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Johnson Selected to Distinguished Lecture Series

Joel Johnson, professor and chair of UNH’s Department of Earth Sciences, was recently selected as a lecturer for the prestigious 2024-2025 Ocean Discovery Lecture Series.

For more than 20 years, the Ocean Discovery Lecture Series (formerly the Distinguished Lecturer Series) has brought the exciting scientific results and discoveries of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and its predecessor programs to academic research institutions, museums and aquaria.

Bruce Sacerdote Delivers Hogan Lecture at Paul College

Have you ever considered that the people you grew up with could be critical factors in shaping your future education and finances? 

These peer effects occur daily as people continuously impact those around them by providing social and professional connections and modeling each other’s behavior. 

Bruce Sacerdote dove deep into the subject of “Impacts of Neighborhood: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do,” during the John A. Hogan Distinguished Lecture on March 28 at the UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics.