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Beth Potier
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Tackling Turbulence
Assistant professor of mathematics John Gibson, recipient of a NSF CAREER award. -
Finkelhor: Child Abuse in Youth Organizations Is Low
Child abuse at the hands of Scout leaders, priests or coaches is far less common than abuse of children or adolescents by family members or other adults. Thatâs the primary finding of new research... -
Networking Honor
Itâs a distinction that wonât surprise anyone whoâs met UNH InterOperability Laboratory director Erica Johnson: Next week, New Hampshire Business Review (NHBR) will honor her with its Outstanding... -
UNH Solar Physicist Receives Prize
Terry Forbes, research professor emeritus in the physics department and the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, recently received the George Ellery Hale Prize from the American... -
Sundberg To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Donald Sundberg, professor emeritus of materials science and director of UNHâs Nanostructured Polymers Research Center, will receive a lifetime achievement award from the American Coatings... -
California Dreamin'
The UNH booth, hosted here by Tara Hicks Johnson, outreach specialist at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, was a popular destination for would-be graduate students and research collaborators... -
Prevention Pioneers
At its fifth annual Innovatorsâ Dinner, UNHInnovation (UNHI) made good on its mission to recognize the full sweep of innovation, including intellectual property and creative work as well as more... -
Not Just the Heat, Itâs the Humans
When it comes to adapting to the changing environment of the Great Basin in the North American West, for small mammals, warming associated with climate change is only part of the problem: Humans have... -
Fresh, Local ⊠Kiwis?
If Iago Hale has his way, in a few years you may be topping your breakfast cereal with a handful of fresh kiwiberries you bought at your local farmerâs market. Thatâs right, local kiwi. In northern... -
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Not Rocket Science
UNHâs first-ever Aerospace and Defense Technology Day on Nov. 4 was part open house, part show-and-tell, part speed dating â and, according to the organizers, full success. The day brought 70... -
Omnivoreâs Delight
With the annual Local Harvest Dinner as the jewel in its locavore crown, UNH is a national leader in bringing local food â some of it grown right here on campus â to the hungry mouths of its students. -
NIH Grant Boosts NH's Biomedical Research Capacity
A five-year $18.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to a statewide partnership led by UNH and Dartmouthâs Geisel School of Medicine will expand biomedical research capacity and... -
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Inquiring Minds
Ìę Ìę The Big Burp Theory Geologists drill for climate clues About 55 million years ago, the Earth burped up a massive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere â anÌęamount equivalent to burning... -
More Than Mapping
Since its founding in 1999, UNHâs Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM), along with the complementary Joint Hydrographic Center (a NOAA partner), has established itself as the world leader in... -
Strong Muscles, Fleet Feet
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Crew Boss Rachel Rawlinson Named Northeast Region Coach of the Year
Rachel Rawlinson '99, head coach of UNH Rowing, was named the Northeast Region Coach of the Year by the American Collegiate Rowing Association at its national championship regatta May 23 -24 in... -
A (Nuclear) Force To Be Reckoned With
UNH physicist Patricia Solvignon has received a prestigious Early Career Research Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. -
The Dirt on Studio Soils
In 2010, about a decade into teaching the large Introduction to Soils course, UNH soil scientist Serita Frey steered her class into uncharted territory. With inspiration from the physics department... -
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For These UNH Students, It Is Rocket Science
Long before it blasts into space March 12, the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will have launched the careers of would-be rocket scientists who contributed to the mission as UNH... -
Out of the Clinic, Out of the Box
As part of her training to become a practicing occupational therapist, Risa LaPera â14,â15G talks to her client Dan, a retiree with vision loss due to glaucoma, through a radio headset. âYou still... -
Kelp Is On the Way
Seaweed has been on the menu for thousands of years, beloved particularly in Asia for packing a nutritional punch with the complex flavor of umami. Now, UNH researchers are hoping to tap locavore... -
Code Comfort
Do you want to build a snowflake? If so, youâll have to learn some code â but as nearly 40 elementary school children learned Friday afternoon (Dec. 12) at UNH, thatâs not so hard. With ubiquitous â... -
Turkey, Football, Snow
Gathering together: From left, Ron Potier, father of the hostess; UNH graduate students Xiaoyi Tang and Shivam Goyal; host Brent Bell, associate professor of kinesiology at UNH; Kathy Potier, mother... -
Good, Clean (Safe) Fun: Professor Showers for Lab Safety
Lab safety took a zany, soggy turn Tuesday, when the Environmental Research Group tapped Nancy Kinner, professor of civil and environmental engineering, for a hands-on demonstration of the emergency... -
MVP
When it comes to head and helmet safety, one of the NFLâs most valuable players isnât a quarterback, a receiver, or even a coach. In fact, Erik Swartz isnât a football player at allâthe former rugby... -
In Science We Trust?
Gun control. Abortion. The death penalty. You wouldnât be alone in assuming that these are the hot-button issues that create the widest philosophical and political divide between Republicans and... -
Keeping Their Heads OUT of the Game
Once a week, several dozen UNH football players participate in an innovative, if counterintuitive, drill to minimize head trauma: They remove their helmets and tackle each other. -
CAREER Builder: Three UNH Faculty Members Receive Prestigious Awards
Three UNH faculty members have received prestigious National Science Foundation awards to support their work predicting earthquakes, recycling carbon dioxide into fuel and measuring methane bubbles. -
A Great Day To Be a Bobcat
New Hampshireâs bobcats are on the rise âÌęand on the move, showing up in places theyâve never been reported before. Those are the major findings from a four-year study of the animal that puts the â... -
Green and White
The rate of winter warming has tripled in the U.S. since 1970. The northern hemisphere has lost one million square miles of spring snowpack in the last 50 years. As many as half the ski resorts in... -
Itâs Alive!
A new project led by UNH engineers will transform the Memorial Bridge over the Piscataqua River into a âlivingâ bridge that could change the way we look at bridges and infrastructure in the near... -
Freshest Fish: Found!
Amanda Parks gets dressed for some fishing. Looking for a seafood dinner thatâs off-the-boat fresh? Wondering whether dogfish tastes better with butter or breadcrumbs? Thanks to senior Amanda Parks... -
The Oyster Is Their World
Steve Jones, research associate professor of natural resources and the environment and a water quality specialist, samples Great Bay with Ph.D. student Meg Hartwick. Consider the gifts of the oyster... -
Glacial Race
Courtesy Photo It only sounds like a joke: When the worldâs fastest-moving glacier sped up in the summer of 2012 â suddenly surging from Greenlandâs west coast at four times its 1990s rate â UNH... -
UNH Professor Is NFL's MVP for Equipment Research
When the NFL wanted to evaluate the impact of non-standard facemasks on player safety, they turned to UNH kinesiology professor Erik Swartz for the data. His findings led to the leagueâs much-... -
Global OT
As an occupational therapist, Tracey Ellis â93 is trained to solve problems. ÌęSo when her Washington, D.C.-based Ellis Therapeutic Consultants began delivering occupational therapy (OT) to American... -
Reduce, Reuse, Peecycle
Visitors to downtown Durham this spring might have noticed students sporting an unusual accessory: a sticker with a yellow droplet on it proclaiming "I donated my nitrogen." No personal sacrifice was... -
Gone Fishinâ
On Wednesday, April 16 UNH will host its first Sustainable Seafood Dinner at Holloway Commons from 4:30 to 9:00 p.m. The dinner will highlight locally caught seafood and New Englandâs fishing... -
A Step Ahead
Student Sarah Drumheller and her internship supervisor Elizabeth Barbin talk with a patient at Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital. -
Golden Opportunity
Conversations with Katey Stone â89 about her jobâhead coach for Harvard womenâs ice hockey on hiatus to coach the U.S. womenâs Olympic hockey teamâare sprinkled with words like âfun,â âjoy,â â... -
Pre-Med, With Feeling
Why would anyone leave Chocolatetown, U.S.A., for a state that brags about granite? For Hershey, Penn., native Ben Claxton â14, the lure was the lab. Specifically, the opportunity for the pre-med... -
Strawberry Fields...for Now
Jenny Jing â13 loves strawberries, and thatâs a good thing. Sheâs worked in the lab of professor Tom Davis, a leading strawberry genetics researcher, for three years. -
UNH Students Compete in Washington, D.C., With Innovative Wind Energy Project
A Âé¶čapp student project seeking to harvest the wind energy from bridge underpasses has been selected to compete for the Environmental Protection Agencyâs (EPA) People,... -
UNH Student Wins Third Place in Science Competition
A first-year student at the Âé¶čapp is a top-three United States finisher in an international science competition. Sarah Kremer â15, an ecology, evolution, and behavior major from... -
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UNH Research Brings New Understanding to Past Global Warming Events
A series of global warming events called hyperthermals that occurred more than 50 million years ago had a similar origin to a much larger hyperthermal of the period, the Pelaeocene-Eocene Thermal...