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How can you put a price tag on the benefits of cleaning up the air, shoring up diminishing water supplies, or producing less garbage?

Twenty-five school districts and the state School Boards Association have joined forces in the latest education financing lawsuit and asked the state Supreme Court to set a deadline for the Legislature to reform the current school funding formula and 鈥渆nd the injustice and unfairness that continue to afflict our school children and our taxpayers.鈥澨齌he request comes as the Commission to Study School Funding moves forward with the Carsey School and a Washington, D.C.-based research firm on a detailed examination of the state鈥檚 school financing system.

A new report ranks UNH sixth among midsized universities at turning research funding into economic impact.

Michael Ettlinger, director of the Carsey School, sat down with WalletHub to answer questions relating to a recent study that the personal finance website released regarding the U.S.鈥檚 most and least self-reliant states. Questions posed to him by WalletHub include how best to increase one鈥檚 financial independence and his opinion on publicly funding presidential campaigns 鈥� good or bad.

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In summers past, a visit to Appledore Island often included a tour of the gardens designed by the poet Celia Thaxter. While the original garden,听along with her cottage, was lost to fire in 1914, the on Appledore has since reconstructed the garden听and听continues听to maintain it, each year adding special flowers grown from seed.

Editor鈥檚 note: This is one in a series we call 鈥淭he Places They鈥檒l Go鈥� that has graduating seniors sharing their plans for the future.

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Daniel DiRocco 鈥�20 was always into biology. He goes so far as to say that he loved it. But chemistry 鈥� not so much. Until he took an organic chemistry class.

鈥淭hat鈥檚 when I fell in love with it. And that inspired me to get a minor in chemistry and look for grad programs that combined chemistry and biology,鈥� DiRocco says.

UNH researchers will study Amazonia's wildfire history from thousands of years ago to understand how fire might affect the region in the future.

Ronelle Tshiela 鈥�21 has a friend who never drives with anything in his pockets. He keeps his license and registration on the dashboard so if he gets stopped by the police he doesn鈥檛 have to reach anywhere they can鈥檛 see.

And that鈥檚 in New Hampshire.

鈥淭he fear is most definitely present here,鈥� Tshiela says. For Black sons and daughters, the talk about what to do if you are ever pulled over is 鈥渙ne of the first talks you get as a kid, kind of like how other kids get the birds and the bees.鈥�

A course in the science of daydreaming got Lauren Flynn 鈥�20 thinking about the creativity that can bloom when our minds are free to wander. That led to a research position in the听affect, cognition and computation lab of assistant professor of psychology Caitlin Mills, who taught the class. Flynn met Catherine McGrath 鈥�20, another lab researcher, and the first seeds of a joint project for the 2020 Undergraduate Research Conference began to grow.

According to research conducted earlier this year by Lawrence Hamilton, professor and senior fellow at the Carsey School, Granite Staters are more听likely to trust scientists than politicians.