University of New Hampshire demographer Kenneth Johnson was recently quoted in a Los Angeles Times article on the shrinking U.S. birth rate, according to new research from the CDC, and what it might mean for the country. 

Whether they told you to "shape up or drop out," stayed up all night helping you prepare for a test, or just made you laugh with their quintessentially professorial quirks, there are certain professors you'll never forget. That's what we heard you say, over and over again, when we asked for stories of memorable UNH professors. So many reminiscences came in that we've created a web page at www.alumni.unh.edu/professors to post them all. Read on for some examples in the following pages. We hope you enjoy these stories as much as we did.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold never quite fit in. At Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., where athletes were worshipped and just about everyone played a sport, the two preferred violent computer games and firearms. On April 20, 1999, Harris and Klebold went on a rampage, killing 13, including themselves, and shocking the nation and the world. Afterward, when investigators reported that cliques and harassment were rampant at Columbine, the media jumped on the idea that bullying played a major role in the tragedy.

Compound Interest: High-tech compound bows are preferred by many of the 30-some students who show up for Archery Club practice at Hamel Recreation Center twice a week. Beginners usually start with a 35-pound bow, but Bridget O'Donnell '09, front, is a bowhunter who shoots with 42 pounds of draw weight. Compound bows take less strength to hold at full draw than the long bows or recurves that most of us recall from our days at camp. Regardless of the bow, archery is a demanding sport, says coach Mark Olson.

It was 1 a.m. when I arrived in Brazil's murder capital.

A U.S. embassy worker waited for me at the airport terminal, holding a sign with my name. A man with a graying goatee and a disarming smile, he introduced himself as Edvaldo and escorted me to an SUV that I would later learn was bullet-proof.

IT MAKES SENSE that the endowment for UNH's sustainability program—the first of its kind in the country—came from a farmer. The late Oliver Hubbard '21, who gave the university $10 million in the mid-'90s, grew up on a New Hampshire farm long before the words "organic" and "sustainable" were in vogue. But that's what those early farms were all about.

LAST SPRING, ON MARCH 2, ED LYMAN '88G was skimming through the water off the coast of Maui, Hawaii, his feet braced for balance, a taut line burning against his gloved hands, salt spray spitting across the bow of his inflatable craft, stinging his eyes. About 50 feet ahead of him, attached to the other end of the line, was a 40-ton humpback whale.

If numbers were shouts, Gary Langer's office at ABC News would sound like Yankee Stadium.

Numbers call to him from printouts piled high on the glass-topped coffee table. Stacks of stats in tiny type spill across his desk, bumping the bottoms of two large computer monitors. Over by the window, stray survey pages have drifted to the floor. He'll pick them up someday, but right now, more numbers are calling. They beep into his e-mail inbox; they buzz into his BlackBerry. Questions about numbers keep his phone ringing and his assistants striding in and out with new piles of data.