Beth Potier
Beth Potier's Articles
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NIH Grant Boosts NH's Biomedical Research Capacity
A five-year $18.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to a statewide partnership led by UNH and Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine will expand biomedical research capacity and... -
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Inquiring Minds
The Big Burp Theory Geologists drill for climate clues About 55 million years ago, the Earth burped up a massive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — an amount equivalent to burning... -
More Than Mapping
Since its founding in 1999, UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM), along with the complementary Joint Hydrographic Center (a NOAA partner), has established itself as the world leader in... -
Strong Muscles, Fleet Feet
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Crew Boss Rachel Rawlinson Named Northeast Region Coach of the Year
Rachel Rawlinson '99, head coach of UNH Rowing, was named the Northeast Region Coach of the Year by the American Collegiate Rowing Association at its national championship regatta May 23 -24 in... -
A (Nuclear) Force To Be Reckoned With
UNH physicist Patricia Solvignon has received a prestigious Early Career Research Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. -
The Dirt on Studio Soils
In 2010, about a decade into teaching the large Introduction to Soils course, UNH soil scientist Serita Frey steered her class into uncharted territory. With inspiration from the physics department... -
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For These UNH Students, It Is Rocket Science
Long before it blasts into space March 12, the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will have launched the careers of would-be rocket scientists who contributed to the mission as UNH... -
Out of the Clinic, Out of the Box
As part of her training to become a practicing occupational therapist, Risa LaPera ’14,’15G talks to her client Dan, a retiree with vision loss due to glaucoma, through a radio headset. “You still... -
Kelp Is On the Way
Seaweed has been on the menu for thousands of years, beloved particularly in Asia for packing a nutritional punch with the complex flavor of umami. Now, UNH researchers are hoping to tap locavore... -
Code Comfort
Do you want to build a snowflake? If so, you’ll have to learn some code – but as nearly 40 elementary school children learned Friday afternoon (Dec. 12) at UNH, that’s not so hard. With ubiquitous “... -
Turkey, Football, Snow
Gathering together: From left, Ron Potier, father of the hostess; UNH graduate students Xiaoyi Tang and Shivam Goyal; host Brent Bell, associate professor of kinesiology at UNH; Kathy Potier, mother... -
Good, Clean (Safe) Fun: Professor Showers for Lab Safety
Lab safety took a zany, soggy turn Tuesday, when the Environmental Research Group tapped Nancy Kinner, professor of civil and environmental engineering, for a hands-on demonstration of the emergency... -
MVP
When it comes to head and helmet safety, one of the NFL’s most valuable players isn’t a quarterback, a receiver, or even a coach. In fact, Erik Swartz isn’t a football player at all—the former rugby... -
In Science We Trust?
Gun control. Abortion. The death penalty. You wouldn’t be alone in assuming that these are the hot-button issues that create the widest philosophical and political divide between Republicans and... -
Keeping Their Heads OUT of the Game
Once a week, several dozen UNH football players participate in an innovative, if counterintuitive, drill to minimize head trauma: They remove their helmets and tackle each other. -
CAREER Builder: Three UNH Faculty Members Receive Prestigious Awards
Three UNH faculty members have received prestigious National Science Foundation awards to support their work predicting earthquakes, recycling carbon dioxide into fuel and measuring methane bubbles. -
A Great Day To Be a Bobcat
New Hampshire’s bobcats are on the rise — and on the move, showing up in places they’ve never been reported before. Those are the major findings from a four-year study of the animal that puts the “... -
Green and White
The rate of winter warming has tripled in the U.S. since 1970. The northern hemisphere has lost one million square miles of spring snowpack in the last 50 years. As many as half the ski resorts in... -
It’s Alive!
A new project led by UNH engineers will transform the Memorial Bridge over the Piscataqua River into a “living” bridge that could change the way we look at bridges and infrastructure in the near... -
Freshest Fish: Found!
Amanda Parks gets dressed for some fishing. Looking for a seafood dinner that’s off-the-boat fresh? Wondering whether dogfish tastes better with butter or breadcrumbs? Thanks to senior Amanda Parks... -
The Oyster Is Their World
Steve Jones, research associate professor of natural resources and the environment and a water quality specialist, samples Great Bay with Ph.D. student Meg Hartwick. Consider the gifts of the oyster... -
Glacial Race
Courtesy Photo It only sounds like a joke: When the world’s fastest-moving glacier sped up in the summer of 2012 – suddenly surging from Greenland’s west coast at four times its 1990s rate – UNH... -
UNH Professor Is NFL's MVP for Equipment Research
When the NFL wanted to evaluate the impact of non-standard facemasks on player safety, they turned to UNH kinesiology professor Erik Swartz for the data. His findings led to the league’s much-... -
Global OT
As an occupational therapist, Tracey Ellis ’93 is trained to solve problems. So when her Washington, D.C.-based Ellis Therapeutic Consultants began delivering occupational therapy (OT) to American... -
Reduce, Reuse, Peecycle
Visitors to downtown Durham this spring might have noticed students sporting an unusual accessory: a sticker with a yellow droplet on it proclaiming "I donated my nitrogen." No personal sacrifice was... -
Gone Fishin’
On Wednesday, April 16 UNH will host its first Sustainable Seafood Dinner at Holloway Commons from 4:30 to 9:00 p.m. The dinner will highlight locally caught seafood and New England’s fishing... -
A Step Ahead
Student Sarah Drumheller and her internship supervisor Elizabeth Barbin talk with a patient at Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital. -
Golden Opportunity
Conversations with Katey Stone ’89 about her job—head coach for Harvard women’s ice hockey on hiatus to coach the U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team—are sprinkled with words like “fun,” “joy,” “... -
Pre-Med, With Feeling
Why would anyone leave Chocolatetown, U.S.A., for a state that brags about granite? For Hershey, Penn., native Ben Claxton ’14, the lure was the lab. Specifically, the opportunity for the pre-med... -
Strawberry Fields...for Now
Jenny Jing ’13 loves strawberries, and that’s a good thing. She’s worked in the lab of professor Tom Davis, a leading strawberry genetics researcher, for three years. -
UNH Students Compete in Washington, D.C., With Innovative Wind Energy Project
A University of New Hampshire student project seeking to harvest the wind energy from bridge underpasses has been selected to compete for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) People,... -
UNH Student Wins Third Place in Science Competition
A first-year student at the University of New Hampshire is a top-three United States finisher in an international science competition. Sarah Kremer ’15, an ecology, evolution, and behavior major from... -
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UNH Research Brings New Understanding to Past Global Warming Events
A series of global warming events called hyperthermals that occurred more than 50 million years ago had a similar origin to a much larger hyperthermal of the period, the Pelaeocene-Eocene Thermal... -
UNH Equestrians Win Regional Championships
The University of New Hampshire's Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association (IHSA) team has won the team regional championship for the northern New England region for the second consecutive year,... -
Resisting Hackers in a Single Keystroke
Some of the world's wiliest hackers were no match for a team of University of New Hampshire computer science students that triumphed with a second-place finish at the 2012 Northeast Collegiate Cyber... -
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ADVANCE Program Makes Awards to Women Faculty in the Sciences
UNH Professors Serita Frey and Lynn Kistler are recipients of recent grants from the UNH ADVANCE program. -
UNH Faculty Receive $1.3 Million in Prestigious NSF CAREER Grants
Three University of New Hampshire faculty members will explore energy from the ocean, manufacturing on a tiny scale, and speedier computer planning, thanks to prestigious Faculty Early Career... -
UNH Ocean Scientists Shed New Light on Mariana Trench
Map view of bathymetry of southern Mariana Trench Challenger Deep area. Arrow points to circle that identifies the location of the deepest sounding in the trench (10,994 meters). White contours are...