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Unh Research Finds Uneven Distribution Of Retail Food And Food Support Sites Across The State, Erika Mantz Jun 2019

Unh Research Finds Uneven Distribution Of Retail Food And Food Support Sites Across The State, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


Mapping The Food Landscape In New Hampshire, Jess Carson Jun 2019

Mapping The Food Landscape In New Hampshire, Jess Carson

Carsey Publications

In this brief, Jess Carson explores the food landscape of New Hampshire, documenting where lower incomes and low population density might lead to food insecurity, and mapping the locations of various food sources. Much of the northern and western parts of the state have high proportions of low-income residents and low population density, compared with more southern parts of the state. In terms of food sources, retail locations roughly mirror the state’s population distribution, with many options throughout the southern tier of the state and concentration around the Interstate 93 corridor into Northern New Hampshire. While many food support sites, …


Meet Your Milk At Unh Open Barn June 29, Lori Tyler Gula Jun 2019

Meet Your Milk At Unh Open Barn June 29, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


A Place At The Table, Colleen Flaherty Jun 2019

A Place At The Table, Colleen Flaherty

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Haley Nolen: Understanding The Genetics Of Disease Resistance In Plants, Lori Tyler Gula May 2019

Haley Nolen: Understanding The Genetics Of Disease Resistance In Plants, Lori Tyler Gula

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Contribution Of Maize Polyamine And Amino Acid Metabolism Toward Resistance Against Aspergillus Flavus Infection And Aflatoxin Production., Rajtilak Majumdar, Rakesh Minocha, Matthew D. Lebar, Kanniah Rajasekaran, Stephanie Long, Carol H. Carter-Wientjes, Subhash C. Minocha, Jeffrey W. Cary May 2019

Contribution Of Maize Polyamine And Amino Acid Metabolism Toward Resistance Against Aspergillus Flavus Infection And Aflatoxin Production., Rajtilak Majumdar, Rakesh Minocha, Matthew D. Lebar, Kanniah Rajasekaran, Stephanie Long, Carol H. Carter-Wientjes, Subhash C. Minocha, Jeffrey W. Cary

Faculty Publications

Polyamines (PAs) are ubiquitous polycations found in plants and other organisms that are essential for growth, development, and resistance against abiotic and biotic stresses. The role of PAs in plant disease resistance depends on the relative abundance of higher PAs [spermidine (Spd), spermine (Spm)] vs. the diamine putrescine (Put) and PA catabolism. With respect to the pathogen, PAs are required to achieve successful pathogenesis of the host. Maize is an important food and feed crop, which is highly susceptible to Aspergillus flavus infection. Upon infection, the fungus produces carcinogenic aflatoxins and numerous other toxic secondary metabolites that adversely affect human …


Increasing Unh’S Impact, Beth Potier May 2019

Increasing Unh’S Impact, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 27 (May 2, 2019), The New Hampshire May 2019

The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 27 (May 2, 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.


Effects Of Land Use On Wild Bee Functional Diversity, Katherine Akemi Odanaka May 2019

Effects Of Land Use On Wild Bee Functional Diversity, Katherine Akemi Odanaka

Master's Theses and Capstones

Globally, wild bees are facing major declines due to many different factors. Land use is regarded as one of the most damaging of these factors as changes in land use can result in the destruction of critical wild bee habitat and foraging resources. Relative abundance and species richness have been used as standard methods for measuring the health of wild bee communities yet neither abundance nor richness are able to quantify how landscape change affects the traits found in members of the population. Phylogenetic methods are a novel tool that can measure community structure by examining how traits influence population …


Distribution, Presence, Ecology, And Harvest Dynamics Of The Chaga Fungus (Inonotus Obliquus) In The White Mountain National Forest, Rhys Thomas Brydon-Williams May 2019

Distribution, Presence, Ecology, And Harvest Dynamics Of The Chaga Fungus (Inonotus Obliquus) In The White Mountain National Forest, Rhys Thomas Brydon-Williams

Master's Theses and Capstones

Inonotus obliquus is a fungal infection of birch trees that produces a large sterile conk, known colloquially as Chaga. When dried, Chaga has medicinal value as an anti-mutagen and for gastro-peptic relief. With the growth of the natural remedies market over the last decade, Chaga has increasingly become the target of harvest in the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF). Forest managers of the WMNF have asked USFS Forest Health Protection staff whether special use permitting for Chaga as a Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) should be allowed. However, it is difficult to make management recommendations or best management practices for harvesting …


About The Authors May 2019

About The Authors

Comm-entary

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Closing Racial-Ethnic Gaps In Poverty: How Government Programs Compare, Marybeth J. Mattingly, Jess Carson Apr 2019

Closing Racial-Ethnic Gaps In Poverty: How Government Programs Compare, Marybeth J. Mattingly, Jess Carson

Carsey Publications

In this data snapshot, authors Marybeth Mattingly and Jessica Carson explore the role of government programs in alleviating poverty for people with different racial-ethnic identities. Because poverty rates among non-Hispanic whites are significantly lower than among other groups, programs with disparate effects by race can either widen or decrease racial-ethnic gaps in the poverty rate. The authors find that SNAP and the EITC play particularly important roles for non-white populations; however, Social Security maintains low poverty rates among whites, and exacerbates the poverty gap between white and non-white populations. Policymakers who want to advance low income populations and promote racial-ethnic …


The Poverty-Reducing Effect Of Five Key Government Programs In Rural And Urban America, Jess Carson, Marybeth Mattingly Apr 2019

The Poverty-Reducing Effect Of Five Key Government Programs In Rural And Urban America, Jess Carson, Marybeth Mattingly

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Jessica Carson and Marybeth Mattingly explore the extent to which rural and urban residents access five social programs—Social Security, disability benefits, federal and state cash assistance, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—and the effect of these programs individually and collectively in bringing family incomes closer to the poverty threshold. They report that these programs combined keep 11.5 percent of rural and 7.6 percent of urban residents out of poverty. Social Security is especially important: without it, poverty would increase by 4.4 percentage points in urban places and by 7.6 percentage points …


The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 24 (Apr. 11, 2019), The New Hampshire Apr 2019

The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 24 (Apr. 11, 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.


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

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.


The Heart Of A Horse: 3‐D Echocardiographic Analysis Of The Equine Aortic Valve, Amber Mcelhinney Apr 2019

The Heart Of A Horse: 3‐D Echocardiographic Analysis Of The Equine Aortic Valve, Amber Mcelhinney

Inquiry Journal 2019

Aortic regurgitation (AR) can be a normal function of aging or a disease in younger horses. Symptoms range from no outward signs to decreased performance to sudden cardiac arrest. My study used 3‐D echocardiography, ultrasound of the heart, to look at the equine aortic valve and assess it for AR severity. Three‐dimensional echocardiography records a pyramid of tissue rather than a 2‐D plane, showing cardiac structures difficult to visualize in standard 2‐D methods. In normal valves, only the edges of the cusps were visible, as the tissue is very thin when images were taken from the right, which is standard …


Effects Of A Typical Fast‐Food Meal On Arterial Stiffness In Young Adults, Erik J. Harrington Apr 2019

Effects Of A Typical Fast‐Food Meal On Arterial Stiffness In Young Adults, Erik J. Harrington

Inquiry Journal 2019

Fast food is a quick and easy alternative to preparing a meal and is a growing industry that is popular among all demographics and ages. Many younger individuals think that consuming this type of food frequently has no adverse health effects, because their bodies are able to metabolize the food quickly and without noticeable health‐related consequences. One way of assessing the stress that this type of food places on the body is through measurement of arterial stiffness. I conducted a study during the summer of 2018 in the Robert Kertzer Exercise Physiology Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire to …


From Farm To Fork: A Firsthand Investigation Into New Hampshire’S Food System, Alexandra Papadakis Apr 2019

From Farm To Fork: A Firsthand Investigation Into New Hampshire’S Food System, Alexandra Papadakis

Inquiry Journal 2019

Inspired by my first year studying sustainable agriculture and food systems at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), I sought to get a better handle on the food system by diving into a research project with my mentor, Dr. Joanne Burke, a professor in the Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems. Together, we planned a full summer investigating various aspects of New Hampshire’s food system, allowing me to better understand what goes on from farm to fork and to think through potential opportunities that exist to improve food system viability in our state. Using the food system framework of …


Unh Students Get A Jump On Summer, Brew Strawberry Frappe Ipa, Lori Tyler Gula Mar 2019

Unh Students Get A Jump On Summer, Brew Strawberry Frappe Ipa, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


Rewriting His Future: Terry Cromwell ‘79l Won’T Let Cancer Stifle Creativity, Jennifer Saunders Mar 2019

Rewriting His Future: Terry Cromwell ‘79l Won’T Let Cancer Stifle Creativity, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Faculty Honors: A Roundup Of Recent Awards, Erika Mantz Mar 2019

Faculty Honors: A Roundup Of Recent Awards, Erika Mantz

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Fruits Of Unh Breeding Research: Gardeners Can Choose From New Pumpkin, Squash And Melon Varieties, Lori Taylor Gula Mar 2019

Fruits Of Unh Breeding Research: Gardeners Can Choose From New Pumpkin, Squash And Melon Varieties, Lori Taylor Gula

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Fruits Of Unh Breeding Research: New Fruit, Vegetables Available For 2019, Lori Tyler Gula Mar 2019

Fruits Of Unh Breeding Research: New Fruit, Vegetables Available For 2019, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


Unh Brews ‘George Squashington’ Butternut Squash Beer, Lori Tyler Gula Mar 2019

Unh Brews ‘George Squashington’ Butternut Squash Beer, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


2019 State-Of-The-Science Of Dispersants And Dispersed Oil (Ddo) In U.S. Arctic Waters: Public Health And Food Safety, Coastal Response Research Center Mar 2019

2019 State-Of-The-Science Of Dispersants And Dispersed Oil (Ddo) In U.S. Arctic Waters: Public Health And Food Safety, Coastal Response Research Center

Coastal Response Research Center

Chemical dispersants were employed on an unprecedented scale during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and could be a response option should a large spill occur in Arctic waters. The use of dispersants in response to that spill raised concerns regarding the need for chemical dispersants, the fate of the oil and dispersants, and their potential impacts on human health and the environment. Concerns remain that would be more evident in the Arctic, where the remoteness and harsh environmental conditions would make a response to any oil spill very difficult. An outcome of a 2013 Arctic …


Connections That Count: Five First-Year Students Reflect On Enduring Impact Of Connect Stem, Sarah Schaier Feb 2019

Connections That Count: Five First-Year Students Reflect On Enduring Impact Of Connect Stem, Sarah Schaier

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.


Social Service Delivery In Two Rural Counties, Jess Carson, Marybeth Mattingly Feb 2019

Social Service Delivery In Two Rural Counties, Jess Carson, Marybeth Mattingly

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Jessica Carson and Marybeth Mattingly use interview and focus group data to explore how the characteristics of two rural New England counties influence the types of services available to residents and the ways those services are delivered. They report that the challenges of funding and geographic distance, along with disparate needs among community members, shape the ways that rural social service providers support their clients. Community characteristics, like a place’s history, population composition, income inequality, and degree of remoteness, influence how efficiently social service agencies work. In the two counties discussed in this brief, federal, state, …


Unh Organic Dairy Research Farm Strikes Gold For Milk Quality, Lori Tyler Gula Feb 2019

Unh Organic Dairy Research Farm Strikes Gold For Milk Quality, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


Identifying Barriers And Supports To Breastfeeding In The Workplace Experienced By Mothers In The New Hampshire Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children Utilizing The Total Worker Health Framework, Eric A. Lauer, Karla Armenti, Margaret Henning, Lissa Sirois Feb 2019

Identifying Barriers And Supports To Breastfeeding In The Workplace Experienced By Mothers In The New Hampshire Special Supplemental Nutrition Program For Women, Infants, And Children Utilizing The Total Worker Health Framework, Eric A. Lauer, Karla Armenti, Margaret Henning, Lissa Sirois

Institute on Disability

Variations in the barriers and contributors to breastfeeding across industries have not been well characterized for vulnerable populations such as mothers participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Our study used the Total Worker Health Framework to characterize workplace factors acting as barriers and/or contributors to breastfeeding among women participating in the New Hampshire WIC. Surveys were collected from WIC mothers (n = 682), which asked about employment, industry, and workplace accommodation and supports related to breastfeeding in the workplace. We found workplace policy factors supporting breastfeeding (i.e., having paid maternity leave, other maternity …


For The Love Of Horses: Unh Equine Helps State In Rescue Efforts, Jennifer Saunders Feb 2019

For The Love Of Horses: Unh Equine Helps State In Rescue Efforts, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.