UNH Today

DURHAM, N.H.—The University of New Hampshire welcomes alumni and friends back to campus for Homecoming Weekend Oct. 8-10, 2010. The weekend is packed with a wide range of events and activities for the whole family.

Friday Events

DURHAM, NH - Governor John Lynch continues to hold a solid lead over his Republican challenger John Stephen. Lynch's job approval ratings continue to be high. Concerns about state's economy and the state budget remain the top problems on the minds of New Hampshire residents.

DURHAM, NH - Governor John Lynch continues to hold a solid lead over his Republican challenger John Stephen. Lynch's job approval ratings continue to be high. Concerns about state's economy and the state budget remain the top problems on the minds of New Hampshire residents.

DURHAM, N.H - The history of Jewish slave labor camps in Poland and how the victims survived is the focus of the Hans Heilbronner Lecture at the University of New Hampshire Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010.

DURHAM, N.H. -- At a noon Eastern Time media teleconference today at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., University of New Hampshire space scientist Nathan Schwadron will participate in the unveiling of the second maps of the heliosphere produced by the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission (IBEX). The maps, produced by the IBEX Science Team in coordination with the UNH-based IBEX Science Operations Center (ISOC), show surprisingly rapid changes in the protective boundaries surrounding our solar system.

DURHAM, N.H. -- The Center for Family Business at the University of New Hampshire will launch its next Leadership Development Program Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010.

The Leadership Development Program assisting the next generation to assume greater leadership roles in their family businesses. Attendees develop confidence, plan for the future, learn to apply new management skills to company projects and build a peer network of support.

The program is taught by Vanessa Druskat, UNH associate professor of organizational behavior and management.

DURHAM, N.H. - Elisa Steele, '88, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Yahoo!, will return to campus to discuss Internet marketing and social media as part of a jam-packed homecoming celebration for alumni of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.

DURHAM, N.H. - Researchers from the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) are contributing authors of a report published in the September 30, 2010 issue of Nature. The study finds that environmental stressors like agricultural runoff, dams, irrigation, pollution, invasive species, and fishing pressure severely threaten the security of rivers serving 80 percent of the world's population and endanger the biodiversity of 65 percent of the world's river habitats.

DURHAM, N.H. - On the heels of the U.S. Census Bureau's release of its American Community Survey data yesterday, Beth Mattingly, director of research on vulnerable families at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, is available to discuss the implications of the data on the rate of child poverty.

DURHAM, N.H. - Some of the most indelible images of women in recent American film have been of working women fighting for labor reform or to expose corporate corruption. In her new book, Jennifer Borda, associate professor of communication at the University of New Hampshire, explores films with female labor activists as main protagonists, illuminating issues of gender and class while depicting the challenges of working class women.