UNH Today

DURHAM, N.H. - Tom Newkirk, professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and recipient of the 2010 Lindberg Award, will deliver the Lindberg Lecture Thursday, April 21, 2011. The highest award of the College of Liberal Arts, the Lindberg Award is given annually to an outstanding teacher and scholar in the college.

The 2010 Lindberg Award winner, Newkirk's lecture, "Tale of the Tape:  Donald Graves and the Revolution in Children's Writing," begins at 1 p.m. in 110 Murkland Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

DURHAM, N.H. - William Darrow, the public health researcher who played a role in demonstrating the sexual transmission of the AIDS virus, will speak at the University of New Hampshire Thursday, April 14, 2011. His free public lecture, hosted by the Kidder Fund and the UNH College of Health and Human Services, will address "The AIDS Pandemic: What Went Wrong, When and Why." Darrow's talk is in Murkland Hall, room 115, at 12:40 p.m.

DURHAM, N.H. -- University of New Hampshire Professional Development and Training will host the 6th annual Conference for Office Professionals on Thursday, April 28, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth.

This conference is geared to office managers, executive and administrative assistants, clerical staff, and other office professionals. Several concurrent sessions will be offered that focus on communication skills, time management, and organizational skills.

DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire's N.H. Authors Series brings novelist Ernest Hebert to campus Sunday, April 10, 2011, at 2 p.m. in the 5th floor reading room of the Dimond Library.

Hebert, who teaches English and creative writing at Dartmouth College, is the author of eight novels. The five books that make up the Darby series take place in a fictitious New Hampshire town.

DURHAM, N.H. - Some public trees and shrubs around the Seacoast are getting much-needed haircuts this spring, thanks to horticulture students at the University of New Hampshire's Thompson School of Applied Science.

DURHAM, N.H. - The cofounder of a victim assistance program and a Pembroke couple who have dedicated their lives to preserving New Hampshire's history are the recipients of the 2011 University of New Hampshire Granite State Award, given for outstanding community service.

James and Donna-Belle Garvin, authors of numerous books and articles on New England history, and Patricia Rainboth, cofounder and executive director of the Joan Ellis Victim Assistance Network, Victims Inc., will receive the awards during UNH's 141st commencement ceremony Saturday, May 21, 2011.

DURHAM, N.H. - In a paper to be published in the April 10, 2011, issue of The Astrophysical Journal, scientists on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, including lead author Nathan Schwadron and others from the University of New Hampshire, isolate and resolve the mysterious "ribbon" of energy and particles the spacecraft discovered in the heliosphere - the huge bubble that surrounds our solar system and protects us from galactic cosmic rays. 

DURHAM, N.H. - New research from the Carsey Institute at the University shows that people living in chronically poor rural areas have among the lowest education attainment levels from generation to generation, underscoring that a lack of educational opportunities has persisted for decades.

DURHAM, N.H. - New England - romantically imagined as a gentle landscape of rolling farmland dotted with lazily grazing livestock - produces less of its own food than any other region in the nation. This reliance on food imported using fossil fuels over an aging transportation infrastructure makes New Englanders vulnerable to food insecurity, says University of New Hampshire professor John Carroll in a new book, "The Real Dirt."

DURHAM, N.H. - The New Hampshire Department of Transportation has approved applications for three projects aimed at improving University of New Hampshire transportation offerings. The new services will debut during the next two academic years. The bulk of the $2.76 million funding will come from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) program.