The Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research has announced the first participants in UP-2-NIH, a new program designed to help faculty obtain National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants.  In addition to financial support, recipients will participate in a two-semester series of workshops and seminars designed to increase participants' understanding of, and familiarity with, the NIH as well as providing proposal writing and review experiences specific to NIH.

Located on a 95 acre island seven miles off the coast of New Hampshire, the Shoals Marine Laboratory is jointly operated by UNH and Cornell University. Every summer, UNH and Cornell students come to SML for two weeks to take Underwater Research, perhaps the only class to take place 30 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Produced by UNH Video Productions, this video shows what it's like: Shoals Marine Lab Underwater Research Class.

This summer, students at Oyster River Middle School in Durham got a close-up look at real-world research when their intern, Berkley Sadana, accompanied Diane Foster, UNH associate professor of mechanical engineering, on a trip to the Netherlands to study how waves cause beach erosion.

Earth Systems Research Center botanist Barry Rock officially retired in late May after 40 years of teaching and research, including 25 at UNH.  However, he will still serve as director of Forest Watch, which he founded 21 years ago.  Forest Watch is a unique program that engages primary and secondary school students in the hands-on collection and processing of field data relating to air pollution damage in forest stands.

Deborah Kinghorn, associate professor of theatre and dance, has received a prestigious Fulbright Award to teach and help launch a new post-doctoral program, "Acting, Media, and Culture," at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, during the 2012-13 academic year. A master teacher in Lessac Kinesensic Training, Kinghorn's work is based on that of pioneering teacher Arthur Lessac, who created the kinesensic approach to developing voice and body strength, power, and expressiveness.  Lessac was Kinghorn's mentor until his death in 2011.

Through years of study and close interaction with lobsters in their natural environment, Win Watson, professor of zoology in the UNH Department of Biological Sciences, has found that New England's iconic lobsters behave far differently than previously suspected.  Learn more about how he uses Lobster TV to reveal the behavior of these tasty crustaceans in this Research Profile: Win Watson – Considering the Lobster.

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate would like to direct scientists' attention to its new volunteer reviewer web form at http://science.nasa.gov/researchers/volunteer-review-panels/.

In addition to some Space Science programs, the Directorate currently is seeking reviewers specifically for the review of proposals to the Remote Sensing Water Quality (RSWQ) and Airborne Instrument Technology Transition (AITT) ROSES programs.

New research by Nelson Barber, associate professor of hospitality management at UNH's Whittemore School of Business and Economics, has found that environmentally-conscious consumers exhibit specific behavior patterns and characteristics when compared with consumers in general.  Hotels looking to attract these consumers must not only use sustainable business practices and be committed to sustainability as an environmental goal, but also need to effectively communicate those practices to these potential "green" hotel guests.

Local angel investors have funded the University of New Hampshire’s fifth spinoff company, Setem Technologies, which is using the research of mathematics professor Kevin Short to develop signal separation technology that addresses the “cocktail party problem” -- the ability to focus on a specific speech source and mitigate/eliminate any extraneous background noise or interference.