UNH Today

DURHAM, N.H. - Kai Germaschewski, assistant professor of physics at the University of New Hampshire, has received a prestigious Early Career Research Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support work in fusion plasmas that could one day lead to a cleaner source of energy. Germaschewski, who also works in the Space Science Center of UNH's Institute of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), is the first UNH faculty member to receive a grant through this program since its launch in 2009.

DURHAM, N.H. -- University of New Hampshire fisheries researchers Jamie Cournane and Christopher Glass have received a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation under its Fisheries Innovation Fund to develop a state-of-the-art fisheries stock assessment model and conduct workshops with fishermen to help restore the depleted East Coast population of river herring.

River herring were designated a "Species of Concern" by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2006 due to worries about their stock status, which is presently unknown.

DURHAM, N.H. -- With a proclamation from Governor John Lynch declaring Thursday June 2, 2011, as New Hampshire Space Grant Day, members of the New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium (NHSGC) and officials from the University of New Hampshire and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - including keynote speaker former NASA astronaut Jeff Hoffman - will celebrate the consortium's 20 years of work dedicated to improving education and public awareness of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, particularly as related to our nation's space program.

DURHAM, N.H. - Mitt Romney continues to lead a very unsettled field vying for the Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire. Romney is viewed more favorably than his competitors in almost all policy issues and personality characteristics.

Editors: The files listed below provide lists of UNH graduates by New Hampshire counties and regionally by state. These files reflect those students who have filed for May 2011 only. They do not contain information about students who graduated in September and December of 2010.

DURHAM, N.H. - The New England region is struggling to establish strong growth and recover the jobs lost during the recent recession as U.S. economic conditions remain weak. The region's economy is forecast to continue to grow slowly through the first half of 2011 and then to pick up some modest strength, according to Ross Gittell, James R. Carter Professor of Management at the University of New Hampshire.

DURHAM, N.H. - Fred Short, professor of natural resources and the environment at the University of New Hampshire and a leading expert in seagrass conservation and restoration worldwide, has received the Lifetime Achievement Environmental Merit Award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) New England region. Commended for being a "strong voice for the conservation and protection of Great Bay and its resources," Short received the award at Boston's Faneuil Hall Wednesday, May 11, 2011.

DURHAM, N.H. - A team of University of New Hampshire students who proposed developing a web-based geographic information system (GIS) tool to assist emergency responders and campus managers during emergency incidents recently won the Whittemore School of Business and Economics Paul J. Holloway Prize Innovation-to-Market competition -- the oldest business plan competition in the state and one of the first in the nation.

DURHAM, N. H. -Lennie Mullaney and Joshua Torbick create art in different mediums but that doesn't stop them from being able to offer each other value feedback about their work. Neither does that fact that they are mother and son.

Mullaney is winding up the first of a two- year Master in Fine Arts degree in painting at the University of New Hampshire. Torbick will graduate May 21 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in furniture design.