UNH Today

DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire Therapeutic Riding Program will host a benefit luncheon ringside at the Fidelity Investments Jumper Classic, a premier equestrian sporting event, Saturday, Sept. 18th, 2010 at Silver Oak Equestrian Center in Hampton Falls. Proceeds from the luncheon, which runs from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., support the Therapeutic Riding Program.

DURHAM, N.H. - Professor Eberhard Möbius of the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center is available to discuss the Perseid meteor shower, which will be visible starting tonight. The best time to see the "shooting stars" will be after midnight through the pre-dawn hours of Friday, August 13. Among the strongest of the annual meteor showers, the Perseids can yield a maximum of 90 or 100 meteors per hour under the right conditions.

DURHAM, N.H. - An African American woman is handcuffed after refusing to give a white passenger her seat on a bus. Four little girls are killed in the bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, murdered while they prepare for their weekly Sunday school lessons. A quarter of a million Americans march in Washington for racial equality, culminating at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech.

DURHAM, N.H. - This coming month, more than 15,000 college freshmen will get their first taste of college life not in a dorm or a classroom but in the nation's woods, mountains, and waterways. New research by a University of New Hampshire professor has found that outdoor orientation programs, typically backcountry trips led by upperclassmen that occur prior to the start of college, have been increasing significantly since 2000 and are as common at public institutions as at elite private colleges.

DURHAM, N.H. - Thanks to Wally Bothner, the top of Mount Washington has been replaced and the Northeast's highest peak now reaches its true height of 6,288 feet. Bothner, Professor Emeritus of geology at the University of New Hampshire, did not wear hiking boots or carry a backpack to repair the fabled mountaintop; rather, he rebuilt it with pine, glue and wood putty in a makeshift studio at the edge of campus.

DURHAM, N.H. - Brady McMillion and Sam Moore, rising seventh graders from Dover Middle School, peered into the deep test tank at the University of New Hampshire's Chase Ocean Engineering Laboratory recently, watching the boxy little Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) they built glide sleekly through the water.

DURHAM, N.H. - University of New Hampshire students will have the opportunity to learn more about the Middle East with the addition of a new program that teaches them about the languages, history, politics, geography, and anthropology of this dynamic region.

The new minor in Middle Eastern Studies will be offered through the College of Liberal Arts for the first time this fall. UNH launched the new program in response to growing interest from students about the region.