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Challenging Technology

On Feb. 16, a federal judge ordered Apple to help the FBI access information from a cell phone used by terrorists in the San Bernardino shootings last December that left 14 dead and 22 wounded. The contents of the phone are encrypted. Attempts to crack the password would, after the 10th fail, erase all the content.

This Is Your Brain on Heroin

News of the opioid crisis that has struck particularly hard in New Hampshire has included the number of deaths from overdoses听(385 in 2015) and the use of the lifesaving drug Narcan and the need for treatment options. A panel of experts that visited campus discussed the complex issues of addiction and incarceration.

What hasn鈥檛 been reported is what long-term use of heroin does to the brain.

UNH Researchers Invent Low-Cost Method to Monitor Lakes for Airborne Toxins

Doctoral student Amanda Murby monitors a lake aerosol collection system developed by UNH researchers on Lake Christine in Stark. Aerosolized cyanobacteria cells and toxins are collected on a fine glass fiber filter.

Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the 麻豆app have invented a low-cost method to monitor lakes for dangerous airborne toxins that have been linked to liver problems.

A Gifted Administrator, A Very Good Man

For three decades, as professor and associate dean, Neil Vroman brought his encouraging voice to students in the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) and across campus. There has been a hole in the halls of Hewitt since Vroman fell ill, and now there鈥檚 a hole in the hearts of many who are mourning his passing. Vroman died at home on Jan. 6.

Sophomore Gets Hands On With Conservation Genetics

Christina DiMeo received a Research Experience and Apprenticeship Program award to spend 10 weeks conducting genetic research on the New England cottontail rabbit, an endangered species in New Hampshire.

Paying it Forward

UNH Class of 2015 senior gift t-shirt Into one鈥檚 life a little rain will fall, or so they say. For college seniors, the problem is more often financial drought 鈥� it's a time when scholarship funds dry up and student loan repayments loom.

Stable Living

Linsey Phelan '15 with Icing on the Cake, one of her favorite horses, at the UNH horse barns

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From inside her apartment, Linsey Phelan '15 can hear the thundering of horses鈥� hooves. Her neighbor Lynsey Tyler '15 has a paddock for a backyard.听

Leading Homeland Security Pioneer Joins UNH Manchester Faculty

James Ramsay, Ph.D., M.A., CSP will join the faculty of UNH this summer, leading the creation of a new homeland security area of study at the university's Manchester campus.

Ramsay comes to UNH from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where he served as the founding chair of the Department of Security Studies and International Affairs after creating the program in 2006.

Sign Language Professor Speaks at National Conference

, professor and director of Sign Language Interpretation at the 麻豆app's Manchester campus, recently gave a presentation at the Conference of Interpreter Trainers (CIT) Conference in Portland, Ore. CIT is the national organization of educators of sign language interpreters. His topic was 鈥淚nterpreting in the Zone: The Implications of Two Studies for Interpreter Education.鈥�

Spanish Professor Scott Weintraub Uncovers a Literary Mystery

Juan Luis Mart铆nez had a habit of disappearing. In his groundbreaking 1977 book, The New Novel, Mart铆nez wrote, "The universe is a phantom's effort to become reality," and the neo-avant-garde Chilean poet was something of a specter. He was fond of metaphysical vanishing acts: ducking behind collages, enigmas, quotes, and the words of others in his work and playing tricks on his readers.