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A Bench of Her Own

Jean Mitchell rarely lets anyone call her that. It’s Mama Jean to almost everyone who walks through her door — the first one before the pool at the UNH Field House. And it is Mama Jean that is etched into the granite bench Mitchell donated as part of the Walk of Memory near the Field House entrance. One of the first benches to honor a living Wildcat, its inscription reads, “Mama Jean and the Mitchell Family.”

A Winning Alignment

It’s a daunting list of tasks that UNH’s FSAE Precision Racing team has to complete each year to build a car from scratch and get it competition-ready. Since the fall, members of this year’s team of 18 seniors from the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS) have put in upward of 60 hours each week developing designs; prototyping, manufacturing and assembling parts; and testing and fine-tuning everything from aerodynamics to electronics to the powertrain.