UNH Today

DURHAM, N.H. - When Mark Henn was in high school, he and one of his pals decided that a particularly foggy patch of swamp land on a particularly curvy road near a particularly creepy cemetery was the perfect place to invent a ghost. On one particularly dark night later, the story of the ghost of Dead Man's Curve was born.

DURHAM, N.H. - More than 50 experts and practitioners from government, academia and industry finished a two-day meeting Thursday, May 27, 2010, looking at the potential long-term impacts of the prolonged use of large volumes of dispersants in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the third time NOAA and EPA have gathered top scientists to discuss dispersant use since the spill began. EPA and NOAA scientists are conducting rigorous ongoing monitoring and analysis of the effectiveness and toxicity of the dispersants used.

DURHAM, N.H. - Gerald Babonis of Monadnock Regional High School received the 2009 Gary N. Lauten Award for outstanding service and commitment to the University of New Hampshire's Forest Watch program at a ceremony held last week on the Durham campus. Babonis has been involved in Forest Watch since 2000.

DURHAM, N.H. - Recent increased tension on the Asian peninsula not only has endangered the security situation in Northeast Asia, but also whether reunification between North and South Korea will ever take place. The situation could push the United States to introduce more military resources into the region and encourage China to be a more dominant political player, according to Chris Reardon, associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire.

DURHAM, N.H. - Rick Cote, professor and chair of the department of molecular, cellular, and biomedical sciences at the University of New Hampshire, has received $1.1 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his ongoing research on one of the proteins that causes retinitis pigmentosa, a leading inherited cause of vision loss and blindness.

DURHAM, N.H. - Being optimistic and daring to dare were the messages given during the University of New Hampshire's 140th commencement Saturday, May 22, 2010, where 2,200 graduates from 35 states and 17 countries received degrees.

"Be entrepreneurial. See the possibilities and not the limits. Create. Build. Make," said President Mark Huddleston who went on to say, "This is an entrepreneurial university in an entrepreneurial state. UNH does not mass-produce worker bees for soulless slots in faceless bureaucracies. UNH develops thinkers and doers."

DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire's premier MBA program for seasoned professionals, the Executive MBA offered by the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, has chosen historic downtown Portsmouth for its location beginning this fall.

The only Executive MBA program north of Boston, UNH's program is targeted to mid- to senior-level professionals with multiple years of work experience who are looking for a top-level business degree and to expand their network and learn from other experienced professionals.

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 2010 only.  They do not contain information about students who graduated in September and December of 2009.

UNH Graduates New Hampshire by County
/unhtoday/news/docs/2010/commencement/NH-by-County.pdf

UNH Graduates Regionally By State

DURHAM, N.H. - The University of New Hampshire will celebrate the life and legacy of Paul Verrette, associate professor emeritus of music, at a musical tribute Thursday, June 3, 2010. Verrette died Aug. 5, 2009.

BOSTON - The New England states are emerging from the national recession, but employment growth will lag, with the region not expected to reach its pre-recession employment peak until the third quarter of 2013, according to Ross Gittell, James R. Carter Professor of Management at the University of New Hampshire.