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Top Oil Spill Expert Available To Discuss 10th Anniversary Of Deepwater Horizon, Robbin Ray Apr 2020

Top Oil Spill Expert Available To Discuss 10th Anniversary Of Deepwater Horizon, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Behavioral Finance Of Impact Investing: The Case Of Donor-Advised Funds, Eric Hangen, Michael E. Swack, Jordan Hensley Apr 2020

Behavioral Finance Of Impact Investing: The Case Of Donor-Advised Funds, Eric Hangen, Michael E. Swack, Jordan Hensley

Carsey Publications

Undeployed charitable assets in donor-advised funds (DAFs) reached $121.4 billion in 2018‒including $33.9 billion at Community Foundations. Most of these undeployed funds are invested in conventional financial instruments. However, DAFs present a unique opportunity to promote impact investing into the local community, including Community Development Financial Institutions that serve their local communities. In this report, authors Eric Hangen, Michael Swack, and Jordan Hensley discuss the results of their study to see whether DAF donors’ choices of how to invest undeployed funds can be influenced by a change in how donor choices are presented, with the intention of increasing the percentage …


Can Utilitarianism Improve The Us Criminal Justice System? An Evaluation Of Punishment And The Utility Calculus, Piper Gibson Apr 2020

Can Utilitarianism Improve The Us Criminal Justice System? An Evaluation Of Punishment And The Utility Calculus, Piper Gibson

Inquiry Journal 2020

During the summer of 2019 I had the opportunity to participate in the Research Experience and Apprenticeship Program (REAP) under the mentorship of Professor Nick Smith at the University of New Hampshire. In this commentary I introduce the research I completed during this program. I discuss the philosophy of utilitarianism, which was first popularized by European philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill during the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, and explore how their utility calculus can be used to justify and prescribe punishments. I criticize the utility calculus’s reliance on standard sentencing and other logistical issues associated with the …


A Little Bright Light, Michelle Morrissey Apr 2020

A Little Bright Light, Michelle Morrissey

UNH Today Archive

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Community Needs Survey In Response To Covid-19 Summary Report, Charlie French Apr 2020

Community Needs Survey In Response To Covid-19 Summary Report, Charlie French

UNH Cooperative Extension

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Unh Research Finds Rural Areas With Seasonal Homes Hit Hard By Covid-19, Robbin Ray Apr 2020

Unh Research Finds Rural Areas With Seasonal Homes Hit Hard By Covid-19, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Manufactured Agility, Jody Record Apr 2020

Manufactured Agility, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

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Remote Sensing For River Restoration And Dam Removal Studies, Bonnie Turek Apr 2020

Remote Sensing For River Restoration And Dam Removal Studies, Bonnie Turek

Inquiry Journal 2020

Inspired by the influence of drone applications in scientific research, my Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) study aimed to improve the accuracy of riverine topographic modeling by testing the use of terrestrial and submerged aquatic ground control points (GCPs) in drone surveys of the Bellamy River Reservoir. Accurate mapping of riverscapes is critical to investigations of before-and-after management activities, such as dam removals, and to better understanding topographic features created by physical, chemical, and biological processes in rivers and watersheds. These studies build on our increasing understanding and quantification of the cycling of chemical and biological substances in rivers and …


Covid-19 Resources, Institute For Health Policy And Practice, Josephine B. Porter Apr 2020

Covid-19 Resources, Institute For Health Policy And Practice, Josephine B. Porter

All Materials

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An Older Population Increases Estimated Covid-19 Death Rates In Rural America, Kenneth M. Johnson Apr 2020

An Older Population Increases Estimated Covid-19 Death Rates In Rural America, Kenneth M. Johnson

Carsey Publications

In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson estimates the influence that the local age structure has on coronavirus death rates among those exposed to it in rural and urban counties in the United States. He reports that the older age structure of rural America increases its vulnerability to the coronavirus. Though rural exposure to the virus was limited early in the pandemic, it is now spreading rapidly there. Rural America’s older age structure increases expected mortality rates there, but other factors also influence its vulnerability to the virus. The fates of rural and urban America are inextricably intertwined, so responding to …


Facetime, Faith And Zoom’Ing Through Holy Week; Unh Expert On Worshipping During Covid-19, Robbin Ray Apr 2020

Facetime, Faith And Zoom’Ing Through Holy Week; Unh Expert On Worshipping During Covid-19, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Rural Areas With Seasonal Homes Hit Hard By Covid-19, Jess Carson Apr 2020

Rural Areas With Seasonal Homes Hit Hard By Covid-19, Jess Carson

Carsey Publications

In this data snapshot, author Jess Carson finds that rural counties where at least 25 percent of the housing units are for seasonal use are hit especially hard by COVID-19 compared with urban and other kinds of rural counties.


Media, Gender, And National Identity In Almaty, Kazakhstan, Darby O'Neil Apr 2020

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 …


Rural Mass. Worries About Capacity To Handle Covid-19, Unh Communications And Public Affairs Apr 2020

Rural Mass. Worries About Capacity To Handle Covid-19, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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Episodes From The History Of American-Soviet Cultural Relations: Stanford Slavic Studies, Volume 5 (1992), Lazar Fleishman, Ronald D. Leblanc (Translator) Apr 2020

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 …


Cdfis Can Make The Sba Ppp Loan Program Work For Smaller, Minority-Owned, And Women-Owned, Small Businesses, Eric Hangen, Michael E. Swack Apr 2020

Cdfis Can Make The Sba Ppp Loan Program Work For Smaller, Minority-Owned, And Women-Owned, Small Businesses, Eric Hangen, Michael E. Swack

Carsey Publications

As currently being implemented by the Small Business Administration (SBA), the loans made available through the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), part of the CARES Act recently enacted to address the COVID-19 crisis, are likely to significantly bypass smaller small businesses and those that are minority- or women-owned. In this brief, authors Eric Hangen and Michael Swack discuss a simple policy solution to increase the effectiveness of the SBA PPP. Allowing certified Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) to disburse SBA PPP loans would enable CDFIs to serve community-oriented small businesses, helping them to continue to employ thousands of people—something …


Contributing To The Field Of Dam Removal Science: Analyzing Sediment Characteristics In Mill Pond And Sawyer Mill, Hannah Miller Apr 2020

Contributing To The Field Of Dam Removal Science: Analyzing Sediment Characteristics In Mill Pond And Sawyer Mill, Hannah Miller

Inquiry Journal 2020

Dams have served a vital role in American industry, providing flood control, irrigation, navigation, and hydropower. However, many of these dams no longer serve their initial purpose or are potentially hazardous to downstream communities because of aging infrastructure. Dam removals are becoming increasingly popular methods of reducing the risk of dam failure, restoring river ecological function, and eliminating long-term costs associated with maintenance and repairs. Dams do more than just store water; as water approaches the impoundment area, its velocity is reduced, which allows suspended sediment to settle and accumulate in the impoundment area. Removing a dam allows some fraction …


A Little Batch Of Helping, Jody Record Apr 2020

A Little Batch Of Helping, Jody Record

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Sanitizing N95 Masks With Alternatives Like Uv Light; Unh Expert Offers Comment, Robbin Ray Apr 2020

Sanitizing N95 Masks With Alternatives Like Uv Light; Unh Expert Offers Comment, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


Unh Research Looks At Role Of Politics And Media In Covid-19 Pandemic, Robbin Ray Apr 2020

Unh Research Looks At Role Of Politics And Media In Covid-19 Pandemic, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

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Views Of A Fast-Moving Pandemic: A Survey Of Granite Staters’ Responses To Covid-19, Thomas G. Safford, Lawrence C. Hamilton Apr 2020

Views Of A Fast-Moving Pandemic: A Survey Of Granite Staters’ Responses To Covid-19, Thomas G. Safford, Lawrence C. Hamilton

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Thomas Safford and Lawrence Hamilton report the results of a Granite State Panel survey (March 17-26), asking New Hampshire residents about their views concerning government responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) and whether they changed their daily routine because of the pandemic. They report that New Hampshire residents who approve of President Trump’s handling of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and those who regularly watch Fox News are less likely than others to have made major changes in their routines due to COVID-19. Granite Staters have polarized opinions about President Trump’s handling of the pandemic: 40 …


Professional Nurse-Led Unjani Clinics: Empowering The Nurse Entrepreneur, Bri Mcgrath Apr 2020

Professional Nurse-Led Unjani Clinics: Empowering The Nurse Entrepreneur, Bri Mcgrath

Inquiry Journal 2020

South Africa, burdened by a wide wealth gap, meets the healthcare needs of the minority with health insurance but provides unreliable services for the uninsured. The uninsured clients suffer from long public clinic wait times and poor-quality care. The Unjani model was launched to provide high-quality affordable primary health care (PHC) to employed but uninsured families. Unjani aims to empower black women nurses as entrepreneurs and providers by providing them with shipping containers converted into world-class health clinics. Although nurses are central to the Unjani model, there is no published research describing their experience. I performed a qualitative study to …


Unh Research Leads To New Drinking Water Standard In Granite State, Lori Wright Apr 2020

Unh Research Leads To New Drinking Water Standard In Granite State, Lori Wright

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


2020 Inquiry Journal: Abstracts, Brigid C. Casellini Apr 2020

2020 Inquiry Journal: Abstracts, Brigid C. Casellini

Inquiry Journal 2020

No abstract provided.


Unh Uses 3d Printers For Medical Face Shields And Converts Gym For Covid-19 Care, Robbin Ray Apr 2020

Unh Uses 3d Printers For Medical Face Shields And Converts Gym For Covid-19 Care, Robbin Ray

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


The Cost Of Surgical Site Infections: A Look At The Financial And Medical Impact On Patients And Hospitals, Amy Fournier Apr 2020

The Cost Of Surgical Site Infections: A Look At The Financial And Medical Impact On Patients And Hospitals, Amy Fournier

M.S. in Health Care Management

The aim of this project is to explore the financial and medical impact surgical site infections (SSI) have on the patients and Maine Medical Center. In the United States each year there are an estimated 15 million surgical procedures performed. Moreover, surgical site infections are the leading healthcare acquired infection and cost about $10 billion in direct and indirect costs each year. SSIs also increase morbidity and mortality. The strategy most often used is a bundle, or a group of measures aimed at a specific outcome. The bundle is used by the team to include the patient and all phases …


Health-Related Illness Facing First Responders, Brian Allard Apr 2020

Health-Related Illness Facing First Responders, Brian Allard

M.S. in Leadership

This research project is aimed to help identify the long-term health-related illnesses facing first responders today and provide information to their leadership on how they can assist their first responders through these events. First responders play a critical role in every community around the world in protecting the public during emergency events. They are often the first to respond to natural disasters, medical emergencies, house fires, and pandemics. A question that often goes unanswered is how these events affect the overall health and well-being of our first responders, both physically and mentally. Some of the specific health-related illnesses that will …


2019 Inquiry Journal: Abstracts, Brigid C. Casellini Apr 2020

2019 Inquiry Journal: Abstracts, Brigid C. Casellini

Inquiry Journal 2019

No abstract provided.


Correcting Tree-Ring Δ13c Time Series For Tree-Size Effects In Eight Temperate Tree Species, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, Katie A. Jennings, Andrew P. Ouimette, Heidi Asbjornsen Apr 2020

Correcting Tree-Ring Δ13c Time Series For Tree-Size Effects In Eight Temperate Tree Species, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, Katie A. Jennings, Andrew P. Ouimette, Heidi Asbjornsen

All Materials

Stable carbon isotope ratios (δ13C) in tree rings have been widely used to study changes in intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE), sometimes with limited consideration of how C-isotope discrimination is affected by tree height and canopy position. Our goals were to quantify the relationships between tree size or tree microenvironment and wood δ13C for eight functionally diverse temperate tree species in northern New England, and to better understand the physical and physiological mechanisms underlying these differences. We collected short increment cores in closed-canopy stands and analyzed δ13C in the most recent 5 years of growth. …


Resource Guide For Consumers: How To Access Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Benefits, Lucy C. Hodder, Connor Buchholz, Marguerite Corvini, Bridget Drake Apr 2020

Resource Guide For Consumers: How To Access Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Benefits, Lucy C. Hodder, Connor Buchholz, Marguerite Corvini, Bridget Drake

All Materials

No abstract provided.