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2019 Staff Presidential Award Of Excellence, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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“It’S Never Too Late”, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

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Monitoring Multidimensional Poverty In The U.S., Sophie Mitra, Debra L. Brucker

Institute on Disability

On the international stage, poverty is increasingly understood multi-dimensionally as a deprivation of wellbeing in several dimensions rather than solely as a lack of income or low consumption. In the U.S., recent research shows that many people who are not counted as poor under the official or supplemental measures of income poverty experience multidimensional poverty. Yet there is no monitoring of multidimensional poverty. This paper examines trends in multidimensional poverty in the U.S. since 2013 using a measure that includes deprivations in family income, selfreported health status, educational attainment, employment status, and health insurance coverage. Using Current Population Survey data …

Unh Celebrates Largest Ever Class Of Doctoral Graduates, Lily Greenberg

UNH Today Archive

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Teaching English Abroad, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

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Unh Manchester Celebrates Class Of 2019 At 34th Annual Commencement Ceremony, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

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Unh Manchester Celebrates Student Achievement At 2019 Honors Convocation, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

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Travel As Education, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Comics In The Classroom, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

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Increasing Unh’S Impact, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

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Excavating Visual Texts: Information Literacy, Critical Thinking, And The Graphic Novel In The Crime Fiction Classroom, Susanne F. Paterson, Carolyn White Gamtso

Library Community Scholarship

Comics as the textual basis of information literacy (IL) instruction provide distinct pedagogical advantages at the same time as they throw up obstacles to that pedagogy. This chapter explores how students’ facility in decoding visual texts challenges instructors’ and librarians’ ability to provide the interpretive scaffold upon which students critically engage with visual primary materials. The authors, an English faculty member and an instruction librarian at the urban commuter campus of a state university, collaborated on an instruction unit which focused on Alan Moore’s graphic novel From Hell, as well as visual and textual contemporary sources exploring the comic’s …

Emic Views Of A Reading Intervention: A Qualitative Case Study Of Motivation And Engagement, Joy Dangora Erickson

Doctoral Dissertations

Although little attention has been paid to primary-age children’s reading motivation in comparison to older readers, one disturbing trend has been repeatedly observed: reading motivation generally declines across the early elementary years. Given that children’s perceptions of school experiences shape motivation, and motivation impacts achievement, it is imperative that we better understand how school programming intended to promote reading skill development influences younger students’ motivation to read within it and beyond it. This dissertation employs a qualitative case study design, an approach rarely used to examine reading motivation, to begin addressing the first concern; a sample (N=14) of kindergarten, first-grade, …

Beurling Theorems And Approximate Equivalence In Von Neumann Algebras, Wenjing Liu

Doctoral Dissertations

The main part of the thesis relates to generalized Beurling-Helson-Lowdenslager theorems on the unit disk, in multiply connected domains, and in finite von Neumann algebras. I have also obtained results on approximate unitary equivalence of representations of separable ASH C*-algebras in a semifinite von Neumann algebra, extending results of D. Voiculescu. In the last part of the thesis, I give two characterizations of tracially nuclear C*-algebras.

Rebel Rebels: Race, Resistance, And Remembrance In "The Free State Of Winston", Susan Neelly Deily-Swearingen

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT

REBEL REBELS: RACE, RESISTANCE, AND REMEMBRANCE IN

“THE FREE STATE OF WINSTON”

by

Susan Neelly Deily-Swearingen

University of New Hampshire

Murderous division was the defining characteristic of Winston County, Alabama during the turbulent Civil War era. To this day the county, located in the foothills of the Appalachians, retains its eponymous title “The Free State of Winston”- a reference to the county’s attempt to remain neutral during the war. It was not a universally welcomed position either within Winston County or in the somewhat sympathetic neighboring counties. A once tightly knit county of mostly non-slaveholding, subsistence farmers became homicidal, …

Navigating The Path To Presence: Ideology, Politics, And The Campaign For Gender Balanced Boards And Commissions In Iowa, Ezra Joseph Temko

Doctoral Dissertations

From 1986 through 1988, Iowa adopted and strengthened a gender balance law that required men and women be equally represented on state boards and commissions. In 2009, Iowa extended this law to also require its counties, municipalities, and school districts to gender balance their boards and commissions. Iowa’s law remains unique in the United States. Through archival research and interviews, my research investigates how advocates navigated the ideological landscape associated with this policy issue. My research unveils the mechanisms that substantially deradicalized gender balance in Iowa, enabling its passage and shifting Iowans’ perceptions of gender, governance, and affirmative action—disembedding gender …

Assessing Functional Connectivity Of The Neural Networks In Childhood Apraxia Of Speech Using Resting State Fmri Following The Treatment For Establishing Motor Program Organization (Tempo), Morgan James

Master's Theses and Capstones

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder characterized by segmentation (increased segment and intersegment duration), speech sound distortions and equal lexical stress. This study examined the effects of four weeks of Treatment for Establishing Motor Program Organization (TEMPO) in inducing experience-based changes in the brain. A fMRI resting state functional connectivity analysis was used in a single-subject pre- and post-TEMPO to quantify the changes associated with this treatment. Increases in connectivity strength between specific regions of the brain were observed, with the largest change in connectivity strength occurring between the left and right ventral premotor cortex (vPMC). …

About The Authors

Comm-entary

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2018-19 Faculty Senate Xxiii - April 29, 2019 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Consumer Confidence In Nh Still High But May Have Peaked 4/25/2019, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Confidence in New Hampshire businesses is still high but has declined for the 2nd consecutive quarter. The NH economy has been strong for several years and unemployment is at record lows, but there are still signs of slippage.

Shaheen Viewed Favorably By Half Of Granite Staters In Run-Up To 2020 Reelection Campaign 4/24/2019, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

In the run-up to the 2020 elections, New Hampshire's senior senator Jeanne Shaheen continues to have high favorability. Shaheen's colleague in the Senate, Maggie Hassan, is slightly less popular, while Representative Annie Kuster is only somewhat popular in NH's Second District. Just over half of NH First District residents are neutral or aren't sure of their opinion of newly-elected Representative Chris Pappas.

Sununu's Job Approval Falls From All-Time High; Bipartisan Optimism About Nh Overall 4/23/2019, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Governor Chris Sununu's job approval has declined from an all-time high in February, but his approval mirrors that of his predecessor Maggie Hassan at the same point in her governorship. Only four in ten Democrats approve of Sununu's performance as Governor, but they are just as likely as Republicans to say the state is headed in the right direction. The percentage of Granite Staters who cite the drug crisis as the most important problem facing the state has fallen by nearly 20% over the past year.

Sanders Increases Lead Over Biden As Buttigieg Vaults Into Top 3; Little Support For Potential Challengers To Trump 4/22/2019, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Bernie Sanders continues to lead the Democratic field in New Hampshire and a plurality of likely Democratic voters say he is the most progressive candidate and has the best chance to win the general election. Support for South Bend (IN) Mayor Pete Buttigieg has increased markedly since February and nearly equals support for Joe Biden. Half of likely Democratic voters express concern over how nominating a candidate over 70 will affect the general election; fewer are worried about nominating an openly gay or female candidate. Likely Republican primary voters express little support for potential challengers to Donald Trump.

Approval Of Trump Stable, Increases Among Core Constituencies 4/19/2019, Unh Survey Center

All UNH Survey Center Polls

Four in ten New Hampshire residents approve of Donald Trump's performance as President, largely unchanged over the past year. Approval of Trump has increased over the past year among core groups of supporters such as conservative radio listeners and self-described conservatives. Granite Staters continue to give Trump higher marks for his handling of the economy than his handling of foreign affairs, approval of which is at its lowest point since February 2018.

Money, Cynicism And Friendship, Krysten Godfrey Maddocks

UNH Today Archive

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Dyf Recipients Honored At Grc, Kristen Melamed

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Wildcats In The World: Shayla Radcliffe ’15 At The Children’S Center For Communication-Beverly School For The Deaf, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

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Unh Manchester Names 2019 Campus Compact For New Hampshire Presidents’ Award Winners, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

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Wildcats In The World: Kara Kelly-Martin ’19 In Asl/English Interpreting Field Experience, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

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The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 23 (Apr. 4, 2019), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 108, but it is the 109th volume in the series.

Heroes, Villains And People Like Us, Eliga Gould

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