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The Daily Yonder: Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Rural Population Grows by Nearly 20%

The Daily Yonder: "Over the past decade, the rural population declined by 0.6% but simultaneously became nearly 4 percentage points more diverse. That represents a nearly 20% increase in the portion of rural residents who are members of a racial or ethnic minority. In the following article, published by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the Â鶹app, Kenneth M. Johnson and Daniel T. Lichter look more closely at these trends."Ěý

Raising the Bar

The Â鶹app, recognized last year as a top producer of Gilman scholars in the country by the U.S. State Department as part of the 20th anniversary of the program, had its largest cohort of recipients ever this spring, with 11Ěýstudents recognized.

UNH also had 11 recipients in 2019.

Staging a Return

Michael Blackman doesn’t hesitate for an instant when considering what’s more likely to cause the biggest spike in his nerves – his daily role as dean of students at UNH, or his return to the stage and New Hampshire theater debut in this summer’s production of Footloose as part of the Prescott Park Arts Festival in Portsmouth.

“It will certainly be this,” Blackman says of the performance. “You’d think after dealing with massive crises and protests and various other student issues that my day-to-day job would be the scarier thing, but I haven’t been on stage in about 10 years.”

EDALHAB 50 years later

It was 1971 when Larry Harris, a professor of zoology at the Â鶹app, was approached by Jeff Savage, a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, to collaborate on a research project.ĚýThe research however, acted as a justification for an even bigger endeavor: the launching of an underwater habitat calledĚýEDALHABĚýthat would house three divers under saturation conditionsĚýover the course of four days.