEND) Program, a partnership of Dartmouth Medical School and the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability (IOD), has received a $4.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The funding, a major increase from the program's previous funding level, will support NH-LEND as it significantly expands trainee opportunities in New Hampshire and Maine. The five-year grant is the highest level of funding for such programs from the U.S.

DURHAM, N.H. -- University of New Hampshire scientists have received National Science Foundation (NSF) funding to explore how small-scale ecological experiments can be applied to understand the behavior of entire ecosystems, part of the agency's nascent effort to investigate large-scale biological responses to climate and land-use change.

DURHAM, N.H. - Two University of New Hampshire undergraduates received forgivable loans of up to $20,000 to pursue teaching careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields in rural and high-needs public schools. The students - Taylor Langkau '12 from Groveton and Kaitlyn Stefanski '13 of Weare - received Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarships at a ceremony Friday, Oct. 7, 2011, at UNH.