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Unh Manchester Welcomes New Director Of First-Year Writing, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

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Change Yourself, Change The World, Colleen Flaherty

UNH Today Archive

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Covid Collaboration, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

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A Safety Net For Those In Need, Michelle Morrissey

UNH Today Archive

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The Female Legal Realist Inside The Common Law, Ann Bartow

Law Faculty Scholarship

This essay, a response piece to Anita Bernstein’s thought-provoking book The Common Law Inside the Female Body, examines the powerful tool of the common law and the role that judges play in wielding it. I begin by drawing on my twenty-four years of teaching and looking at the questions that I, and my students, grapple with every year while studying the common law: Do the uncoordinated actions of individual judges, juries, and lawyers and parties generate an efficient legal system? And does that system result in some version of justice for most of the parties, most of the time, …

Brain Networks Underlying Inhibition In Traumatic Brain Injury And In Autism Spectrum Disorders, Gwyneth Faith Peacock

Master's Theses and Capstones

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) are clinical populations with social cognition difficulties, exhibited by deficits in controlling impulsive or perseverative behaviors. These difficulties have been attributed to executive functioning (EF) impairments, particularly for inhibition. Thus, understanding the neural bases of inhibition is preliminary to understanding EF impairments in populations like ASD and TBI. A coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies was used to identify the neural basis of response inhibition in neurotypical adults to compare with TBI and ASD. Inclusion criteria for studies required reported foci for adults (17+ years of age), reported …

Narrative Discourse In Traumatic Brain Injury: Examining The Validity And Clinical Utility Of Main Concept, Sequencing, And Story Grammar (Mssg) Analyses, Shannon M. Duffy

Master's Theses and Capstones

Background & Aims: Narrative discourse, or storytelling, is critical to assess in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) as many of them present with deficits in accuracy, completeness, and logical sequencing of story content as well as in story grammar organization. Richardson and Dalton (2016) and Greenslade et al. (in submission) created Main Concept, Sequencing, and Story Grammar (MSSG) to analyze these variables in Cinderella narratives, with preliminary data revealing age-related declines in neurologically healthy control (NHC) performance. To extend these findings, the present study sought to evaluate MSSG’s clinical utility in identifying narrative deficits in adults with TBI. Research …

Story Grammar Analysis Of Cinderella Narratives In Adults With And Without Traumatic Brain Injury, Melanie Pond

Master's Theses and Capstones

Background: Narrative organization, as measured by story grammar analysis, is often impaired in individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, existing analyses for adults with TBI use relatively simple stories and typically capture the proportion of tangential contributions, rather than organization itself.

Aim: This study’s aim was to expand upon existing analyses by comparing story grammar organization in a complex story, Cinderella, told by individuals with TBI versus non-brain injured (NBI) individuals. Expanded analyses addressed narrative length in episodes and story grammar elements, episodic completeness and elaboration, and the proportion of non-story grammar (NSG) elements (e.g., tangents).

Methods: Transcripts of …

Bullying Trends In The United States And An Analysis Of The Impact Of Prevention Programs On Bullying Subtypes And Gender, Reeve Kennedy

Doctoral Dissertations

This three-article dissertation presents three standalone articles that address bullying trends over time within the United States (US), gaps in bullying prevention program outcomes (both within the US and internationally), and the role of study and methodological features on the findings. The first article used meta-regression to establish trends in different types of bullying involvement from 1998 to 2017, identified factors that help explain variation in bullying trends, and determined differences in those trends by gender and grade. The second article used meta-analysis to examine the effectiveness of bullying prevention programs on three subtypes of traditional bullying victimization: physical, relational, …

“Speaking Of Dignity”: Interviews With Non-Unionized Adjunct Faculty Teaching In An English Department At A Catholic Church-Affiliated University, Jacob Aaron Bennett

Doctoral Dissertations

This study considers the phenomenon of “dignity” as experienced by non-unionized, part-time, English Department faculty at a Catholic Church-affiliated campus in the Northeast region of the United States; I refer to the institution as Urban Catholic University. This focus is motivated by the apparent tension between Catholic social traditions regarding labor rights and worker dignity, on the one hand, and working conditions for adjuncts as described in the literature on higher education faculty employment. To wit, the labor-positive and union-affirmative tradition in Catholic Social Teaching (CST) has been unequivocally supportive of the rights of workers to unionize since the 1890s, …

Full Disclosure: Scholars In Rhetoric And Composition Discuss Transparency In Religious-Based Research, Lauren Short

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation explores how and why scholars in Rhetoric and Composition, who study religious topics, choose to disclose (or not) their positionalities in relation to their research. Included in this investigation are scholars of atheist rhetorics, as well. Through interviews with scholars of religious topics in Rhetoric and Composition and textual analysis of religiously-based academic scholarship in the field, I explore the situations and contexts in which scholars feel most comfortable disclosing their positionalities and how they do so. Furthermore, I examine why some scholars choose not to disclose their positionalities in particular instances.

Drawing upon queer theory and “coming …

Indefinable Forces: How Teachers Negotiate Narratives Of Ability And Inclusivity While Applying Universal Design For Learning, Beth S. Fornauf

Doctoral Dissertations

Despite efforts of educators and advocates to include students with labeled disabilities in all aspects of public education, many are segregated, deprived of interactions with peers, and offered content lacking in rigor and relevance. In one New England state, public schools have the opportunity to participate in a statewide initiative that aims to combat such exclusion, and make learning more effective for all through Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a pedagogical framework focused on the design of instructional materials, methods, and environments to optimize teaching and learning for all students. This ethnographic case study explores how educators applying …

Am I A Math Or Science Person? How High School Students’ Attitudes Towards Mathematics And Science Influence Their Decision To Major In Stem, Dalton Dayne Marsh

Doctoral Dissertations

Motivated by an innovation-driven economy, critical emphasis has been placed on the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce in the United States. Education has been charged to prepare a diverse population of young people qualified to take up these jobs and lead the nation into a rapidly evolving technological future. How to best approach this goal is still being negotiated. While past research and efforts focused largely on improving students’ achievement in mathematics and science, more recent research points to the need to also consider students’ attitudes towards STEM subjects. However, what types of attitudes (e.g., self-efficacy, identity, interest, …

Fostering A Feeling Of Betrayal: United States Foreign Policy And The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Thomas Pelchat

Master's Theses and Capstones

This thesis seeks to explain the development and implementation of United States foreign policy towards Eastern Europe in general, but specifically Hungary under President Eisenhower. The Eisenhower administration created a system in which two distinct, and at times contradictory foreign policy messages were broadcast to the people of Hungary, one that supported a general idea of rolling back Communism and another that seemed to promise specific help doing just that. This pairing had the effect of instilling in the Hungarian people a belief that the United States would come to their aid when they revolted against their Communist government in …

Goodbye And Thanks For All The Fish: The Inevitable Mass Extinction Of Vertebrate Wildlife In The United States By 2100 Ad, Richard Maximus Strahan

Master's Theses and Capstones

The last stages of a global mass extinction event (GME) that started in the Pleistocene is likely to be continuing across the nations of the Earth. In the United States (“Nation”), it will likely climax (“Climax”) by 2100 AD when it will wipe out about 80% of endemic, vertebrate wildlife species. It will reduce the populations and ranges of the Nation’s surviving vertebrate species to minimal values. This will be the 6th such mass extinction of wildlife species to have occurred in the Earth’s history.

This is a reasonable inference from available data reported in journal articles since 1990 on …

Hampton Court Palace: Henry Viii's Cabinet Of Curiosity Exhibiting The Abraham Tapestries, Lindsay Brooke Gross

Master's Theses and Capstones

This thesis evaluates Hampton Court Palace as King Henry VIII’s cabinet of curiosity while looking at the Christian symbolism Henry associated with the Abraham Tapestries. Henry VIII was an avid collector, as shown in the 1547 Inventory that was completed 18 months after he died. The inventory recorded 2,450 tapestries, with one of the most important sets from that list being the Abraham Tapestries, which depict the relationship God had to Abraham and his son Isaac. Henry had a strong connection to the Abraham tapestries because of their Christian symbolism. Henry viewed himself as an Abraham to his people and …

Competing Americas: Letters To The Fcc On Father Charles Coughlin, Alyssa Roy

Master's Theses and Capstones

On November 20, 1938, Father Charles Coughlin—colloquially known as the Radio Priest—gave a speech over the radio in which, among other things, he blamed the Jewish victims of Kristallnacht for their own suffering. This speech sparked a storm of protest and counterprotest, exemplified by more than one thousand letters sent to the Federal Communications Commission from 1938 to 1939. Americans on both sides of the controversy wrote to the FCC to express their approval or disapproval of Coughlin’s program, and to call on the agency to act in some way. In reacting to Coughlin, these Americans spoke to larger conversations …

Comm-Entary, Spring 2020 - Full Issue

Comm-entary

In this issue:

Changing Dynamics in Digital Culture & Society: The Phenomenon of “Blackfishing” by Estefania De La Torre

A Royal Pain: Tensions of Womanhood in Padmaavat by Hannah Baum

A Narrative of Antiquity: An Analysis of the Shift in Ecclesiastical-Secular Power in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy by Kyra Nelson

The Conflict over Cliché by David Hadley

Nano-Influencers as a Commodity by Caila Kilson-Kuchtic

Instagram On Paper: Journaling, Photography and Mindfulness by Emma Barresi

A Rhetorical Analysis of Twitter: ISTE Educational Technology Conference Exhibitors by Hannah Baum

DNA Databases: Problematic on Grounds of Constitutionality, Fallibility, and Discriminatory Practice …

The Agroecosystem Project At The Organic Dairy Research Farm, University Of New Hampshire, John D. Aber, Matthew M. Smith, Allison M. Leach, William H. Mcdowell, Michelle Daley Shattuck, Nicole A. Williamson, Dena M. Hoffman, J. Matthew Davis

Faculty Publications

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Hegel’S Pragmatism, Willem A. Devries

Faculty Publications

This chapter examines Hegel’s complex relation to pragmatism. After a short review of the extant literature on their relation, deVries focuses on their shared rejection of the Cartesian tradition, which assumes that minds are immaterial, self-contained substances that are (1) transparent to themselves, (2) known directly or immediately to themselves, (3) prior to and independently of any knowledge of any other created substance, e.g., the external world. Hegel and the pragmatists rejected this view for at least three reasons. (1) The Cartesians employ an impoverished conception of experience that does not do justice to the complex interplay of the sensory …

2019-2020 Faculty Senate Xxiv - April 27, 2020 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Uruguayan Marijuana Decriminalization: Crime Rates, Support Levels, And Implications For The United States, Emily Soule

Inquiry Journal 2020

This commentary describes selected results from a study conducted using self-reported crime victimization rates, levels of marijuana policy support, and demographic information collected from adult citizens of Uruguay. Surveys were performed by the Latin American Public Opinion Project. In 2013, Uruguay decriminalized marijuana and planned to create a state-run marijuana industry, which began sales in 2017. I found that levels of safety in one’s neighborhood, both perceived and actual, remained the same throughout or did not correlate to the marijuana decriminalization process in 2013. I also found that those who reported having a close friend or family member who used …

2020 Nh Primary Voters Found It Easy To Vote, Confident Vote Was Counted Accurately 4/14/2020, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

The vast majority of voters in New Hampshire's "First in the Nation" primary found it easy to vote; more than ninety percent of primary participants said it was very or somewhat easy to vote while only one in twenty said it was somewhat or very difficult to do so. More than four in five primary voters were very confident their vote was accurately counted while nearly all of the rest were somewhat confident. When asked about a month before the election, likely voters had been slightly more pessimistic about their perceived ease of voting in the primary and their confidence …

Growing As An Undergraduate Researcher And The Benefits Of Directed Research, Jake Gehrung

Inquiry Journal 2020

Research ventures have proven beneficial for society as whole, producing a plethora of results and findings that have improved our understanding of our planet and beyond. The number of opportunities for undergraduate students to get involved with research is growing, but the structure and expectations of these opportunities vary. It is important for students and mentors to recognize the most efficient course of action for novice researchers. As an experienced undergraduate researcher, I can attest to the variety of opportunities available and the chronology in which they should be pursued. I completed a water systems research project as a sophomore, …

Clothing And Power In The Royal World Of Catherine Of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, And Elizabeth I), Niki Toy-Caron

Inquiry Journal 2020

In 1509, Henry VIII began one of the most infamous reigns of English history. It is not for his brilliant mind or his musical talent that he is remembered, but for his many wives. Because he could not get the divorce he needed from the Catholic church, Henry VIII, once named Defender of the Faith by the Pope, broke with the Catholic Church in 1533 and created the Church of England, with himself as head. Although Henry forced his will against the most powerful religious institution of the time, the women at the heart of the dispute had very little …

Episodes From The History Of American-Soviet Cultural Relations: Stanford Slavic Studies, Volume 5 (1992), Lazar Fleishman, Ronald D. Leblanc (Translator)

Faculty Publications

Appearing here for the first time in an English-language translation are four of the illuminating essays, written by the renowned Pasternak scholar, Professor Lazar Fleishman, that are contained in his book, From the History of Russian and Soviet Culture: Documents from the Hoover Institution (Stanford Slavic Studies, Volume 5), published in 1992. These four essays appear in the section of his book, titled “Episodes from the History of American-Soviet Cultural Relations,” which includes the following: (1) “Introduction,” an introductory essay that provides background on the American journalist Joseph Freeman, (2) “Joseph Freeman and Boris Pilnyak,” an essay that explores Freeman’s …

Media, Gender, And National Identity In Almaty, Kazakhstan, Darby O'Neil

Inquiry Journal 2020

Kazakhstan is the largest country in central Asia, in terms of both land size and economy. Historically, Kazakhstan was a nomadic society with gender roles based on gendered division of labor. But throughout three centuries of colonial rule, first by Imperial Russia and then by the Soviet Union, Kazakh society and gender roles were transformed by various colonial policies. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, however, Kazakhstan was suddenly an independent country and was faced for the first time with creating a unique national identity and idea of what it means to be Kazakh. This has led the Kazakh …

2020 Inquiry Journal: Abstracts, Brigid C. Casellini

Inquiry Journal 2020

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2020 Inquiry Journal: Editorial Staff, Brigid C. Casellini

Inquiry Journal 2020

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Unh Sparked Passion, Capacity For Digital Literacy, Ali Goldstein

UNH Today Archive

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