UNH Today

DURHAM, N.H. - New Hampshire’s economy and balancing the state budget are the most important problems facing the state according to state residents. Gov. John Lynch remains popular among Granite Staters. These findings are based on the latest WMUR Granite State Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.

Five hundred twenty (520) randomly selected New Hampshire adults were interviewed by telephone between Jan. 27 and Feb. 6, 2011. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4.3 percent.

DURHAM, N.H. - "Eat your veggies" might be easier advice to swallow in Nashua or Manchester than Berlin or Gorham. Accompanied by the steady drumbeat of awareness of healthy eating, a University of New Hampshire doctoral student has explored the availability of fresh food in New Hampshire's North Country. In a new brief from UNH's Carsey Institute, Jennifer Esala, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, finds that the food landscape in parts of rural northern New Hampshire is "dismal."

DURHAM, N.H. - "Eat your veggies" might be easier advice to swallow in Nashua or Manchester than Berlin or Gorham. Accompanied by the steady drumbeat of awareness of healthy eating, a University of New Hampshire doctoral student has explored the availability of fresh food in New Hampshire's North Country. In a new brief from UNH's Carsey Institute, Jennifer Esala, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology, finds that the food landscape in parts of rural northern New Hampshire is "dismal."

DURHAM, N.H. - The face of New Hampshire is changing and will shape the state's future, creating new challenges for business, higher education, and state policy makers.

Ken Johnson, senior demographer with the Carsey Institute and professor of sociology at University of New Hampshire, will discuss these issues at a New Hampshire Forum on the Future event Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, at the Bedford Village Inn. Johnson's presentation, "Demographic Shifts Shaping NH's Future," begins at 8 a.m. Breakfast will be served.

DURHAM, N.H. - A new program developed by the New Hampshire Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association will match University of New Hampshire, Southern New Hampshire University and other area college students with businesses for hands-on experience in information and IT security.

DURHAM, N.H. -- University of New Hampshire Professional Development and Training will host an Applied Leadership Institute for managers and supervisors in profit and nonprofit organizations.

The institute is comprised of three Tuesdays: March 29, April 12, and May 3, from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. It will be held at UNH at Pease Tradeport, 73 Corporate Drive, in Portsmouth.

The registration deadline for this program is March 15.

DURHAM, N.H. -- The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide project closed out its fifth drilling season on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 after reaching a depth of 3,331 meters - about two miles - thereby deriving the deepest ice core ever drilled by U.S. researchers. The WAIS Divide project, for which the University of New Hampshire provides science coordination, is investigating the last 100,000 years of Earth's climate history. The ice at 3,331 meters fell as snow about 100,000 years ago.

DURHAM, N.H. - A University of New Hampshire ocean mapping expert will lead the National Research Council's committee to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on ecosystem services in the Gulf of Mexico. Larry Mayer, professor of Earth science and ocean engineering, director of UNH's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, and co-director of the UNH-NOAA Joint Hydrographic Center, will chair the committee in a 30-month inquiry that will produce a final report for elected officials, public policy leaders, and the public in fall of 2012.

DURHAM, N.H. - With a new study out looking at the fate of dispersants used to mitigate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in summer 2010, concerns have reemerged about the unprecedented use of these chemicals below the surface. Oil spill expert Nancy Kinner, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of New Hampshire, is available to comment on the study, published recently in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, and on the science of dispersants in general.

DURHAM, N.H. - From an environmental perspective, Daphnia pulex  -- the waterflea - is the best-studied organism on the planet. Scientists know how this species responds to pollution, predators, day and night, making it an important model for ecological and evolutionary research. Its genome, however, remained elusive, limiting understanding of how the environment and genes interact.