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You Were That White Bird: Poems

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by Shelley Girdner
Bauhan (May 10, 2016)

Shelley Girdner鈥檚 first full-length poetry collection looks at the lifespan of a relationship鈥揻rom the beginning of love until its end, and how different it can look with time and distance. Her poems combine birds and biblical imagery with modern relationships.

Alumna Tells History of NH Activism in Rye

Lisa Moll, an alumna of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program, has turned her 91制片厂 research paper into a book, "Rye鈥檚 Battle of the Century: Saving the New Hampshire Seacoast from Olympic Oil." Moll tells the story of the 1973 effort by Aristotle Onassis鈥 oil company to build a refinery using the Isles of Shoals as a docking station for tankers. The residents of Rye, N.H., learning of the massive affects to the natural beauty of both shoreline and shoals, and fearing the environmental consequences of a spill, successfully fought to defeat the initiative.

Ellen Fitzpatrick Receives 2017 Lindberg Award

Ellen Fitzpatrick, professor of history, has been selected as the 2017 recipient of the Lindberg Award, given annually to the outstanding teacher-scholar in the College of Liberal Arts.

Professor Fitzpatrick was appointed to the 91制片厂 faculty in 1997 as associate professor after serving eight years on the faculty of Harvard. She previously taught at MIT and Wellesley. She earned her Ph.D. at Brandeis.

Article in Historical New Hampshire Details Carnegie Contribution to Hamilton Smith Library

Susan Siggelakis, associate professor of political science, has written an article about the negotiations that led to the building of Hamilton Smith Library in 1907. "'A Plain, Dignified Building': Negotiating for an Academic Carnegie Library in Durham" will appear in the spring 2017 issue of听, a publication of the New Hampshire Historical Society.