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Te college added a new degree to its rosterthis all a Bachelor o Arts in Englisheaching. Te program uses language,literature, and standards-based teaching as ameans or students to explore education. Itis designed or students who want to teachEnglish or Language Arts at the middle orhigh school grade levels.

Gail Fensom, program coordinator andassistant proessor o English, says one o themost unique aspects o the program is theemphasis on the new Common Core StateStandards. eachers in classrooms acrossthe nation right now are just learning howto integrate the standards into classroominstructions, says Fensom. Our studentswill be a step ahead.

Fensom is a member o the NH State

Education Departments team responsible orimplementing the standards in K-12 schools.

She is one o only a ew representatives o

higher education on any state team in the

nation. She also serves as a consultant or

the state and is working to assist NH school

districts with Common Core.

Fensom brings this unique perspective

into the classrooms or students in the newEnglish eaching program.

Students can also combine the English

eaching major with UNHs renowned Master

o Arts in eaching, taken in Manchester,

and in five years become state certified to

teach English and Language Arts. With the

5-year Masters option, students can apply12 undergraduate credits to the advanced

degreesaving both time and money.

More inormation about the English

eaching degree is available on UNH

Manchesters website, manchester.unh.edu.

English Teaching Degree Highlights Common Core Standards

o be competitive in the 21st centuryworkplace, high school students need strongcomputational skills and the ability toconnect and apply academic content to real-world challenges.

Tis all, the university was awarded a$750,000 five-year grant rom the NationalScience Foundation EPSCoR program todevelop a pilot project or students in thestates Career and echnical Education (CE)centers.

Te project, Te Ecosystem ComputingChallenge (ECC): Partnership Modelto Build Access to Relevant ComputingEducation or Underrepresented High SchoolStudents, will be led by Mihaela Sabin,associate proessor o computer science atUNH Manchester, in partnership with theUNH Cooperative Extension and the NewHampshire Department o Education.

Students in the ECC project will bechallenged to help monitor, map, and provide

understanding o New Hampshires naturalecosystems. Using data produced by the NHEPSCoR Ecosystems & Society project, theywill learn computational thinking and engagewith more rigorous computing by developing

their own mobile applications using App

UNH Receives $750,000 Award from National Science Foundation

IN THIS ISSUE

3New EngineeringTechnology Lab

4Ultimate Frisbee

6 Faculty/Staff News

7Class Notes

8 From Barracks toBlackboard

9 Exploring Public History

11 First Year Service Day

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Professor Mihaela Sabin with students in the computerinformation systems program at U NH Manchester.

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UNH Manchester Advisory BoardThe Board advises the Deans Office and the college

community concerning programs and community outreach.

They also help increase the colleges visibility in the community

and serve as a resource to student s, staff, and faculty.

Thomas Brennan

Manchester School District

Former Superintendent

Kevin Clougherty

NH Department of Revenue AdministrationFormer Commissioner

Jaye Gibson

Casinghino Law Offices

Administration

William Hill

BAE Systems

Program Manager III

David Li

Elliot Hospital

Senior Vice President

Joseph Lovejoy

Baker, Newman & Noyes

Principal, retired

Stephanie McLaughlin

Savoir-Faire Marketing & Communication

Principal

Lowell Mower (12, history)

SNHU

Academic Advisor

Bill Norton

Norton Asset Management

President

Ryan Pitts (12, business)

Oracle

Business Development Consultant

Heather Ramsey

Sojourn PartnersPartner

Nick Soggu

SilverTech Inc.

President and Founder

Virginia Theo-Steelman

Practicing Psychologist

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 &Communication Office at 603-641-4306

or at [email protected].

Writing, Photography, Editing & Designby

Kim Lamarre-Wall, Laura Piazza, and Brian Tobin

For more inormation about programsand activities visit manchester.unh.edu

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Mission Statement: Mill Workstells the UNH Manchester story. Mill Works spotlights the accomplishments of

UNH Manchesters students, faculty and staff; profiles academic programs; highlights alumni activities; reflectsour community relationships; and provides information on upcoming events and services available to people inthe region. Mill Worksis published three times per year (fall, spring and summer). It has a circulation of 23,200 andis published by the UNH Manchester Marketing and Community Relations Office.

Taking Home the Tech PrizeTe chance or astudent to attenda proessionalconerence is great,but leaving with thecoveted door prizeis awesome. Tis

was Matt McBridesexperience at thisyears NationalInstruments NIDaysNorth Americaconerence in Boston,MA in November.

McBride, an engineering technology student at UNH Manchester,was invited to the conerence by his proessor, Chris LeBlanc. Teywent to the conerence to learn more about Lab VIEW, a graphicalprogramming platorm that helps engineers scale rom design to testand rom small to large systems.

Lab VIEW is becoming an industry standard and I wanted to learnmore about it, said McBride. Its one o those things you want tolearn about and be able to use. Having Lab VIEW on your resume isa great strength. Lab VIEW is a powerul graphical programminginterace that allows or ast prototyping and programming.

McBride and LeBlanc also learned about a new device, the myRIO1900, which was unveiled at the conerence. And, as luck would haveit, McBride will be one o the first to use the device which he won atthe conerence. He is giving the digital logic board to the college toimplement into the new engineering lab.

Student access to Lab VIEW and RIO technology is critical or studentsinterested in careers in engineering. Tis was echoed by conerencekeynote speaker Dean Kamen who said everything that comes out ohis DEKA lab has some incarnation o the RIO technology.

LeBlanc, associate proessor o engineering technology, is excited tobe one o the first to integrate the new hardware into the classroom.Its great to have early access to the myRIO, said LeBlanc. Tisis going to allow me to do some early development or the controlsystems course offered this spring Te myRIO will also be greator students who are working on their capstone research projects.

Get the News in your InboxAre you interested in more requent news updatesrom UNH Manchester? We now offer a weeklyemail summary o all the news posted to ourcampus blog.

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Engineering student Matt McBride and Professor ChrisLeBlanc take home the door prize at the NIDays 2013.



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College Receives Funding for Engineering Technology Laboratory

Inventor, a ree and open sourceprogramming language andplatorm. Tey also will haveopportunities to meet and learnrom computing proessionalsabout computing careers and thethriving high technology sector inthe state.

Te ECC project will provideproessional development andcurriculum resources or 22

teachers at New HampshiresCareer and echnology Educationcenters, and will engage morethan 400 high school students,specifically those populationsunderrepresented in computingeducation. Te majority o thesestudents live in metropolitan areaswith the largest minority groupsand in rural communities with thehighest poverty level in the state.

Tis project will produce a

Tis all, the college received a$75,000 donation rom a privateoundation to build and equip anew engineering technology labin the Pandora mill located at 88Commercial Street in Manchester.

Te engineering technologylab, scheduled to open in thespring o 2014, will transormthe learning experience orstudents in UNH ManchestersElectrical Engineering echnologyand Mechanical Engineeringechnology programs. Tededicated projects lab will givestudents the opportunity tocollaborate with business partners,work on real projects, and solve

model or novel partnershipsbetween Cooperative Extension4-H, high school teachers at CEcenters, and proessionals romhigh technology companies, saidSabin. It is a model that can bereplicated and adapted nationwidethrough the Cooperative

Extension network.

Te ECC project is an excitingopportunity to have a lastingimpact on the education andcareer aspirations o studentsrom underserved populations,said Jan Nisbet, UNH SeniorVice Provost or Research andNH EPSCoR State Director.Te extensive data rom theNH EPSCoR Ecosystem &Society project on how naturalecosystems unction, and howpeople rely on ecosystems ortheir livelihood, will give studentsin this initiative the chance tocreate place-based and socially

industry challenges.

Chris LeBlanc, assistant proessor

o engineering technology, said

the new lab creates a unique

environment that will strengthen

the relationship between UNH,

students, and industry. It also

supports the University Systems

goal to double the number o SEM

educated graduates by 2025.

My vision is to have a space

where students can work on

mechanical and electrical

engineering capstone projects,

interact with industry, and leave

a lasting ootprint o student

research and development taking

relevant applications which

we believe will inspire them to

consider a career in science,

computing or engineering.

I am very impressed with the

work o Proessor Mihaela Sabin

and her university and community

partners. Te EcosystemsComputing Challenge will

strengthen these partnerships

while also significantly engaging

underrepresented students to

prepare them or a competitive,

global, high-tech workplace.

Tis highly innovative program

represents the very best o

who we are at UNH, said Julie

Williams, Senior Vice Provost

or Engagement and Academic

Outreach.

Te mission o NH EPSCoR

is to broaden and strengthen

New Hampshires research

capacity and competitiveness

through research, education and

economic development. For more

inormation: www.nhepscor.org.

For more inormation, contact

Evelyn Jones, Communications

Coordinator, NH EPSCoR.

place at the UNHManchestercampus, saysLeBlanc.

Te dedicatedprojects lab will

include a standardelectronicsworkstation,EDA/CADworkstations,mechanicalworkshopprototyping andabrication workshop, and acommon area or collaborationbetween students and industrysponsors.

Te Ecosystems Computing Challenge will strengthenthese partnerships while also significantly engaging

underrepresented students to prepare them for acompetitive, global, high-tech workplace.

Christopher LeBlanc, engineering

technology assistant professor



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So I decided to start one mysel.It was a great opportunity tointroduce less experienced playersto the sport while challenging the

more experienced players. Peopledefinitely had un!

Te tournament was also anopportunity to raise money or

a local organization. It means alot to me to help the Leukemiaand Lymphoma Society, saysBurkhardt. It was great to be parto a local tournament that we can

be proud o.

Phantastic Physiology VoyageFilm ContestFor the third consecutive year,

students rom UNH Manchestersbiological sciences programentered short films into the

American Physiological Societys(APS) Phantastic PhysiologyVoyage film contest in hopes

o winning cash prizes and aninvitation to attend a nationalconerence.

Te APS Phantastic PhysiologyVoyage: Function FollowsForm video contest encourages

undergraduate and graduatestudents to creatively connect withphysiology and engages them with

the broader public through a shortvideo contest.

Te 2013 entries included theollowing:

What is ALS?Authored by biology students Jehona Latifi,

Zahra Essa, and Alexis Dagher

The Plague of the 21st Century: HIV and

the Human Immune SystemAuthored by biology students Scott Walker andStephen Gibson

VisionAuthored by biology student Stephanie McQuaid

GoosebumpsAuthored by biology students Derek Burkhardt,

Joshua Linnane, and Marc Stanieich

wo awards will be presented atthe annual Experimental Biologymeeting. Te first award, a $750prize, will be presented to the firstplace video chosen by the CareerOpportunities in PhysiologyCommittee. A second award,consisting o a $250 viewers

choice prize will be given to thean avorite.

Te viewers choice avorite will bedetermined rom rankings directlyrom the Youube site. Cast yourvote by viewing the videos on ourwebsite, manchester.unh.edu/biology.

New Entrepreneurship MinorTe business program launched

a new minor in entrepreneurshipthis all. Kelly Kilcrease, associateproessor and coordinator o thebusiness program, said the minoris a great fit or students interestedin starting their own business orto enhance a business that they arecurrently working in.

Te course content o the minoris designed to meet the objectiveo developing the mindset, skills,competencies and experiential

learning that enable students tounction as entrepreneurs or asproductive members o emerging,entrepreneurial firms, saidKilcrease.

Te courses that comprise theminor include Introduction toEntrepreneurship, Leadershipor Management, Sales and SalesManagement, Business Law, andNew Venture Creation.

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Students get aRare OpportunitySeven biology students had aunique opportunity to attend aproessional conerence this springwith Patricia Halpin, assistantproessor o biology.

Experimental Biology is the larg-

est scientific conerence in theworld with an average o 11,000attendees. Te students checkedout research posters, spoke withscientific instrumentation ven-dors, and attended the AmericanPhysiological Society undergradu-ate poster and video session.

Student Leads UltimateFrisbee Charity TournamentMore than sixty people met atManchesters Rock Rimmon Fieldsthis summer to toss a disk, havesome un, and raise money or theLeukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Tey gathered or the UltimateFrisbee Charity ournament, anevent which raised $1,090 or thenonprofit organization. Te eventwas coordinated by a student ledUltimate Frisbee club.

Derek Burkhardt, biology student,coordinated the tournament orwhat he conesses were mainlypersonal reasons at first. Idalways wanted to play in a localtournament, says Burkhardt,

From left to right: Heather Smith, Donovan Pal 13, StephenGibson 13, Professor Patricia Halpin, Menchu Laflamme 13,

Norah Katile 13, Kellie Howard 12 and Molly Miller13.



STEM Discovery Lab Inspires the Next GenerationAcross the nation there is agrowing concern over the lacko graduates who are skilled inscience, technology, engineeringand mathematics (SEM).According to the US Department

o Education, only 16 percent oAmerican high school seniors are

proficient in these disciplines andinterested in SEM careers.

UNH Manchester responded to theconcern with the introduction o theUNH SEM Discovery Lab whichopened in October in the historicPandora mill. Te lab is part o thelarger University System initiativeto double the number o SEMgraduates by 2025.

Te SEM Discovery Lab offereda six-week pilot program ornearly 100 students in grades4-12 rom the Granite UnitedWays Bring It program, Mill FallsCharter School, and Beech Streetelementary school.

While Granite United Waycontinues to make majorinvestments to improve literacyor thousands o students

throughout New Hampshire, werecognize that it isnt enough toknow just how to read and write,says Patrick ufs, president oGranite United Way. o makeour children competitive incollege and careers, they have tobe literate in the critical areas oscience, math and technology.

Nick Soggu, Founder and CEO oSilverech couldnt agree more.As an area employer o engineersand developers, he understandsfirsthand the need to invest in thenext generation.

SEM efforts must encompassstudents o all age groups,especially those in their ormativelearning years, says Soggu, whois also a member o the Labssteering committee. My career asan engineer and entrepreneur oa digital marketing agency would

never have evolved i it wasnt

or a local college that granted

me access to a physics lab and a

robot to tinker with when I wasin sixth grade. Te UNH SEM

Discovery Lab is making that

happen or a new generation, and

will encourage uture engineers,

scientists and business leaders to

move our community orward.

Courses in the pilot programranged rom NASA based

research and engineering to

mathematics o texting and mobile

app development. wo 16-weekcourses are being offered or high

school students eager or a more

in-depth experience. Engineering

in Action began in November, and

echnology Start-up Boot Camp

starts in January.

Te Engineering in Action course,

taught by Soggu, invites studentsto spend a year with Eddie, a

new type o robot rom Parallax

Inc. designed to oster creativity,

innovation, and experimentation.

Trough our, six-week modules,

students in grades 10-12 will learn

the engineering process behind

creating Eddie.

Te echnology Startup Boot

Camp is offered to students in

grades 11-12. Te course, taughtby om K Kuegler, co-ounder

and general partner o Wasabi

Ventures, is open to students with

a passion to learn the undamental

skills needed to create a successul

technology startup business.

Te culmination o the class isa Demo Day where the New

Hampshire start-up community

will be invited to hear the students

present their business ideas and

plans. Te goal is or the students

to leave with a kernel o a start-up, says Kuegler.

Students in the pilot program will

be included in a study to measure

the long-term impacts o the

program. We care about studentenjoyment, creativity, and long-

term commitment to the SEM

fields, says Dr. Lauren Provost.

Successul SEM education is

important to us not only during

our course offerings, but or ourstudents over time.

Funders or the lab includethe UNH Alumni Association

Board o Directors; Jaye Gibson,

administrator with Casinghino

Law Office; Bill Norton, president

o Norton Asset Management; Ali

Rafieymehr; Nick Soggu, CEO and

ounder o Silverech; Virigina

and David Steelman; Patrick ufs,

president o Granite United Way;

and the Norwin S. and ElizabethN. Bean Foundation.

Anyone interested in more

inormation may contact Sarah

Jacobs, [email protected], or

visit manchester.unh.edu/stemlab.


Eric Beikman, an engineer with DEKA and a 2013 graduate of the computer information systemsprogram at UNH Manchester, working with students in the Mobile App Development course.


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Michael Contarino, associate professor ofpolitics, and Melinda Negron-Gonzales,assistant professor and program coordinatorof the politics & society program, had a co-authored article accepted for publication inthe journal Global Governance.

Marisa Forti,

academic counselor,was presented withthe colleges StaffExcellence award inJune. Forti joined

the college in 2009and serves as anacademic counselorin the AcademicCounseling Officeand coordinatorof both theCollege Transition Program and StudyAway programs. Forti was recognized forher outstanding service to students andcommitment to the college community.

Carolyn Gamtso, associate professor/reference & instruction librarian, RachelBlair Vogt, information literacy specialist,Nicole Chartier, writing tutor, Gail Fensom,assistant professor of English, Natalie

Glisson, writing tutor,Jennifer Jefferson,former director of the Center for AcademicEnrichment, and Dorothy Sherman,instructor of English have published an articlein the latest issue of the journal Writing LabNewsletter. Their article Research Mentoring:Expanding the Role of Writing Tutorsdescribes the UNH Manchester ResearchMentor Program, a Library/CAE collaborationthat trains writing tutors in library skills so asto expand the assistance they can provide tostudents.

Melissa Gould, staff member in theengineering technology and computingtechnology program, has authored her firstbook titled Deadly Intruder. The book is

authored under her pen name, Anne Kelsey.Gould will host a book signing in the UNHManchester Library on Wednesday, December4 at 4:00 p.m.

Joy Breeden,academiccounselor, leada personalityidentificationactivity called TrueColors at the annualNew HampshireNational HonorSociety conferencein November. Atthe conference,Breeden also presented a session titled Lost

at Sea; biology major Derek Burkhardtpresented a session on student leadership;Paul Bencal, director of the Emerging

Technology Center (ETC), introducedthe students to the ETC and applicationdevelopment; and Barbara Wirth, internshipcoordinator, andJennifer Landon, careerconsultant, provided a session aboutinformational interviewing.

Deborah Brown,professor ofEnglish, wasinterviewed by NewHampshire PublicRadio regardingher poetry and

videotaped readingher poetry at theFrost Place inFranconia, NH. Shewas a visiting poetto SNHU where she taught a class and gavea poetry reading. Brown also participatedin three events related to Concord ReadsMaxine Kumin, including a discussion groupat Gibsons Bookstore and a workshop and areading at the Concord Public Library.

Karlea Brunelle-Joiner, First YearExperience coordinator, and Marisa Forti,academic counselor, co-presented withstudent Victoria DiPippo and alumnaeJessica Poznanski on How to Train and

Support your Student Leaders to IncreaseStudent Retention at the LearningAssistance Associate of New EnglandsAnnual Conference.

Patricia Halpin, assistant professor ofbiology, was an invited speaker at theAmerican Society for Biochemistry andMolecular Biology HOPES Workshop;Fostering Partnerships between Colleges,Universities and K-12 Schools. The talk wastitled Performing and Experiment on theCardiovascular System with 4th Graders.She also presented a poster at the AmericanPhysiological Society PhUn (PhysiologyUnderstanding) Week poster session. Herposter was titled Assessment of 4th GradePhUn Week Experiment on the Cardiovascular

System.

Ginger Hobbs Lever, director of communityrelations and events, was appointed tothe NH State Advisory Council for the USCommission for Civil Rights in September.

Jack Hoza,associate professorand director ofsign languageinterpretation,presented a one-day workshop onteam interpretingfor the SignLanguage StudiesProgram atMadonna Universityin Livonia,Michigan. The workshop was based onresearch Professor Hoza has conducted onhow teams of interpreters accomplish their

work together and was based in part on hisbook Team Interpreting as Collaboration andInterdependence (2010, RID Press).

Michael Jonas, assistant professor ofthe computing technology program andengineering technology program, andMihaela Sabin, associate professor andcoordinator of the computing technologyprogram, presented at the SIGITE (SpecialInterest Group for Information TechnologyEducation) conference in Orlando, FL inOctober. Sabin presented a paper entitled,QuizPower: A Mobile App with App Inventorand XAMPP Service Integration, co-authoredwith computer information systems studentDavid Meehan. Jonas presented a poster

entitled Group Note Taking in MediaWiki, aCollaborative Approach.

Kelly Kilcrease, associate professor andcoordinator of the business program, hadan article accepted for publication in theSMU Mustang Journal of Management and

Marketing November 2013 issue.

Regina McCarthy, assistant dean ofacademic student services, is serving asecond two-year term as President ofLearning Assistance Association of NewEngland (LAANE). LAANE celebrated its30th anniversary at their fall conference inGreenfield Community College in Greenfield,Massachusetts.

Faculty&S

taffNews

Welcoming Advisory Board Members

The Deans Office announced the appointment of Heather Ramsey and VirginiaTheo-Steelman to the colleges Advisory Board.

Ramsey, a partner with Sojourn Partners, is a CertifiedProfessional Coach through the International Coach Federation(ICF). Throughout her career, Ramsey has cultivated andworked with professionals in the U.S., Egypt, Switzerland,the U.K., Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Germany andAustralia. Some of her consulting and coaching clients haveincluded Nike, Embassy of Denmark in Cairo, Microsoft aswell as nonprofits, law firms, international manufacturing,healthcare, software, retail and small businesses.

Theo-Steelman is a practicing psychologist and a life-longresident of Manchester. Devoted to higher education, she alsoserves as a board member on UNH Alumni Association. Dr.

Theo-Steelman is a double alumna of UNH and has served theUNH Community in several capacities. She was a Trustee of theUniversity System of New Hampshire and she has been on theDeans Leadership Council of the UNH College of Health andHuman Services. She has also been a Trustee of the ManchesterCity Library and of Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum.


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Mike Avitabile (04,communication arts)published a noveltitledA Rum Truck

now available onKindle. The narrativeexplores the live-for-today mentality of theyoung and aimlesswhile embracing thebinds of friendship andadulthood. Avitabilelives in Santa Monica,CA and is the Director of Content Operationswith Sony Network Entertainment.

Emily Duane(08, business) is a VisualMerchandiser with Macys in Natick, MA.After completing her bachelors degree atUNH Manchester, she pursued a degreein Fashion Merchandising Managementwith the Fashion Institute of Technologywhere she graduated with honors and isa member of the Phi Theta Kappa HonorSociety.

Amanda Leigh Fratturelli (07, computerinformation systems) is currently working asa Senior Software Quality Assurance EngineerIII at Symbotic, a robotics/warehouseautomation solutions start-up company,

in Wilmington, MA (formerly known as

CasePick Systems). Fratturelli started with the

company in May 2011 is living in Merrimac,

MA.

Jasmine Harris (08, communication arts) is

working at Easter Seals as a Information and

Referral Specialist. Harris recently launched

a new apparel company using the resources

of the Small Business Development Center

located at UNH Manchester.

Angela Marsh (08, English & communication

arts) works for Atlas Media Corp where she

started in 2010 as a Production Assistant and

is now working as an Associate Producer for

shows such as National Geographics Howto Survive the End of the World and Hotel

Impossible for the Travel Channel.

Kevin Mason (13, politics and society,

communication arts) is the Assistant Editor

of the bookAn Institutional Approach to the

Responsibility to Protect, edited by Gentian

Zyberi, a Professor at the Oslo Institute of

Human Rights in Norway.

Rebecca Mason (12, biological sciences) had

an article published in the spring issue of the

UNH Inquiry Journal. The article is entitled

Juggling Research and Work between Two

C l a s s N o t e s

Campuses: An Undergraduates Experience inCellular Research and the Real World.

Emilea Raymond (10, communication arts)joined the UNH Manchester staff this fall asan administrative assistant for the Centerfor Academic Enrichment. As a student,Raymond was a writing tutor in the CAEand achieved master level tutor certificationthrough the College Reading and LearningAssociation.

scholarship, and service. This is the onlyuniversity-wide award given each year tothe faculty member whose overall record ofexcellent teaching, caring about students,devotion to the university community, andsubstantial record of scholarly achievementexemplifies a distinguished career.

Resch has been a faculty member at theUniversity of New Hampshire for 40 years.

This summer he received the PresidentsAward from the World Affairs Council ofNew Hampshire for his contributions tothe success of WACNHs in the past year asa member of their board of directors. He isalso the recipient of two Fulbright awardsand several fellowships from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities.

Keith Shields, adjunct professor andexecutive producer of New HampshirePublic Radios The Exchange, was awardedthe 2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awardin the News Documentary category forhis one-hour radio documentary aboutimmigration in New Hampshire. Theprogram was the culmination of Shields

year-long editorial initiative that exploredimmigration in New Hampshire from avariety of different perspectives, fromlegal and legislative issues to real-worldexperience from a refugee family adjustingto their new life in the U.S.

Shields has been teaching audio soundengineering and radio production coursesin the communication arts program at UNHManchester campus since 2006.

Barbara Wirth, internship coordinator,

Melinda Negrn-

Gonzales, assistant

professor and

program coordinator

of the politics &

society program, was

an invited speaker

at Gender of the

State & Politics in

the Middle Eastconference at

Northeastern University in Boston this fall.

She presented a paper entitled, Womens

Activism during the AKP Era in Turkey. This

spring Negrn-Gonzales was named the

2013 recipient of the Faculty Excellence

Award for UNH Manchester.

Jack Resch, professor of history and

coordinator the humanities program, was

named the recipient of the Universitys

Distinguished Professor Award in April.

The award honors long-standing members

of the UNH faculty who have distinguished

themselves in the areas of teaching,

was awarded theAchievementAward this fall at

the New HampshireBusiness EducationAssociations 89thAnnual Conference.

As the associationswinner, Barbara willbe recognized at

the Excellence inEducation Awards(EDies) in June. Wirth was also nominated

to serve as the president-elect for the firstchapter of the NH Career DevelopmentAssociation, an international professional

association for career professionals.

Andrew Laurie

Stangel, adjunct

professor of arthistory, has publishedan article in the

November 2013issue of the journal ofAmerican Numismatic

Association, The

Numismatist. TitledMedaling in Politics:the Artful Satire of

Karl Goetz and illuminating aspects ofGerman history from World War I throughWorld War II, it is illustrated with medals

in the historical collections given byStangel to his alma mater, the University ofWisconsin at Madison. Additionally, Stangel

was named the 2013 recipient of theAdjunct Faculty Excellence Award for UNHManchester.

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Emilea Raymond (left) and tutor Christine Andrews (right)work with students in the Center for Academic Enrichment.



Guiding Student Veterans from Barracks to BlackboardTere is a certain camaraderieamong veterans. Tey knowwhat its like to go ar away, to berightened to the core, to havetheir limits tested, and to findcourage they didnt know they had.Tey also know the challenges

o coming home, different andchanged, and having to start over.

For some veterans, going college ispart o that new lie.

A veterans experience in schoolcould eel lonely or isolated orsome, says James Mazzuchelli,who teaches a pilot programdesigned or veterans called FromBarracks to Blackboard at UNHManchester.

By the time a veteran entersschool, many o his or her peersare already done with the collegeexperience and thus it may behard to connect with others. Inaddition, many veterans are non-traditional beyond their veteranstatus, as they may be workingmultiple jobs and have amily andchildren responsibilities, to name aew examples.

All new students, primarily recenthigh school graduates, take a firstyear seminar--a one-credit classdesigned to help students integratesocially and academically--as part othe First Year Experience program.But this year officials have launched

a pilot seminar designed specificallyor veterans with the goal o helpingthem not only integrate, but makethe transition rom military tocivilian lie.

Te seminar provides a stageto talk about this real lie non-traditional responsibilities andhow they inter-relate with aull college course-load, saysMazzuchlli, who is himsel aVeteran and a case manager with

the Veteran Affairs MedicalCenter in Manchester, NH.

Tis section o the transitionalseminar was created out o aresponse to a veteran surveythat showed students wanted a

seminar like this one, says FirstYear Experience Coordinator Dr.Karlea Brunelle-Joiner. So with thehelp o Assistant Dean o StudentServices Regina McCarthy, UNHManchester developed the section.

Tese courses are beginning topop-up across the country, butUNH Manchester is addressingthe need sooner rather than later,

largely based on the work oRegina with the student veterans,Brunelle-Joiner says.

In many ways, First Year Seminarwelcomes new students to theacademic lie and community by

preparing them or a liestyle, whichis very different rom what theypreviously knew, says Mazzuchelli.o that end, core themes oacademic skills, career developmentskills, and lie skills are incorporatedinto the learning experience.

Tose same core themes are alsoincorporated as a guide into theFrom Barracks to Blackboardseminar, however that may beone o the ew similarities,

Mazzuchelli says.

When a veteran starts schoolhe or she has already been in thereal world in a military setting ora number o years, Mazzuchelliexplains. Serving in the militaryoffers a very unique set oexperiences with very differentnorms, values, and expectationso most civilian work-orce orgeneral way o lie situations, hesays.

And though there are bigdifferences among the variousmilitary branches and jobunctions, once someone leavesthe military they can ofentimesrelate to other veterans and theculture they came rom, and

the values they bring orth,Mazzuchelli says.

Tis is why the course is taughtby a veteran, includes a PeerAssistance Leader who is also aveteran, and is only or veterans.Te eight-week-course is meantor veterans new to college orreturning to the classroom.

For Veterans, the class helps themtransition into a new or secondcareer and the academic culture aswell as connects them to campusresources. Te seminar willhelp veterans connect with oneanother and be provided an outletto talk about their transitionsinto the academic community,Mazzuchelli says.

I want these students to not onlysucceed and do well, but to alsoreflect and eel UNH Manchesteroffered a learning experience with

those very goals in mind.


Te seminar provides a stage to talk about thisreal life non-traditional responsibilities and howthey inter-relate with a full college course-load.



UNH Manchester was among 18New England college campusesselected or an EPA sub-grant thissummer. Northern New EnglandCampus Compact, a coalition onearly 60 college and universitypresidents across New Hampshire,Maine, and Vermont, awardedthe grants to develop academicprograms that will address someo the regions most pressingenvironmental issues.

Trough this two-year initiative,campuses will partner withcommunity organizations toembed sustainable environmentalprojects into a range o academiccourses. Students will learn about

environmental stewardship whileproviding immediate services suchas water quality monitoring aswell as studying ways to mitigateclimate change.

Preserving our natural resourceshas become a local as well as aglobal imperative, says DebbyScire, executive director oCampus Compact or NewHampshire, one o the threestate organizations spearheading

the effort. Equally important isensuring that students develop thecritical thinking skills necessaryor both public problem-solvingand employment in a competitive

market. Higher education plays a

vital role at this intersection, with

the ability to prepare students or

environmental stewardship and

employment.

UNH Manchester aculty have

designed course projects ocusedon water quality monitoring in a

partnership with the Manchester

Water Department. Tis spring,

biology majors studying Aquatic

Microbiology will learn to assess

and monitor the water quality o

Lake Massabesic, Manchesters

primary water source. Computer

Inormation Systems students

will develop mobile apps and

data management systems

or collecting and analyzing

environmental data. Students

in Communication Arts will

assist the Water Department in

educating the public about water

quality issues.

Students participating in

these projects are providing

an immediate benefit to their

communities, says Scire, but

the true beauty o this work is

that it ocuses on longtermsolutions, in terms o establishing

ongoing environmental evaluation

processes as well as developing

students knowledge and skills.

UNH Manchester grantauthors include Michael Jonas,assistant proessor o computingtechnology program andengineering technology program;Patrice Mettauer, senior lecturerand coordinator o communityoutreach scholarship; StephenPugh, associate proessor and

coordinator o the biologicalsciences program; and MihaelaSabin, associate proessor andcoordinator o the computingtechnology program.

UNH Manchester Receives EPA Sub-Grant for Environmental Education

Bill Boss, a senior in the biology program, testing water samples duringan internship at the Manchester Water Works treatment facility.

Exploring Public HistoryJessica Parr, adjunct history

proessor, enjoys finding waysto make history engaging orstudents and helping them to

understand why they should care.

Parr does this through the field o

public history, which she definesas the practical application o

history.

It is the practice o making

history accessible to the public,she explains. Its about getting

the public excited about history.

Public historians share an interest

in making history relevant intodays world. Te field o publichistory covers numerous job

categories, some o which include

museum curatorship, historic

preservation, archival science,documentary film and media

producer, and work in national

historic sites and parks.

Getting students excited aboutpublic history is what Parr

and the history department at

UNH Manchester are hoping

or with new, one-credit publichistory courses offered this all.

Te courses, Material Culture

and Introduction to Archives,

introduce students to topics

such as preservation, security,

photo preservation, as well as

proessional skills such as resume

development and networking or

museums or archives. Parr hopes

to offer additional courses this

spring.

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Speech Recognition and Big Data Research at Summer Speech AcademyA person calls out a name ordelivers instruction, maybe says akind word. A million tiny bits oinormation inflection, meaning,letters, everything come intothe ears, go through the brain,

get understood somehow andproduce a response, in ractionso a second. For computers,finding their voices can be morechallenging.

I find it interesting to try toemulate something that humansalready possess which is thecapability to listen, processand interpret speech, says EricBeikman, a 2013 graduate o

UNH Manchesters computerinormation systems program andan engineer at DEKA. While itseasy or us, its extremely difficultor a computer to do.

Led by Michael Jonas, assistantproessor in computing technology,Beikman along with several otherstudents have the opportunityto work in this cutting edge fieldthrough the Summer SpeechAcademy. As part o the program,

students worked on three projectsrelated to speech recognitiontechnology, all ocused on researchand discoveries that may move thefield orward.

Speech recognition has beenaround in one orm or anothersince the 1960s, Beikman says.But the problem is that it requiresa lot o mathematical computationwhich was not really available backthen. Its only becoming viable now.

And we think there is going to bean increased usage o this kind otechnology... I find it interesting.Its combining a bunch o differentfields and cutting edge research.

For the past three years, Jonas

has invited students rom UNHManchester and area communitycolleges to be involved in hisresearch.

Jonas, who joined UNHManchester in the all o 2010,previously worked as a seniordevelopment engineer at MicrosofCorporation and as a staff scientistat BBN echnologies, in bothcases doing research in speech

technology. Most recently, hewas a senior scientist at Kratylosechnologies working on mobiletelephony based speech enabledinternet search. Not surprisinglyat UNH Manchester his researchinterests ocus on ArtificialIntelligence, with an emphasis onAutomatic Speech Recognition.

Te Summer Speech Academyprogram consisted o threeconcurrent projects. Te first, a

UNH call-router, was conductedby Nick Sandberg, a computerengineering technology major atUNH Manchester.

Te second project is parallelcomputing. Here, computerinormation science studentommy McCarthy looked at betterways to build speech models.

Te parallel computing projectinvolves speech recognition which

includes a multitude o steps rommaking language models, acousticmodels, training, decoding, andscoring a set o spoken audio files.

My job is to figure out howwe can train over multiplenetworked machines, saysMcCarthy. Basically, Imcreating the ability or us to usedistributed processing. Distributedprocessing allows machines torun simultaneously and allows the

processing to get done aster andmore efficiently. Right now itsnot quite a 1:1 process a littleaster but we definitely needimprovement, especially as theamount o data were processing

increases in quality and length.McCarthy says that by doing theproject he hopes to learn a lotmore about Unix systems andnetworking machines to workmore efficiently, especially withthe large amount o data they areprocessing.

Big Datais currently the industrybuzzword, says McCarthy. Andthough the amount o data

we currently process pales incomparison, the concept is thesame, only the relative size isdifferent. Te goal is to see howar we can take the distributedprocessing...all the way rom ourcurrent 10 servers, and maybeeventually be able to do so over theinternet! I we can get maybe fivehours worth o speaking processedin five minutes, then weve donemore than we needed to!

Te third project is modelbuilding, Jonas said. Tis willserve a critical unction as twostudents are trying to get theexisting speech system whichis based on Carnegie MellonsSphinx recognition toolkit to successully build a set orobust models using 250 hourso recorded audio. MatthewHenninger, computer engineeringtechnology major, and Beikman

are working on this together.

Jonas has submitted a NationalScience Foundation grant orunding to expand this programand help uel student excitementabout computer science andcontinued education. I nothingelse, says Jonas, I love the ideathat this project has the potentialto offer an experience to UNHManchester students that cant beound at other colleges.

Michael Jonas, assistant professor in computing technology,launched the Summer Speech Academy in 2013.




On the bus to First Year ServiceBy Patrick Synan, English major

Positive action engenderspositive connections. Tat wascertainly the takeaway rom UNHManchesters First Year Service

(FYS) Day, the annual event where

first year and transer studentsoffer their skills, strength and time

to the city o Manchester. Tissummer, the week prior to classesstarting, fify-two students, acultyand staff weeded and harvested

the NH Food Bank garden onNorth River Road in Manchester.

Te day began with a breakast.

Students signed in, received-shirts and loaded up on bagels

and coffee. It was an atmosphereo general uncertainty; somestudents stood shyly in cornerswhile a ew made hesitantintroductions. A sprinkling o

conversations could be heardon the bus ride over, but the icewas truly broken on site when

everyone split into groups andbegan tackling a range o choresacross the garden under a hot sun.

Tere were groups who pulled

weeds rom allow plots, groupswho sorted tomatoes and cutstalks, groups who ran water and

two students who worked in awooden shed, cleaning shel spaceor tomatoes to sit and ripen. In no

time at all, everyone was talking

and laughing while capitalizing

on individual strengths and

inclinations in order to efficientlywin the harvest.

FYS Day participants ound

themselves making all sorts o

connections. Morine, a twenty-

eight year old biology student

originally rom Kenya, said

working in the garden reminded

her o community lie back home.

More amiliar with agricultural

work than some o the other first

year students, she was able tolook realistically at the size o her

efforts in the big scheme o things.

Perhaps it is something you guys

can plan more ofen, she says.

Tey really need a lot o work. o

this end, Students in Action (SIA),a service organization on campus,is organizing another trip to the

garden in the coming weeks.

Other students like Dan, aneighteen year old SEM scholar,would like to do a variety o thingsin the community. He says he looksorward to participating in utureevents put on by Students in Action,but he would not mind i theywere held inside. Fortunately orstudents like Dan, SIA has plansor a number o indoor serviceactivities as well. Afer all, the bestkind o service is that or whichthe provider eels best fit.

Not surprisingly, the bus ride backrom the garden was louder. Somestudents were amazed at how dirtythey had become. Others wereproud to have learned somethingnew. orie DiPippo, the Studentsin Action leader who organizedthis years event, says this was heravorite moment. A lot o these

people have reported that theyare eeling so much better aboutstarting the school year becausethey now know people, and Ithink thats awesome, she writes,praising FYS Day as an agent ormaking personal connections.

It goes to show that sharing a taskis just as important as sharing time.Everyone involved walks awaywith something new and valuable,whether in hand or in spirit.First year students connect while helping the community through service.

First year students connect while helping the community through service.

Raquel Gawron, senior in history, helping out at the First Year Service Day


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STEM Discovery Lab Receives $25K from Bean FoundationTis all, the college received a $25K grant rom the Norwin S. and Elizabeth N.Bean Foundation in support o the UNH SEM Discovery Lab.

Kathy Cook, Bean Foundation Grant Manager, sees the lab as a great resourceor students in Manchester. Our trustees are deeply committed to educationand see the SEM Discovery Lab as a cutting edge opportunity or students inManchester, said Cook. Te Bean Foundation wanted to support our studentshaving this kind o eye opening chance to see the world in a different way. Andthis also inspires educators, so its a win-win all around.

Te Manchester school district shares Cooks enthusiasm about the lab.

David Ryan, Manchester School District Assistant Superintendent, believes the lab will help expandopportunities or students in the district as many students do not have the means to learn withtechnology in their homes. UNH has given our students another way to connect with the 21stCentury and provide a spark or their own thinking and utures. We are very grateul, he said.

As one o our partners in developing the SEAM program at Manchester High School West, UNHManchester continues to be the community university many o our students look to as a gatewayto a brighter uture. Te SEM Discovery Lab is the latest example o their commitment to makingsure that gateway is wide open or all.

Te lab was created in partnership with the Manchester School District, Granite United Way, MillFalls Charter School, and other community organizations. Te goal is to create a challenging,hands-on learning community or K-12 students and their teachers to engage in the authenticintegration o science, technology, engineering and mathematics (SEM) and language artsthrough a research-based curriculum.

Find out more about the UNH SEM Discovery Lab online, including which courses are currentlybeing offered, by visiting manchester.unh.edu/stemlab.

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