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Fall 2011

University of New Hampshire at Manchester

Tis all, the UNH Manchester chapter o the international organization Students or aFree ibet (SF) will host two public eventson campus. Formed last spring by studentSarah Emberley and aculty member CarolynGamtso, the group celebrates the unique

culture o ibetand supportsibetans in theirquest or politicalautonomy,religious reedom,and culturalpreservation.

he group’sevents willrecognize thestrength andresiliency o theibetan people,

who or sixty years have joined their exiledspiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in a non- violent struggle or justice or their Chinese-occupied homeland. Te UNH ManchesterSF club plans to host insightul,educational events here at the college, while

supporting local, national, and internationalibetan causes.

This fall’s events include a screening of

the lm 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

followed by a discussion facilitated by

Intercultural Teacher Michelle Bos-lun; and

a screening of the lm Journey from Zanskar

followed by a discussion led by Tibetan

teacher Geshe Lobsang Yonten.

For more information, see the events

poster in this issue. To learn more about

UNH Manchester SFT, contact Sarah [email protected].

New Student Club Celebrates Tibetan Culture

UNH Manchester will host therst EDx event in Southern NewHampshire on Saturday, October 15.EDxAmoskeagMillyard was created inthe spirit o ED’s mission to bring peopletogether rom three worlds: echnology,Entertainment, and Design. Te programwill give change agents, academics, activists,

young proessionals, artists, and businessleaders rom NH the opportunity to shareideas and collaborate through ED-likeexperiences at the local level.

Te theme or this year’sEDxAmoskeagMillyard event is TeUnexpected and will eature a screening o live and pre-recorded EDalk videos romNew Hampshire’s thought leaders as wellas live musical perormances. Conrmedspeakers include Howard Brodsky, CEO,CCA Global Partners; Ziba Cranmer, VP

Cause Branding, Cone; Dean Kamen,Founder, FIRS; Gary Hirshberg, CEO,

Stonyeld Farm; Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO,DYN; Catherine Rielly, Board President o Rubia; and ym Rourke, NH CharitableFoundation. Lauren Verge will hostEDxAmoskeagMillyard.

ED (www.ted.com) is a global oundationdevoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It startedout in 1984 as a conerence bringing together

people rom technology, entertainment, anddesign. ED is now a platorm and a globalmovement ocused on meaningul changethrough the power o ideas. EDx (www.ted.com/tedx) independently organizedevents are designed to give communities,organizations and individuals theopportunity to stimulate dialogue throughED-like experiences at the local level.

Please visit tedxamoskeagmillyard.com or more inormation. FollowEDxAmoskeagMillyard on witter at

tedxamoskeagmil and Facebook at www.acebook.com/EDxAmoskeagMillyard.

– The Unexpected

IN THIS ISSUE

2 Dean’s Corner

3 Community Cinema

5 Critical Foreign Policy Issuesat the 2012 Ballot Box

7 Class Notes

12 Food or Thought

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Other Programs Happening at UNH ManchesterHigh School Open House

Tour our campus, meet proessors, talk with students, and learn about the UNHManchester experience rom alumni and sta. RSVP by calling 603-641-4150.

Families are welcomed.

Tuesday, November 8, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., third foor auditorium

Books Homeront Impact in a World at War

Join UNH Manchester librarians and book group guest leaders todiscuss these works. Please call the library at 641-4173 or moreinormation. All events are held in the library mezzanine.

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo | Thursday, September 15, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

Coventry by Helen Humphreys | Thursday, October 20, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

The Breaking Wave by Nevil Shute | Thursday, November 17, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

50% of the world’s population livesin urban areas. By 2050, this gureis expected to increase to 80%. Theresult will be an explosion of hugemegacities posing serious local andglobal challenges. “Cities on Speed,”a four-part documentary, examines thechallenges facing four of the fastestgrowing megacities. Discussion followingeach lm will be led by Robert Macieski,associate professor of history.

All events are held in thethird oor auditorium.

Film SeriesBOGOTA CHANGE Tues., Oct. 4, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

SHANGHAI SPACE

Tues., Oct. 18, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

CAIRO GARBAGE

Tues., Nov. 8, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

MUMBAI DISCONNECTED

Thurs., Oct. 27, 11:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.

www.unhm.unh.edu/events

for more detailed event information

Currier Museum o Art, 150 Ash Street, Manchester, NH

A cappella middle and high school groups rom across New Hampshire will perormin a riendly competition. Ticket sales will sponsor collegiate scholarships or theparticipants. Visit www.voicesothe603.com or more inormation.

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Art Farm Visit – This all the library will exhibit the artwork o Molly A. Poole o New Boston, New Hampshire. Theexhibit titled, Farm Visit: a selection o watercolor and casein paintings, will be on display in the library August22 through December 15, 2011. Visit www.granitedog.com or more inormation.

Booked or LunchThis new lunchtime book club is sponsored by the UNH Manchester Library and the Oce o Student Activities. Alldiscussions will be held in the library and acilitated by a member o the library sta. Bring lunch, and we’ll providedessert! Here’s the semester’s line-up o novels and flm adaptations:

Monday, September 26, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. | The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Monday, October 24, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. | Crossing by Andrew Fukuda

Monday, November 21, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. | Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Community CinemaUNH Manchester is partnering with NH Public Television to bring compelling documentaries to the Greater Manchestercommunity. Community Cinema is a groundbreaking public education and civic engagement initiative eaturing ree

monthly screenings o flms rom the Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens. Faculty rom communicationarts, history, politics & society and other UNH Manchester academic programs will acilitate flm discussions.

Peace Unveiled | Wednesday, September 28, 6:30 p.m., Third foor auditorium

Dea Jam | Wednesday, October 26, 6:30 p.m., Third foor auditorium

We Still Live Here (Âs Nutayuneân) | Wednesday, November 30, 6:30 p.m., Third foor auditorium

Lioness | Wednesday, December 14, 6:30 p.m., Third foor auditorium

For more inormation, contact the library at 641-4173.

RSVP to [email protected].

The Face o Jesus: Veronica’s Veil in Art and History | Wednesday, September 28, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

Since the Middle Ages, artists have used their talents to recreate “portraits”o the Christian redeemer. Veronica’s Veil, atreasured relic o their Lord’s passion, has provided or centuries a reerence point or the ace o Jesus in the history o art.Presented by Andrew Laurie Stangel, adjunct proessor o art history

Seeds o Revolution: The French and Indian War | Wednesday, November 16, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

The war with the French takes dramatic turns that produce, riots, heroes, patriotism, and eventually... revolution. Mowerexplores the roots o the American Revolution, as they are realized throughout the conict on the American continent.Presented Lowell Mower, senior in the history program and 2011 SURF grant recipient

Wednesday’s rom 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., Third foor auditorium

Critical ForeignPolicy Issues at the2012 Ballot Box

Primary Concerns

The series is coordinated by the World Aairs Council o New Hampshire and sponsoredby UNH Manchester’s history, humanities and politics and society programs. All events

are held in the third foor auditorium. Call 603-314-7970 or more inormation.

Tuesday, October 4 at 6:0 0 p.m. – The Middle EastDr. James Zogby, author o Arab Voices and the President o the Arab American Institute.

Tuesday, November 1, 6:00 p.m. – ChinaDr. Michael Santoro, Proessor o Business Ethics at Rutgers Business School.

Tuesday, November 29, 6:00 p.m. – Revolution, Regime Change and Democracy AbroadLorne W. Carner, President o the International Republican Institute and Kenneth Wollack, President o

the National Democratic Institute.

Tuesday, December 6, 6:00 p.m. – Global EconomyDr. Jery Frieden, Staneld Proessor o International Peace at Harvard University.

Funded by the Saul O SidoreMemorial Foundation

An exploration of what we eat and the impact on people and our planet FOOD for THOUGHT

Food Inc., Film Screening & Discussion Moderated by Michael Contarino, associate professor of political science at UNH Manchester,and Robert Macieski, associate professor of history at UNH Manchester

Tuesday, September 27, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Third oor auditorium

An End to Factory Farming: Protecting Animals, People, and Our PlanetPresented by Alexis Fox, MA State Director for the Humane Society of the United States

Wednesday, October 19, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Third oor auditorium

Te ABCs of Food Awareness

Presented by Dr. Kristen O’Dell, Naturopathic Physician and founder of Bedford Natural Medicine

Wednesday, October 26, 8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m., Third oor auditorium

A Farm for the Future, Online Film Screening Watch the ree BBC documentary flm online (topdocumentaryflms.com/arm-or-the-uture)

rom October 31-November 4 and post your comments on Twitter using #UNHM, or on the

college’s Facebook event page.

Renewing America’s Food raditions: Slow Food, Local Food, and

Backyard Diversity Presented by Ben Watson, author and co-founder of the Slow Food Monadnock Region chapter

Wednesday, November 16, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Third oor auditorium

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC , unless otherwise noted.

Parking is available in the Arms Lot, located behind our building, using the “pay

and display” system. Please call 603-641-4306 at least three weeks in advancei you need special accommodations. Events will be cancelled i the college is

closed due to inclement weather (snow line 603-641-4100).

Public Programs

Film Screening and Discussion:

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama, ollowed by a discussionacilitated by Intercultural Teacher Michelle Bos-lunFilmmaker and explorer Rick Ray traveled to Dharamsala, India, to pose a series o ethical

questions to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader o Tibet. This flm documents Ray’sinterview with the inspirational world fgure, as well as an exploration o Tibetan history and culture.Wednesday, September 21st, 6:30 p.m., Auditorium

Film Screening and Discussion: Journey from Zanskar: A Monk’s Vow to Children ,ollowed by a discussion acilitated by Tibetan Teacher Geshe Lobsang YontenZanskar is a remote part o northern India that is historically and ethnically Tibetan. In 2003, a Tibetan monk namedGeshe Lobsang Yonten began bringing groups o children rom Zanskar to schools in other parts o India to receive amodern education that still preserved Tibetan language, culture, and values. The children let their amilies to makethe very treacherous journey to reach these schools. This flm chronicles one o these yearly journeys.Thursday, October 13th, 6:00 p.m., Auditorium

UNH ManchesterStudents or a

FREE TIBET GROUP

Sponsored by the UNH ManchesterStudents or a Free Tibet Group.

Call Carolyn Gamtso at(603) 641-4172 to reserve a seat



UNH Manchester Advisory Board

The Board advises Interim Dean Sally Ward and

the college community concerning programs

and community outreach. They also help

increase the college’s visibility in the community

and serve as a resource to student s, staf, and aculty.

Kevin Clougherty

NH Department o Revenue AdministrationCommissioner

Jaye Gibson

Casinghino Law Oces

Administration

Jeremy Hitchcock

DynDNS - Dynamic Network Service

CEO, CFO

David Li

Elliot Hospital

Senior Vice President

Joseph Lovejoy

Baker, Newman & Noyes

Principal, retired

Stephanie McLaughlinSavoir-Faire Marketing & Communication

Principal

Bill Norton

Norton Asset Management

President

Ralph Sidore

Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation

Treasurer

Jay E. Taylor

City o Manchester

Economic Development Director, retired

Frank E. Wells

Hoyle, Tanner & Associates Senior Vice President

UNH Manchester provides peopleliving and working in the Merrimack

Valley region with a range o educational and cultural resources andopportunities. For more inormation,

please contact the Marketing &Community Relations Oce at 603-641-4306 or at [email protected].

Writing, Photography,Editing & Design by

Kim Lamarre-Wall

Public Relations Program Coordinator

Ginger Lever

Director o Marketing and Community Relations

Laura Piazza

Graphic Designer

Brian Tobin

Administrative Assistant

For more inormation about programsand activities visit www.unhm.unh.edu

D e a n ’ s C

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As I start my second year as the Interim Dean at UNHManchester, I am grateul or the opportunity I have hadto learn rom the aculty, students, and sta at this mostsignicant part o the state’s agship university.

New students have begun to come to campus, and continuingstudents have returned or the start o classes. Te students

bring wonderul energy and enthusiasm to campus and wealways look orward to how they transorm our community.

Faculty have arrived afer research, teaching, and reectiontime over the summer. Sta have geared up or the start o the new academic year, preparing as they always do so thatthe aculty and students are able to start new classes with ew

bumps and surprises.

We have great plans or the year. In addition to our usual courseoerings and opportunities or students, we have:

• a new graduate program in information technology

• a new website to be launched early in the semester

• courses in Chinese language for the rst time, a benet of thecreation o a Conucius Institute at UNH

• plans for a new urban studies major, a natural program of study or the university’s urban campus

Tere is much cause or optimism about the year ahead. Tere willbe challenges as well. Most importantly, we are still squeezed orspace, and state support to the university has been cut substantially.As we grapple with these challenges, we will, as always, work hard tomaintain the integrity and quality o our academic programs.

Te start o an academic year is always a time o high energy andrenewal, and this year is no dierent, despite our challenges. I look orward to continuing my work here with the exceptional aculty,sta, students, and community partners that make UNH Manchestersuch a special place.

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Sally K. Ward, Interim Dean

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Mission Statement: Mill Works tells the UNH Manchester story. Mill Works spotlights the accomplishments o UNH Manchester’s students, aculty and sta; proles academic programs; highlights alumni activities; reects

our community relationships; and provides inormation on upcoming events and services available to people inthe region. Mill Works is published twice a year (all and spring). It has a circulation o 12,000 and is published bythe UNH Manchester Marketing and Community Relations Ofce.

The 2nd annual “First Year Service Day” was held on Thursday, August 25th. Firstyear students, aculty, and sta worked together at either New Horizons or NewHampshire or the New Hampshire Food Bank. While providing support to these criticalnonprot organizations in the community participants also got to know each other.


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Faculty ExcellenceEach year UNH Manchester recognizesthe outstanding teaching o a residentialaculty member and an adjunct aculty

member. Te aculty excellence awardsrecognize aculty members who areinspiring, challenging and eectiveteachers whose concern and respect orstudents is evident both in and out o theclassroom.

om Birch (top), proessor o economics,was the recipient o the 2011 Faculty Excellence Award, and the recipient o theAdjunct eaching Award was MatthewDowd (bottom), adjunct proessor o philosophy.

Commencement 2011UNH Manchester’s 26th commencementon May 19, 2011 recognized more than 300undergraduate and graduate students whoearned their UNH associates, bachelors,or masters degree at the University o New

Hampshire’s urban campus in Manchester.Speakers included keynote speaker GovernorJohn Lynch and student speaker MatthewWithington. Te program included thepresentation o the aculty excellence awardsto Tomas Birch, proessor o economics andMathew Dowd, instructor o philosophy andthe 2011 Granite State Award to the CurrierMuseum o Art’s docents. Plans are wellunderway or the 2012 commencementproceedings which will have a new venue tobetter accommodate the estivities – a largetent in Arms Park on the river side o UNH

Manchester.

Community CinemaUNH Manchesteris partneringwith NewHampshire Publicelevision tobring compelling documentaries

to the Greater Manchestercommunity. Te project calledCommunity Cinema is onlocation in more than 95 citiesnationally, bringing togetherleading organizations, community members, and public televisionstations to learn, discuss, and getinvolved in key social issues o our time. Community Cinema is agroundbreaking public educationand civic engagement initiative

eaturing ree monthly screeningso lms rom the Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens.

Faculty rom communication arts,history, politics & society andother UNH Manchester academicprograms will acilitate lmdiscussions. Films will be shownon the ollowing Wednesdays inthe UNH Manchester auditoriumat 6:30 p.m. All lm screenings areree and open to the public.

September 28 – Peace Unveiled When the U.S. troop surge wasannounced in late 2009, women inAghanistan knew that the groundwas being laid or peace talks withthe aliban. Peace Unveiled ollowsthree women who immediately began to organize to make surethat women have a seat at thenegotiating table.

October 26 – Deaf JamNational poetry slams or youthhave been gaining momentumbut ew, i any, dea teens haveever been included in thesecontests. In Deaf Jam a group o New York City dea teens reveal

their passions, rustrations, andsenses o humor as they discoverAmerican Sign Language poetry –eventually stepping into the worldo the youth poetry slams withtheir hearing peers.

November 30 –We Still Live Here(Âs Nutayuneân)Te Wampanoag nation o southeastern Massachusettsensured the survival o the rstEnglish settlers in America,

and lived to regret it. ASNUAYUNEAN - We Still LiveHere tells the story o the returno the Wampanoag language,the rst time a language with noNative speakers has been revived

in this country. Spurred on by anindomitable linguist named JessieLittle Doe, the Wampanoag arebringing their language and theirculture back.

December 14 – LionessHow did ve emale Army sup-port soldiers – mechanics, supply clerks and engineers – end upghting alongside the Marines insome o the bloodiest counterin-surgency battles o the Iraq War?

Directors Meg McLagan and DariaSommers give an intimate look atwar through the eyes o the rstwomen in U.S. history sent intodirect ground combat, despite apolicy that bans them rom doingso. Trough harrowing personalstories, these women candidly share their experiences in Iraq aswell as rom their lives back hometo orm a portrait o the emotionaland psychological eects o war.



campus as an Orientation Leader,

Academic Monitor, and a PeerAssistant/Associate Leader (PAL)or the First Year Experience

Program; and Kourtney Auger orher work as a PAL.

Small Business CommitteeHearing at UNH Manchester

U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen(D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte(R-NH) hosted a U.S. Senate

Committee on Small Business andEntrepreneurship eld hearingthis August at UNH Manchester

to examine ways to help smallbusinesses increase their exportsand create jobs. Over 100 people

including many small business

owners attended.

Connecting Theory and PracticeExperience can make the dierencein a competitive job market.During the 2010-2011 academic

year, 78 UNH Manchester studentinterns developed marketable skillsand combined their academic

and practical experience as internsin non-prots, businesses, schools,government departments, andhealthcare.

Te American Red Cross inManchester, Nashua and Concord

hosted 11 interns. Studentsinterested in working or ordeveloping an understanding o

the media were hosted by NESN,CBS Radio, NH Public elevision,92.5 the River Broadcasting, NHPublic Radio, and NH Magazine.

NH Magazine intern, Christopher

Larochelle, ’11, English, had his

work published in the spring.

Te internship program benets thehost organization and the intern.Organizations are better positionedto achieve their goals and internsdevelop skills and an understand-ing o employer expectations. Last

year’s interns also developed adeeper sense o the issues acing thecommunity through their work atthe International Institute o NH;Te Brentwood School; Divisiono Children, Youth and Families(DCYF); local prisons; AmoskeagBusiness Incubator; rape and do-mestic violence crisis centers; PearlManor Nursing Home; FIRS; andMillyard Museum. For prot in-ternships rom 2010-2011 included:

Converse, Olive Garden, Schleun-inger, GI Fridays, and Siemens.

For more inormation about UNHManchester’s Internship program,contact Donna McIntire at 641-4327 or [email protected].

Campus Fall Open House

Te UNH Graduate School Man-chester Campus is hosting its allopen house or graduate programsin business administration, publicadministration, public health,social work, sofware systemsengineering, management o tech-nology, inormation technology,counseling, teacher education,educational administration & su-pervision, and teacher leadership.

It will provide an opportunity

or prospective students to meetwith representatives rom theirgraduate program o interestto learn more about the UNHcoursework that is available inManchester’s Millyard.

Te UNH Graduate SchoolManchester Campus is located at286 Commercial Street on the 4thoor. Te all open house is ree andopen to the public. RSVP to: [email protected] or 641-4313.


Student Wins College,District, and Regional AwardsEach spring, the Northeast

Association o StudentEmployment Administrators(NSEA) looks to supervisors and

students at colleges across the

Northeast to nominate studentemployees and supervisors who

they eel are especially worthy o recognition based on theirperormance on the job. Te

UNH Manchester Oce o Financial Aid coordinated thecollege’s competition this year

and celebrated with nominees at areception held in April 2011.

ruc Nguyen, a sophomore at

UNH Manchester, was named

the winner o this year’s UNHManchester, District 1 (NH, ME),

and Regional Student Employeeo the Year competitions. She wasselected rom among students

at 25 institutions who werenominated or the regional award,an extremely prestigious honor.

Nguyen began her UNH careerworking at the college’s Centeror Academic Enrichment (CAE)

while taking classes. Trough

the CAE she earned her CRLAMaster level tutoring certication

and currently tutors mathematics,chemistry, physics, and economics.

Other student nominees included

Melony omlinson, a sophomorein the business program,nominated or her work in the

college’s Academic Counselingand Registration Oces; AdamDiPippo, a junior in the biological

sciences program, or his work on

The 2011 SEOTY nominees include Adam DiPippo,Kourtney Auger, Truc Nguyen, and Melony Tomlinson

U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (left)and Kelly Ayotte (right)

Open House: Tuesday,October 11, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.



Student Research ShowcaseSince its inception, over 10 yearsago, the Undergraduate ResearchConerence (URC) has emerged asa dening event at the University.Te conerence is a weeklongcollege-wide celebration o the

quality and breadth o research,creativity, and scholarly work o students attending the University.As a college community, we takepride in the eorts o students andin the skill and dedication o theaculty who have guided them.

Tis year URC brought out morethan 50 students who sharedtheir research with the collegecommunity. Student work included short lms, screenplays,

poster presentations, andengineering technology seniorproject presentations. Support orthe event came rom BellwetherCommunity Credit Union.

UNH Graduate SchoolInormation SessionsI you are interested in exploringUNH graduate education, planto attend one o the inormationsessions hosted by the UNHGraduate School ManchesterCampus. Te sessions will beheld on the rst uesday o every month at 6:00 p.m. andwill provide an overview o theopportunities or graduate study

available in Manchester’s Millyard.

Te UNH Graduate SchoolManchester Campus is located at286 Commercial Street on the 4thoor. Te inormation sessions areree and open to the public. PleaseRSVP to: [email protected] or 603-641-4313.

Booked or Lunch

Why not take a break romyour daily routine by curlingup with a good novel and then

joining others or a lively book talk? “Booked or Lunch,” a newlunchtime book club sponsored by the UNH Manchester Library andthe Oce o Student Activities, isa great way to join up with otherswho want to talk about recentnovels. All discussions will be heldin the library and acilitated by amember o the library sta. Youbring lunch, and we’ll providedessert! Here’s the semester’s line-

up o novels and lm adaptations:Monday, September 26, Noon-1:00 p.m. Te Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Monday, October 24, Noon-1:00p.m. Crossing by Andrew Fukuda

Monday, November 21, Noon-1:00 p.m. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green andDavid Levithan

RSVP to [email protected]. For more inormation aboutthe Booked or Lunch series andor details about getting the books,contact the library at 641-4173.

MPA Student CompletesCongressional InternshipMatthew Spencer, UNH publicadministration graduate student,completed his capstone projectas a congressional intern or

U. S. Representative Frank

Guinta. Spencerdeveloped hands-on experienceworking onpublic policy projects in thecongressional

district andWashington DCoces.

“It was great tosee how the research that I assistedwith helped to shape currentlegislation,” said Spencer. “I wasable to see IntergovernmentalRelations in action whileworking with the EnvironmentalProtection Agency and NHDivision o Environmental

Services.”

Spencer took classes on both theDurham and the Manchestercampuses. He said, “I oundthat studying alongside workingpractitioners like reghters,police ocers and townadministrators made or robustclass discussions and gave depthand credibility to the learningenvironment.”

Critical Foreign PolicyIssues at the 2012 Ballot BoxTis all UNH Manchester willhost a our-part series on the topnational security issues acing theUnited States in the run up to the2012 New Hampshire Primary and the Presidential Election.

Te series is coordinated by the World Aairs Council o New Hampshire and oered in

partnership with Southern NewHampshire University. Nationally recognized speakers will sharetheir insights on the Middle East,China, revolution and regimechange, and democracy abroad,and the global economy. Allo the events will take place inUNH Manchester’s third oorauditorium and are ree and opento the public. See the poster insidethis issue or visit www.unhm.unh.

edu/events or more inormation.

Matthew Spencer pictured (left) withU. S. Representative Frank Guinta (right)

URC award winners included:

Poster Presentations

Award o Excellence: Matthew Douston,Plagues and Sickness in Antebellum Manchester

Honorable Mention: Daniel Pepin, AaronJarzombek, Brice Rader, Steven Simard,and Michael Tierney, Internship2Career Management System; and Lowell Mower,Colonial Manchester: Stark’s Fort

Film Presentations

Award o Excellence: Daniell Flynn, Get It On

Honorable Mention: Michael Fidyk, Paul Murphy and the Red Sox; Heather Anderson,Wherever I Am; and Andrew Casey, Severed

Engineering Technology Presentations

Award o Excellence: Brandon Bergeron, PT Castings - Tooling Manual


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Students in Free EnterpriseTe Students in Free Enterprise(SIFE) is an internationalnonprot organization that bringstogether a diverse network o university students, academic

proessionals and industry leadersaround the shared mission o creating a better, more sustainableworld through the positive powero business.

UNH Manchester launchedits SIFE program in 2009.Coordinated by Kelly Kilcrease,assistant proessor andcoordinator o the business

program, SIFE is open tosophomores, juniors and seniors.As a team, the students designoriginal business concepts thatimprove the quality o lie orpeople in need. Kilcrease said,“Te value o SIFE is really twoold. First, the community getshelp in areas o need by studentswho represent the best UNHManchester has to oer. Second,the students apply what they have

learned in the classroom in thereal world while also recognizingthe importance o helping others.”

SIFE projects have included NewHampshire’s rst pink tie benet

dinner to benet the Susan G.Komen or the Cure oundation;and an afernoon with a secondgrade class in Merrimack, NHwhere UNH Manchester students

taught the kids how to createand operate their own business.And, this year, while in Malawi,Arica a student in the program volunteered her time at anorphanage contributing to themanuacturing and sales o quilts.

Each spring students romthroughout the U.S. present theirprojects to a panel o businessleaders during the SIFE regionaland national competitions. Te2011 UNH Manchester’s SIFEteam was the USA RegionalChampions, and in 2010 the teambrought home the Rookie o theYear award.

The SIFE team at the pink tie ball for breast cancer awareness.

Written by Anna Carrigan, UNH Manchester VISTA member

Plans or this year’s Warmth romthe Millyard (WFMY) projectare well underway. Warmth romthe Millyard, an award winninginitiative o the community leadership program, is a clothingdrive and educational collaborativebased out o UNH Manchester.Each year, we run a clothing driveon campus and in the community.In the last our years the projecthas collected and distributed over

24,000 items o warm clothing,

Our mission is to mobilize thecommunity in clothing drives andother projects to demonstrate ourcollective power to address theneeds o our neighbors throughcollaborative partnerships.

Te public is invited to join ourannual kick-o event on October27 at 6:30 p.m. Te kick o program includes presentations

about homelessness in NH and

honors the experience o thosewho are, or who have been,homeless.

New additions to the WFMYproject this year include:

• Te new community leadershipcurriculum. Tis year-longcollaborative initiative includesthe 21st Century AferSchool Programs at BeechStreet Elementary School,Somersworth Youth HousingAuthority Afer School Program(middle school), and the PASSProgram at the Manchester

School o echnology (high

school). Te goal to exposestudents, many who are

considered ‘at-risk’, to highereducation through collaborationwith college students on projects,meeting sta and aculty, andspending time at the UNHManchester. Volunteers arealways welcome.

• Te Warmth from the Millyardstudent club will launch thisyear and will engage students inprojects related to the WFMY

mission on and o campus andwill promote understandingo poverty, homelessness,community, and leadershipissues.

Please contact us i you areinterested in learning moreabout volunteering in any aspecto this project. Tere are many opportunities available or studentsand community members. Callor email Anna at 603-641-4360 or

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Samantha Allwood (’11, English) had amega short story published on the onlinection magazine site, One Forty Fiction. The140-character story was written as part o an assignment in adjunct instructor DanaBiscotti Myskowski’s Media Writing class.

Michael Cochran-Boucher (’11, biologicalsciences) had an article, “Eating For Two: A Studyo the Eects o Obesity upon the Health o

Pregnant Women and their Inants,” publishedin UNH’s Inquiry Journal. He is enrolled in aphysician’s assistant program in Las Vegas.

Emily Duane (‘08, business) accepteda position with KPMG, an internationalaccounting rm located in Boston, MA. Shepreviously worked or the NH Society o CPAs as an executive assistant and memberservices administrator.

Meghan Friolet (’10, business) accepted aposition with the Girl Scouts o the Greenand White Mountains as a developmentcoordinator in their Marketing and Eventsdepartment.

Cheryl Hunter (’05, humanities, ‘07G, liberal

studies) had a book published by LambertAcademic Publishers in February 2011, Myths

and Archetypes in “The Lord o the Rings” and

“Harry Potter”: Mythological Heroes and the

Hero and Journey Archetype.

Christopher Larochelle (’11, English), had anarticle published in the March 2011 issue o NH Magazine. The article, “Irish or a Day”, waspublished in the magazine’s UP ront section.

Ater graduating in 2004 with her bachelor’sdegree in psychology Amber (Duclos)

Violette (’04, psychology; ’07G, social work)worked in a psychiatric inpatient unit orapproximately one year. She had knownsince achieving her bachelor’s degree thatshe wanted to be a psychotherapist. Amberloved the work she was doing and knew thatshe would need to urther her educationto advance in the eld. Amber had such awonderul and supportive experience atUNH Manchester that she was determined toattend UNH again to urther her degree.

In 2005 Amber was accepted into the master’sin social work program at UNH in Durham

which she attended ull time. While working

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Alumni SpotlightWritten by Natalie Glisson, 2011 graduate of the English and humanities programs

Leaving UNH Manchesterwas, or Karen Handley, anexciting and yet sad experience.Handley is a 2010 graduate o thebiological sciences and computer

inormation systems programsand is now successully working atPzer in Massachusetts.

Working with the Drug eamClinical and Scientic Services,Handley is being trained asan inormation scientist. Sheprovides services to drug researchand development groups.

When asked how UNH

Student SURF Fellowships This summer, two UNH Manchesterstudents spent their time conductingresearch as part o the 2011 SummerUndergraduate Research Fellowship(SURF) Program. Lowell Mower andMatthew Vartanian, both graduates o Merrimack High School, were awardedgrant unding to pursue their researchinterests.

Lowell Mower, astudent in the historyprogram at UNHManchester, spentmuch o his summerat the AmericanAntiquarian Societyin Worcester,Massachusettsexploring his topic,“Seeds o Revolution:

The French andIndian War, 1754-1763”. His acultymentor on theproject was John

Resch, proessor o history. Mower willpresent his ndings at a public lectureat UNH Manchester on Wednesday,November 16, 2011 at noon in thethird oor auditorium. The event is reeand open to the public.

Matthew Vartanian, a student inthe computer inormation systemsprogram, used his technical skills tohelp the YWCA o New Hampshire thissummer. His research topic was “OpenSource Development: DONATE Systemor YWCA” and his aculty mentor wasMihaela Sabin, associate proessor o computer inormation systems.

Manchester helped prepare heror her current job, Handley enthusiastically listed many reasons. Learning how to usedatabases and obtaining her

scientic background in biology,chemistry, and genetics were only some o the ways Handley saidthat her college education aidedher.

Handley gives much credit toher proessors. She said, “I oweall my teachers – the aculty atUNH Manchester who pushedme intellectually, taught me howto learn, and encouraged mewith opportunities on and o

campus.” She also enjoyed thecollege community and became very involved as a student. Shesaid, “Faculty, sta and studentscome to UNH Manchester romdown the street, rom towns acrossNH and rom around the world,and then orm a lasting bondthat is truly unique.” Handley may have moved on rom UNHManchester, but she still keepslasting memories o her academic

career in sight.

Karen Handley conducting researchin Professor Lorraine Doucet’saquatic microbiology course

Lowell Mower, a SURF scholar andsenior in the history program

on her degree she was required to completetwo separate one year long internships. Forher second year internship Amber was placedat The Anna Philbrook Center which is thechildren’s unit at New Hampshire Hospital.She took the internship to challenge hersel as she thought that working with childrenin such a setting would be too difcult orher emotionally. Amber’s experience turnedout to prove exactly the opposite. She loved

working with children and their amilies.

Ater graduating in 2007 with her master’sdegree in social work she excitedly accepted aposition as a child and amily therapist at theMental Health Center o Greater Manchester.Amber has been working in this position goingon our years and could not be happier.

Ater two years o clinical supervision Amberrecently obtained her license, which makesher a licensed independent clinical socialworker or LICSW. UNH Manchester and UNHDurham provided Amber with a wonderulacademic oundation, and the neededsupport to achieve her career goals. Amberhighly recommends both UNH Manchester

and UNH to others any opportunity she has.



co-authored with Cathy Overson (whoearned her UNH degree at Manchester, andis currently working on her dissertationin psychology at UNH Durham), “SkillDevelopment or Oral Presentations andExaminations,” a chapter that will appear inthe edited book, Your Graduate Training inPsychology: Suggestions or Success.

Patricia Halpin,lecturer o biological sciences,was inormedin July that herproposal, “GettingFourth-GradersExcited about theCardiovascularSystem,” hadbeen selected asa recipient o the2011 American Society or Biochemistryand Molecular Biology STEM Outreach SeedGrant. The amount o the award is $2,000.

Halpin also attended the ExperimentalBiology meeting in Washington DC inApril 2011 and presented a poster titled

“4th Graders Write their First Lab Report.”It was part o the PhUn Week (PhysiologyUnderstanding) poster session or theAmerican Physiological Society.

Jack Hoza, associate proessor and directoro sign language interpretation, presentedan all-day workshop in March 2011 inAnnandale, VA, or Virginia Departmento Education Sign Language InterpretingServices. The title o the workshop was “TeamInterpreting and the Post-session: Talkingabout the Work.”

Jennier Jeferson joined UNH Manchesterin June 2011 as the director o the Center orAcademic Enrichment. She previously worked

at Endicott College in Beverly, MA where shedirected the Writing Center. She holds anM.A. in English (Composition and Rhetoric)rom Northeastern University and a B.A. inEnglish rom Hamilton College. Jeerson livesin Stoneham, MA. For several years, Jeersonworked in the publishing industry, where sheedited college-level economics textbooksor Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education. Shecontinues to edit books and proessionalarticles on a reelance basis. Her most recentprojects have been or the Paris-basedOrganisation or Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD).

Michele Johnston joined UNH Manchesterin May 2011 as the college’s campus web

coordinator. She moved to Concord, NH romPittsburgh, PA where she was the Director o New Media or Trib Total Media, a group o newspapers and magazines in the Pittsburgharea. Johnston holds a B.S. EnvironmentalScience rom St. John’s University in Queens, NY.

Michael Jonas, assistant proessor incomputer inormation systems, was selectedto participate in UNH’s Research andEngagement Academy.

Jillian Landry joined the UNH GraduateSchool Manchester Campus in April 2011 asan administrative assistant.

Theresa Lynch, adjunct proessor o history,

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Jodi Abad, associate director o nancial aid,and Sharon Eaton, nancial aid counselor,presented at the Manchester public libraryin January 2011. They presented a sessionentitled, “Financial Aid Overview”.

Deborah Brown, proessor o English,recently published two books, Walking theDog’s Shadow (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets o

America) and Last Voyage: Selected Poems o

Giovanni Pascoli .

Karlea Brunelle-Joiner, director o theFirst Year Experience program; Patrice

Mettauer, senior lecturer and coordinatoro community outreach scholarship; Marisa

Forti, academic counselor; Chris Hegg,graduate assistant to the First Year Programofce; and student Kourtney Auger

presented a workshop or Campus Compacto NH on “Successul First Year Programs.”

Karlea Brunelle-Joiner was recognized asa nominee or the Outstanding First-YearStudent Advocate Award at the annualconerence on the First Year Experience inAtlanta, GA in February 2011.

John Cerullo, proessor o history, releasedhis newest book in January 2011. The book is entitled Minotaur: French Military Justice

and the Aernoult-Rousset Afair , publishedby Northern Illinois University Press. It isdescribed by the publisher as “a dramaticstory about military justice with implicationsor today.”

Michael Chandler,assistant directoro the centeror academicenrichment, wasawarded the 2011UNH Manchestersta excellence

award or his manycontributions to thecollege community.

Michelle Crummey joined UNHManchester’s Business Ofce in May 2011 asa business services assistant.

Carolyn Gamtso,associate proessorand library specialist,gave a lectureentitled “Educationin Exile: Teaching ina Tibetan ReugeeCommunity inthe Himalayas” atthe Bristol (NH)Old Town Hall(sponsored by theMinot Sleeper Library) in July and at theHampstead (NH) Public Library in August.Proessor Gamtso described her sabbaticalexperiences as an English languageinstructor in Dharamsala, India, home o theDalai Lama and thousands o exiled Tibetans.Both presentations were organized by theUNH Speakers’ Bureau.

Gary Goldstein, associate proessor o psychology, has co-authored with VictorBenassi, “Course Design,” a chapter thatwill appear in the edited book, Preparing

Graduate Students to Teach. He has also

attended the 35th Annual Social ScienceHistory Association meeting in Chicago, IL inNovember 2010 where she presented a paperentitled “Nixon, Rocky, Attica and the Media.”She also delivered a writing workshop at theAttica Correctional Facility in New York inMarch 2011.

Robert Macieski, associate proessor o history, was a guest panelist ollowing aMarch 2011 screening o the PBS AmericanExperience documentary lm, Freedom Riders.

The lm screening was oered in partnershipbetween New Hampshire Public Televisionand the history, communication arts, andpolitics and society programs at UNHManchester.

Annette Marinkov joined UNH Manchesterin June 2011 as an academic student servicesassistant in the Registration ofce. Marinkov,who is originally rom the Manchester area,moved back to New Hampshire ater living inMaryland or three years where she worked inadministration or CACI.

Melinda Negrón-Gonzales, lecturer in thepolitics and society program, presented

a session entitled “WikiLeaks: The WorldReacts” at a luncheon coordinated by theWorld Aairs Council o New Hampshire inspring 2011. She also presented a workshopon Turkish history and politics or middleand high school teachers. The event wassponsored by the World Aairs Council o New Hampshire and the Turkish CulturalFoundation.

Jack Resch,proessor o history,chaired a sessionat the annualconerence o theSociety o Historianso the Early

Republic in July, inPhiladelphia, PA. Thesession is entitled“States o Disability:Invalid Pensioners,Citizenship, andPublic PolicyFormation Beore and Ater Independence”.Resch has also been selected to join theAmerican History review panel or theFulbright program as part o the Council orInternational Exchange o Scholars.

Resch also was a commentator on a panel atthe Spring Conerence o the New EnglandHistorical Association in April 2011 atWorcester State College. The title o panel was

“Early New England War and Society”.

Mihaela Sabin, associate proessor andcoordinator o the computer inormationsystems program, acilitated a session withSusan Miertschin rom the University o Houston at the 42nd ACM Computer ScienceEducation Symposium in Dallas, TX in spring2011. The session was entitled, “A NeglectedPipeline? How Faculty Teach, Advise, andMentor Transer Students.”

Jamie Saucier, student activities coordinator,was awarded the UNH Manchester CCNH GoodSteward Award or the many contributions he’smade to the greater Manchester communitythrough student activities.



Sign Language Interpretation ProgramFor 33 years, UNH Manchester’ssign language interpretation (SLI)program has been committedto the development o qualiedinterpreters. “We have studentsrom the Merrimack Valley and

students who move here romother states to enroll,” explainedJack Hoza, associate proessor andprogram director. Te programwas the rst in the U.S. to beaccredited by the Commission onCollegiate Interpreter Educationand is one o only eight programsin the country that hold thisaccreditation.

Te program is part o theresponse to the signicant neednationwide or certied signlanguage interpreters. Accordingto Northeast Dea and Hard o Hearing Services in Concord, NH,hearing loss aects 10% o thepopulation nationwide. Withoutthe ability to hear, obtaining

inormation via the media oreven conversation is severely limited. Certied interpreters helpby bridging the communicationgap through American SignLanguage (ASL), a skill thatrequires bilingual and biculturalcompetence.

Desiree Weems, SLI, ’11, chose theUNH Manchester SLI programbecause it was one o the ewaccredited programs in the regionand the tuition was one quarterthat o the closest alternative.Weems, a Franklin High Schoolgraduate, does not regret decisionto stay local and values that “the

class sizes are small and theproessors are some o the best inthe eld.”

Graduates pursue careers in ASL/English interpretation, Dea education, rehabilitation, healthcare, audiology, social work,

counseling and the media. Asor Weems, she plans to take theinterpreter certication examand work toward a career as amedical or legal interpreter. Sheeels prepared or her uture,

thanks to the excellent proessorsand networking opportunitiesthey’ve provided. She says, “I wasgiven an amazing opportunity,to learn a language and cultureamong people who truly wantedto teach me.”

EXCELL and ESOL Program Celebrations

A total o 32 students completed ESOL programs at UNHManchester this summer.

Fourteen middle school students participated in theEducational Excellence or English Language Learners(EXCELL) summer program led by Linda Chick and assistedby tutors Beau Watschke and Lesley Brochu-Scott. Teocus o the program was on science literacy and includedlaboratory exercises guided by Dr. Patricia Halpin, instructorin the biology program and eld trips to the SEE ScienceCenter in Manchester and the Seacoast Science Center atOdiorne Point. Te 2011 EXCELL program was possible withthe support o the Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation, theUNH Provost’s Oce, and the ELL Co-op Program.

Eighteen high school and adult students participated inthe summer English or Speakers o Other Languages(ESOL) program. Michael Pugh, assisted by tutors NicoleChartier and Maria Maglio, instructed the class in reading,writing, and speaking English and took them on eld tripsto Canterbury Shaker Village, the Manchester MillyardMuseum, and the Currier Museum or Art. ManchesterMayor ed Gatsas recognized the students’ accomplishmentsat graduation, which was recorded by MPV and shown onChannel 16 in Manchester. Interim Dean Ward congratulates graduating EXCELL s tudents.

Interim Dean Sally Ward; Dr. Trinidad Tellez, Director, MinorityHealth at the NH Department of HHS; and Mayor Ted Gatsas

congratulate graduating ESOL students.



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Voices o the (603)UNH Manchester’s a cappella group, Milling Around, will host acappella singing groups rom across New Hampshire on October14. Voices of the (603) is a series o daytime workshops ormiddle and high school a cappella groups ollowed by an eveningperormance and riendly competition that will showcase thetalents o college, middle, and high school a cappella groups.Grant unding rom Campus Compact o NH will help underwritetravel expenses or participating high schools. Te 2010 championwas Chamber Choir rom Manchester West High School whocompeted with Berlin High School, Prospect Mountain HighSchool, and Winnacunnet High School.

Daytime workshops will be held

at UNH Manchester’s millyardcampus and include musicalarrangements, Beatboxing 101,and microphone use. Te 2011NH a capella championship willbe held at Te Currier Museumo Art beginning at 6:30 p.m. andis open to the public. Collegiatea cappella groups rom UNHManchester and Durham will alsoshare the stage.

icket sales will support music and the arts agencies rom across the

state. For inormation about the estival and ticket inormation, visitwww. voicesofhe603.com.

Tis year UNH Manchester willhost Food or Tought, a year-longseries about ood – where it comesrom; how it’s processed; and theimpact on our bodies and theenvironment. Food or Toughtis the topic o this year’s Saul OSidore Lecture series, coordinated

by the Marketing & Community Relations Oce. opics such asactory arming, ood awareness,arming o the uture, and therenewing o America’s oodtraditions o locally grown oodand the slow ood movement arepresented through lectures, lms,and discussions.

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