/unhtoday/feed/25/rss.xml 91制片厂 Today Articles en /unhtoday/2025/12/mayer-receives-distinguished-professor-award-2025 Get to know聽John (Jack) Mayer, the recipient of 91制片厂's聽2025 Distinguished Professor Award, given out during 91制片厂's annual Faculty Excellence celebration in November. Mayer was referred to as a "bit of a rock star" by a colleague in his nomination, lauded for his dedication to students and down-to-earth demeanor.聽 "As a teacher, he has a lot of diverse ideas, and he really promotes a lot of broad exploration," says Beth Caldwell, senior lecturer in psychology. 聽 ]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:30 -0500 /unhtoday/2025/12/mayer-receives-distinguished-professor-award-2025 /unhtoday/2025/12/space-heal-how-lifeline-support-unh-helped-student-rebuild-after-crisis Mikaela Belanger 鈥�26 knows better than most how dramatically life can change in the blink of an eye. For years, she dreamed of saving enough to purchase her mother a house, only to wind up without a home herself when her mom abruptly kicked her out of the apartment they shared following a mental health episode almost exactly one year ago. Just like that, she went from serving as her mother鈥檚 primary caretaker through a battle with cancer to facing off with her across a courtroom. There鈥檚 no better illustration of the power of donor support than a story like Mikaela鈥檚, and now is a great time to make a gift to support 91制片厂 students. Donor generosity fuels the experiences that define a 91制片厂 education, and whether you give to a student basic needs fund or to any area of the university that... ]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:30 -0500 Keith Testa /unhtoday/2025/12/space-heal-how-lifeline-support-unh-helped-student-rebuild-after-crisis /unhtoday/2025/12/new-unh-certificate-prepares-social-workers-support-student-mental-health 91制片厂 is launching a new online Trauma-Informed School Social Work Graduate Certificate in spring 2026 to help address New Hampshire鈥檚 shortage of school-based mental health professionals. The program trains social workers to support student well-being and collaborate with educators through trauma-informed practices, offering flexible access for both current MSW students and licensed professionals across the state. ]]> Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:00 -0500 Aaron Sanborn /unhtoday/2025/12/new-unh-certificate-prepares-social-workers-support-student-mental-health /unhtoday/2025/11/joyful-acts-writing Those who happened to walk by Rooms 334鈥�340 of the MUB on聽Oct. 30聽might have noticed a group of younger-than-usual students deep in thought and creation 鈥� pens, markers, pages of text, pipe cleaners, and glue sticks spilling across their shared group tables. Every so often, one might have stood聽up to hang a poem-leaf on the 鈥減oet-tree鈥� in the corner or deliver a molded clay creature to a display set up on a windowsill at the edge of the room. Every October since 2019, assistant research professor of education Bethany Silva, who also directs 91制片厂鈥檚 Community Literacy Center, and associate professor of English Alecia Magnifico have been coordinating a lively party for writing on campus in honor of the National Day on Writing. For three years now, that has included hosting eighth graders... ]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:00 -0500 Katie Umans /unhtoday/2025/11/joyful-acts-writing /unhtoday/2025/11/henn-honored-2025-jean-brierley-award-excellence-teaching Meet Mark Henn, principal lecturer in the 91制片厂 psychology department, who was named the recipient of the 2025 Jean聽Brierley Award for Excellence in Teaching - 91制片厂's highest level of recognition for excellence in the classroom. Henn has been a part of the psychology department at 91制片厂 since 1984, first as a graduate student and now as a principal lecturer. His enthusiasm remains as vibrant as ever, as highlighted in his nomination for the award: "Walk past one of his classrooms and you might see him climbing on tables, dramatically yelling 'yes!'聽in response to a student insight, drawing connections between course content and that day鈥檚 headlines, or even lying on a bed of nails. His teaching is dynamic, engaging, and deeply human. He challenges students to think critically, stay curious,... ]]> Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:30 -0500 /unhtoday/2025/11/henn-honored-2025-jean-brierley-award-excellence-teaching /unhtoday/2025/11/faculty-excellence-celebration-recognizes-outstanding-unh-educators Every year, a chosen few of 91制片厂鈥檚 outstanding faculty members from each college and school receive Faculty Excellence Awards in recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service. University-wide awards recognize public service, research, teaching and engagement. The 2025聽award recipients include: Melissa Aikens, 2025 Excellence in Teaching Award, COLSA Aikens exemplifies excellence in teaching through her dedication to transforming the student experience in the life sciences. She has been the cornerstone of Biology 412, a large Discovery D-Lab course, reshaping it into a model of evidence-based pedagogy. Through active learning, peer instruction, and innovative group work, she has created a welcoming and rigorous classroom environment that deepens student... ]]> Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:45 -0500 /unhtoday/2025/11/faculty-excellence-celebration-recognizes-outstanding-unh-educators /unhtoday/2025/11/unh-launches-reimagined-journalism-major The 91制片厂 will launch a reimagined聽Journalism and Media Studies program next year, focused on equipping students with both the practical skills the profession demands and the聽theoretical and analytic training to navigate an evolving media landscape in thoughtful and ethical ways.聽 The new interdisciplinary program will bring together courses from the English and communication departments focusing on basic reporting skills, like writing and editing, but also essential experience in more contemporary forms of reporting like podcasting, multimedia, and documentaries. Other skills include media literacy required to navigate the modern fast-paced news environment with special attention to disinformation, artificial intelligence, and other emerging challenges. 鈥淚 am... ]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:30 -0500 Robbin Ray 鈥�82 /unhtoday/2025/11/unh-launches-reimagined-journalism-major /unhtoday/2025/10/archaeology-dig-showcases-power-community-connections In partnership with a landowner in nearby Madbury, 91制片厂 Professor Meghan Howey and her colleagues were able to identify the site of a 1701 garrison known as the Meserve Garrison, completing a dig at the site that contained not only the foundation but some additional artifacts from the colonial period. ]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:00 -0400 Keith Testa /unhtoday/2025/10/archaeology-dig-showcases-power-community-connections /unhtoday/2025/10/history-professor-explores-wars-impact-global-societies The impact of war on societies across the globe from the third to sixteenth centuries is the subject of a new book by David Bachrach, professor of history. 鈥淲arfare in the Global Middle Ages鈥� (Routledge Press, 2025) explores how societies in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas organized for war, engaged in conflict, and coped with its aftermath. 聽 The book, intended for academic historians as well as for an interested lay public, treats warfare in the context of world history by examining both parallel developments and interactions between societies across the globe during this time period. 鈥淗umans have always engaged in war,鈥� Bachrach says. 鈥淥ne key, therefore, to understanding how human beings organize themselves socially, politically, economically, religiously, and in every other... ]]> Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:30 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/10/history-professor-explores-wars-impact-global-societies /unhtoday/2025/10/history-professor-pens-canal-dreamers Associate professor of history Jessica Lepler's new book "Canal Dreamers" tells the story of an 1820s attempt to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Nicaragua. ]]> Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:45 -0400 Beth Potier /unhtoday/2025/10/history-professor-pens-canal-dreamers /unhtoday/2025/09/war-and-treaties-constitution Every year, schools and government agencies join the nation in observing聽Constitution Day and Citizenship Day聽the week before and after Sept. 17, the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Federal courts participate by offering educational resources and experiences in their communities. Below, 91制片厂 associate professor Will Smiley聽shares a piece entitled "War and Treaties in the Constitution." To read this piece and other essays by 91制片厂 faculty around Constitution Day, click here. We tend to think about the Constitution as a domestic, American document: it sets the structure of the federal government; it allocates power between the federal government and the states, and between the president, Congress, and judiciary; and it鈥攐r rather, its amendments鈥攇uarantee individual rights. But... ]]> Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:15 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/09/war-and-treaties-constitution /unhtoday/2025/09/universal-injunctions-and-constitution Every year, schools and government agencies join the nation in observing聽Constitution Day and Citizenship Day聽the week before and after Sept. 17, the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. Federal courts participate by offering educational resources and experiences in their communities. Below, 91制片厂 associate professor of political science聽Susan Siggelakis聽pens a piece entitled聽"Universal Injunctions and the Constitution."聽To read this piece and other essays by 91制片厂 faculty around Constitution Day, click here. Decades of polling data show that few people closely follow decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Further, the public has high levels of ignorance about all things judicial. Some of this is due to scant, often incorrect media coverage of the federal judiciary as well... ]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:00 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/09/universal-injunctions-and-constitution /unhtoday/2025/09/building-better-childcare-system-new-hampshire A Carsey School expert breaks down the complicated landscape of childcare in New Hampshire. ]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:45 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/09/building-better-childcare-system-new-hampshire /unhtoday/2025/09/gilman-scholarships-send-unh-students-five-continents The Benjamin A. Gillman International Scholarship will send 91制片厂 students to study in nine countries and five continents between this summer and the spring of 2026, as the university boasted 13 recipients during the recent spring cycle. 91制片厂 students will study in Ireland, Greece, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Italy, Hungary, Spain, Kenya, and China thanks to the award. The Gilman scholarship provides awards to Pell grant-eligible students who are studying or interning abroad for credit. Including nine students who accepted Gilman scholarships during last fall鈥檚 cycle, 91制片厂 had 22 recipients during the last academic year (In 2021, the U.S. State Department recognized 91制片厂 as a top producer of Gilman Scholars in the country as part of the 20th anniversary of the program). This year鈥檚 recipients are... ]]> Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:45 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/09/gilman-scholarships-send-unh-students-five-continents /unhtoday/2025/08/four-recent-grads-secure-fulbright-grants-study-internationally Four recent 91制片厂 graduates were named Fulbright recipients this spring, earning grants that will allow them to further their education in Scotland, Jordan, Germany, and Taiwan, respectively. Jake Gehrung 鈥�20, Silas McIntire 鈥�23, Sydney Seaver 鈥�24 and Madison Smith 鈥�23 received the recognition. Additionally, Lina Adjout 鈥�21 was recognized as an alternate. The Fulbright program is 鈥渢he flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries,鈥� according to the program website. The Program operates in more than 160 countries worldwide. Jake Gehrung. Gehrung, from Walpole, New Hampshire, received the Fulbright to pursue a MSc in sustainable... ]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:15 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/08/four-recent-grads-secure-fulbright-grants-study-internationally /unhtoday/2025/06/how-would-reduced-indirect-costs-affect-unh-research What are indirect costs, and how does the government's proposal of reducing them affect research at 91制片厂?聽 ]]> Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/06/how-would-reduced-indirect-costs-affect-unh-research /unhtoday/2025/06/la-paz-26-first-unh-student-receive-beinecke-scholarship Jesus La Paz 鈥�26 became the first 91制片厂 student to ever receive the Beinecke Scholarship, a prestigious award given to 20 students nationwide each year that provides support for graduate education in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. 91制片厂 applied to become a participating institution for the Beinecke Scholarship last year, making La Paz the first ever 91制片厂 nominee, as well (participating institutions are only allowed to nominate one student per year). He was selected from a pool of 93 candidates to receive the scholarship, which will provide $35,000 of financial support toward his graduate education as well as mentorship from the Beinecke program. 鈥淩eceiving the Beinecke Scholarship means being able to pursue my academic interests without worrying too much about funding my education... ]]> Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:45 -0400 Keith Testa /unhtoday/2025/06/la-paz-26-first-unh-student-receive-beinecke-scholarship /unhtoday/2025/05/weekend-commencement-festivities-celebrates-2025-graduates The 91制片厂 celebrated commencement weekend with three ceremonies on the Durham campus and one at the 91制片厂 Franklin Pierce School of Law May 16 and 17, bringing huge crowds of family and friends together to send the graduates off. The three Durham ceremonies filled the Whittemore Center with capacity crowds, beginning Saturday morning with a celebration for the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences and Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. That was followed by a ceremony for the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Professional Studies and the Carsey School of Public Policy and a ceremony for the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture and the College of Health and Human Services. The 91制片厂 Franklin Pierce School of Law kicked the weekend off with a... ]]> Tue, 20 May 2025 10:00 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/05/weekend-commencement-festivities-celebrates-2025-graduates /unhtoday/2025/05/granite-state-systems-earns-top-prize-holloway-competition A team that developed a system that reduces electricity costs for cold-storage warehouses through predictive pricing and strategic pre-cooling earned the $15,000 grand prize at the 37th Paul J. Holloway Prize Innovation to Market Competition. 聽 聽 ]]> Wed, 07 May 2025 10:15 -0400 Aaron Sanborn /unhtoday/2025/05/granite-state-systems-earns-top-prize-holloway-competition /unhtoday/2025/04/what-does-pope-franciss-death-mean-catholics-and-catholicism Michele Dillion, a professor of sociology and expert in Catholicism, shares insights about the legacy of Pope Francis. ]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:30 -0400 Robbin Ray 鈥�82 /unhtoday/2025/04/what-does-pope-franciss-death-mean-catholics-and-catholicism /unhtoday/2025/04/unh-student-awarded-prestigious-graduate-fellowship 91制片厂 undergraduate student Leandra Bryant 鈥�25 has received the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)聽from the National Science Foundation. Awarded to students pursuing master鈥檚 and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support, with an annual stipend and tuition allowance. ]]> Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:00 -0400 Sarah Schaier /unhtoday/2025/04/unh-student-awarded-prestigious-graduate-fellowship /unhtoday/2025/04/our-superpower Meet some of 91制片厂鈥檚 earliest-career researchers: undergraduates. ]]> Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:15 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/04/our-superpower /unhtoday/2025/04/honors National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Awards聽聽 Aleksey Charapko聽聽 Assistant professor of computer science聽 Linqing Li聽聽 Assistant professor of chemical engineering聽 Tracy Mandel聽聽 Assistant professor of mechanical engineering聽 Faculty Honors Shawna Hollen聽聽 Associate professor of physics聽 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator聽 Stuart Grandy Professor of soil biogeochemistry and fertility聽 Soil Science Society of America Fellow聽 Soil Ecology Society Professional Achievement Award聽 Christopher Bauer聽聽 Professor of chemistry聽聽 American Chemical Society Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry Award聽 Michael McCann聽 Associate dean and professor, 91制片厂 Franklin Pierce School of Law聽 Association of American Law... ]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:00 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/04/honors /unhtoday/2025/04/honors-0 Selected accolades to our faculty and graduate students. ]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:00 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/04/honors-0 /unhtoday/2025/04/nossrat-yassini-poetry-festival-readies-second-annual-celebration Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, entrepreneur and philanthropist and executive director of the 91制片厂 Broadband Center of Excellence, can claim as his professional legacy key roles in some significant broadband advancements, including inventing the cable modem and establishing cable modem industry standards. At first glance, founding a poetry festival would seem something of an incongruous addition to that list of achievements. But Yassini-Fard had strong motivation for doing just that 鈥� he made the gift that established the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival at 91制片厂 to honor the life of his mother. ]]> Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:30 -0400 /unhtoday/2025/04/nossrat-yassini-poetry-festival-readies-second-annual-celebration