“The ELL Writer, Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom” by Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, assistant professor of English, was released in April 2013. 

This resource for secondary school ELA and ELL teachers brings together compelling insights into student experiences, current research, and strategies for building an inclusive writing curriculum. The ELL Writer expands the current conversation on the literacy needs of adolescent English learners by focusing on their writing approaches, their texts, and their needs as student writers.

“Diversity in Diaspora: Hmong Americans in the Twenty-First Century” edited by Monica Chiu, UNH associate professor of English, Mark Edward Pfeifer, Kou Yang was recently released. 

This anthology wrestles with Hmong Americans’ inclusion into and contributions to Asian American studies, as well as to American history and culture and refugee, immigrant, and diasporic trajectories. It negotiates both Hmong American political and cultural citizenship, meticulously rewriting the established view of the Hmong as “new” Asian neighbors—an approach articulated, Hollywood style, in Clint Eastwood’s film “Gran Torino.” The collection boldly moves Hmong American studies away from its usual groove of refugee recapitulation that entrenches Hmong Americans points-of-origin and acculturation studies rather than propelling the field into other exciting academic avenues.

Ann Dillon, Institute on Disability staff member and coordinator of the New Hampshire Leadership Series, has been named to Gov. Maggie Hassan’s Commission on Disability. A registered and licensed occupational therapist, Dillon brings her expertise to the commission as a parent of a daughter who had disabilities and chronic health conditions and experienced many of the state’s educational and care systems.

Brendan Prusik, a UNH Cooperative Extension natural resources field specialist in Coos County, is one of the participants in the inaugural class of the Community Practitioners Network (CPN).

The network is funded by the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. CPN is a two-year leadership program offered at no charge to participants designed to build and strengthen leadership skills among community and economic development professionals from Coos County and surrounding communities in the United States and Canada.

Participants will engage in a mix of face-to-face and virtual meetings with the first year devoted to building participants' leadership skills and capacity, and the second year to strengthening social, professional and community networks across the region and implementation of participant-led community project(s). Participants were selected through a competitive application process.

The Neil and Louise Tillotson...

Meghan C. L. Howey, assistant professor of anthropology/archaeology recently published “Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).

From publisher's website: 

Rising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial mounds and impressive circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of the region’s ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have long been treated as isolated finds and have never been connected to the social dynamics of the time in which they were constructed, a period called Late Prehistory.

In “Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600” Howey uses archaeology to make this connection. She shows how indigenous communities of the northern Great Lakes used earthen structures as gathering places for ritual and social interaction, which maintained connected egalitarian societies in the process...

John Aber, University Professor and Provost, will receive the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale University Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. The Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal is Yale’s highest graduate alumni honor.

Professor Ben Harris's article on Arnold Gesell, published in the refereed journal, History of Psychology, has been selected "Best Article" in the 2011 volume by the journal's publisher, The Society for the History of Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association.

The winning article is entitled "Arnold Gesell's progressive vision: Child hygiene, socialism, and eugenics." The president of the Society, Andrew Winston, points out in his award letter that this award is the most important one given by the society. "It is a direct reflection of the value placed on your [Harris's] scholarship," Winston adds. 

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