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.

ERMA^®, an interactive online mapping tool developed by UNH and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has been expanded to include the Arctic to help address numerous challenges posed by increasing ship traffic and proposed energy development.  NOAA and the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) called the Environmental Response Management Application, known as ERMA®, an important step forward for the Arctic region. 

Reviewers for the Fulbright Discipline Peer Review selection process, particularly within the fields of Law, Engineering, and the Life Sciences, currently are being recruited by the Institute of International Education/Council for International Exchange of Scholars (IIE/CIES).

Acting as a reviewer is an excellent way to learn what comprises a successful application while serving the community of international scholars.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites the engineering research community to submit suggestions for topic ideas to be considered for the FY 2014 Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Program Solicitation. The deadline for submission is September 14, 2012.

Suggestions for EFRI Topic Ideas are solicited and vetted every two years. Selected Topics become the foci of EFRI-supported research. Solicitations are announced annually for research proposals that fall under the specified topic areas.