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2008 URC Event Descriptions

See the URC calendar for the schedule of the events and for the contact person associated with each event in order to gain more information.


Graduate Research Conference

The Graduate Research Conference is devoted to celebrating the high quality research being conducted by graduate students at UNH and is designed to showcase research from graduate students in all disciplines. All UNH graduate students are encourage to participate. Participants interact with other graduate students and faculty from across campus. Attending the GRC affords the entire university community the opportunity to participate in the graduate education experience. For more information, visit http://gradschool.unh.edu/grc.


Senior B.A. & B.F.A. Exhibition and Preview Reception

This annual show celebrates the achievements of graduating art students from the UNH Department of Art and Art History.


Student Composers' Concert

The UNH Student Composers' Concert is an annual event that features the music of undergraduate and graduate students of the Music Department. The music is newly composed, and is almost exclusively performed by fellow music students.


History Department Undergraduate Presentations

The History Department hosts a panel of undergraduate history majors who present research projects from their academic classes, research seminars, and Honors theses.


Seacoast Reads Exhibition

The Seacoast Reads exhibition displays the work of UNH student volunteers who tutor young children in elementary schools and after-school programs in literacy. Since 1998 almost one thousand UNH students have worked through Seacoast Reads to tutor a like number of children. Sponsored by the Graduate Program in Reading and housed in the Department of Education, Seacoast Reads draws students from across the University and represents one of the largest service and outreach organizations on campus.


Thompson School Community Leadership Program

The Community Leadership Program is an innovative associate degree and diploma program that prepares students of all ages to work effectively within community organizations and to be active, influential citizens. This exhibition displays students' leadership portfolios and highlights significant community projects and partnerships.


UNH Office of Community Service Partnerships

This display showcases the work of student service organizations and student groups - ranging from spring break trips to residence hall community partnerships - engaged in community service and service-learning projects throughout the year.


Whittemore School of Business and Economics Paul J. Prize

University-wide Innovation-to-Market Competition, Poster Session


Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Symposium (ISE)

The ISE symposium welcomes and encourages scientific presentations from undergraduate students in all colleges and departments. The event features undergraduate research that contributes to or benefits from an interdisciplinary science and engineering perspective. Students have an opportunity to interact with peers and gain professional experience presenting research. Attendees learn more about research and educational opportunities in science and engineering at UNH. The program will include a poster session, remarks from university leaders, refreshments and an awards ceremony.


UNH Manchester Undergraduate Research Conference
Oral and Poster Presentations

Oral Presentations are formal scholarly lectures and/or multimedia presentations reflecting students’ research interests.


UNH Manchester Undergraduate Research Conference
Poster Presentations

Poster Presentations showcase students' independent research and internship projects, service learning activities and civic engagement projects in the learning lab of the city of Manchester.


UNH Manchester Undergraduate Research Conference
Engineering Technology Senior Project Presentations

The Engineering Technology Program will present its 31st annual Senior Project Presentation day. This event is the culmination of an academic year effort where full-time seniors formally present their projects to peers, faculty members, representatives and technical advisers of sponsoring companies, and special guests.


UNH Manchester Undergraduate Research Conference Cinema Day

The UNH Manchester communication arts program has a production track in which students complete introductory and advanced course work in video production, scriptwriting, audio production, film aesthetics, and documentary production. The student films and scripts illustrate student work at different stages in the curriculum.


The Naked Arts - Creativity Exposed

This event exposes the inner creative process of artists working in various disciplines. Presenters will describe the process, research, and other creative aspects undertaken to bring an artistic creation from initial inspiration to the stage or gallery. This may include a performance or excerpts from their work to illustrate their creative scholarship. Students may also present different applications of their creative work. Finally, there is an opportunity for students to perform and discuss a collaborative piece made as a result of interdisciplinary creativity within the artistic disciplines and/or through collaborative exchanges with students from other areas of the humanities and sciences. For more information, contact David Kaye (for Theatre and Dance)djk@unh.edu, Rob Haskins (for Music) rob.haskins@unh.edu, Christopher Kies (for Music) ckies@cisunix.unh.edu, Jennifer Moses (for Art) jkm@unh.edu.


Breakfast with University President Mark Huddleston and Interim Vice President for Research Taylor Eighmy

This informal gathering gives students and attendees an opportunity to visit with President Mark Huddleston and Interim Vice President for Research Taylor Eighmy. Huddleston and Eighmy will provide a preview of the large university-wide event that follows breakfast—the Vice President's Symposium.


Parents Association Undergraduate Research Symposium (formerly the Vice President's University-wide Symposium)

The Parents Association Undergraduate Research Symposium showcases students from all disciplines. Students present their faculty-mentored projects in either of two interactive posters sessions, or in one of the three oral presentations sessions. University-wide participants come from a variety of disciplines:


College of Health and Human Services Grimes Award Competition

Jack and Marianna Grimes and family, all UNH graduates, endowed the funds for this celebration of excellence in undergraduate research. The oral presentation competition includes finalists who have been selected by HHS faculty after rigorous scientific review of written proposals.


Psychology Department George M. Haslerud
Undergraduate Research Conference

The George M. Haslerud Undergraduate Research Conference, named for the late Professor Emeritus of Psychology, recognizes and celebrates undergraduate research conducted by psychology students. Students present their original research projects before an audience of UNH faculty, staff, graduate students, fellow undergraduates, and friends and family.


Honors English Undergraduate Research Conference

To complete Honors-in-English students must conduct a semester-long research project, culminating in a 30-40 page senior thesis. The Honors English Undergraduate Research Conference provides these students and students in the linguistics program with the opportunity to share their work with their fellow students, professors, and families. The presentations include poetry, autobiographical writing, journalism, and scholarship on literary texts from several different centuries.


Philosophy Undergraduate Research Conference

The Philosophy URC is a mosaic of concise and meaningful student presentations, varying from such philosophical topics as applied ethics, language theory, and social justice. Standard presentations predominantly last fifteen minutes and are subsequently followed by a brief question-and-answer period. All are welcome and sincerely encouraged to attend. Refreshments will be served.


17 th Annual COLSA Undergraduate Research Conference

Student presentations at the 17 th Annual COLSA URC are based on research conducted in any of the college's departments and run the full gamut of research found in the college from field studies to developmental to molecular biology and genomics studies. A number of studies are collaborative efforts between work here at UNH and work carried out in foreign countries.


Chemistry Department Poster Exhibition

The Chemistry Department Poster Exhibition is the result of students' yearlong senior thesis research in such areas as organic, inorganic, physical or analytical chemistry, and under the direction of their research advisor.


Mary Louise Fernald Nursing Research Symposium

The Mary Louise Fernald Nursing Research Symposium is a program of scholarly presentations by undergraduate Honors students and graduate students.


Whittemore School of Business and Economics
Paul J. Holloway Business Plan Competition

The Paul J. Holloway Business Plan Competition is an integral part of the undergraduate experience at the Whittemore School. Students are required to research and prepare business plans which they present to a panel of judges made up of industry leaders. Prizes are awarded for the most feasible and fundable plans for starting, acquiring, or expanding a business venture.