I. Roll – The following senators were absent: Baldwin, Connelly, Dubnick, Ferber, Kaen, Minocha, Shetty, Shore, and Simos. Guests were John Aber, Sonic Woytonik and Faye Richardson.
I. Roll – The following senators were absent: Dubnick, Harrist, Hartter, Laird, Mellyn, Minocha, Pohl, Scherr, Shore, Simos and Zang. Guests were John Aber, Doug Bencks and Faye Richardson.
The Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Engagement and Academic Outreach will be conducting an internal search for a UNH faculty member to fill the position of executive director for Engagement and Faculty Development. This is a full time appointment reporting directly to the Senior Vice Provost for Engagement and Academic Outreach. A position description with qualifications and expectations for the position are attached.
This internal search will follow a process similar to other successful internal searches recently conducted.
Ask professor Rachel Trubowitz why she decided to devote her life to 17th-century English literature and she’ll give you the answer people who’ve found their life’s calling generally do: “It just clicked.”
In September, I wrote to tell you about UNH Works for New Hampshire--our effort to ask state lawmakers to restore support for the University, which was cut 49 percent last year.
Micheal McConnell, associate professor of art and art history, died Oct. 27. Three of his abstract sculptures will be on view at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics when it is completed in 2013.
McConnell, who has served four stints as department chair, has been at UNH for 36 years.
The following obituary was published in Foster’s Daily Democrat:
University officials have agreed to reopen Memorial Field for its varsity teams and their opponents after additional testing showed no measurable levels of lead and blood tests for members of the field hockey team showed they do not have elevated lead levels. The field remains closed to everyone else, and the athletes must follow all safety guidelines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in order to use the field.
A new project from the on Disability (IOD) will address regional gaps in newborn screening for critical congenital heart disease (CCHD). The New England CCHD Newborn Screening Project is funded by a three-year, $900,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, and it is affiliated with the New England Genetics Collaborative.
