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A Nurse-Led, School-Based Obesity Improvement And Prevention Program: Physical Activity, Nutrition, And Psychological Interventions In Second-Grade Students, Kaitlyn Williams

M. S. in Nursing Health Care Leadership

Childhood obesity is a national healthcare crisis. Obese children are at increased risk for medical, behavioral, emotional, and psychological complications. This school-based program will educate second-grade students about adopting healthier habits. An educational program was developed to support the students with three specific components: physical activity, nutrition, and psychological counseling, capitalizing on positive, trusting relationships between the teachers, school nurse, and students. The goal is to help develop healthier habits by increasing physical activity, providing guidance for better nutrition, and decrease BMI. Parents will be supported and provided tools for the ability to sustain this in the home. After completion …

The Development Of A Pilot Program For A Standardized New Graduate Nurse Orientation Process To Support The Transition To Practice During Covid-19, Jennifer Low

M. S. in Nursing Health Care Leadership

New graduate nurses represent ten percent of the current nursing workforce and with the nursing shortage, retention of these nurses is key for sustaining and growing the labor pool. Furthermore, with almost twenty-five percent of new nurses leaving their positions within two years of starting, we must address the successful transition to practice. The move from student to graduate nurse can be stressful and difficult, but when combined with pandemic with reduced or no hands-on clinical experiences during their last year of school, there is greater pressure for organizations to provide orientation that addresses the specific needs of these new …

Human Resource Business Partner Model For Cheshire Medical Center, Sabrina Adams

M.S. in Health Care Management

The following project was a study of the potential implementation of a Human Resource Business Partner position being added to the Cheshire Medical Center Human Resource team. The reason for this study was to evaluate the need a Human Resource Business Partner as well a way to shift the workload that the department currently supports. The methods used for this project was a series of deliverables that included an analyzation of the job description, leadership training with handouts, and a PowerPoint presentation to be presented to the Human Resource Team and hospital leadership. The project concluded that the use of …

Subjective Communication: A New Training Method, William Plaisted

M.S. in Health Care Management

This project centralizes around the stigma of communicating in the healthcare system, and using policies and procedures as the foundation, when it should be the employees who hold them up. Having worked in healthcare for nearly twelve years, an issue I have always wanted to address is the way we communicate to staff. This translates into training them in a new way as well. While it is important to have rules and protocols are clear as possible, we as leaders must understand that people come from different culture, backgrounds, experiences, generations, etc. So, we need to keep that in mind …

Workplace Compliance With Osha And Cdc Guidelines During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study, Andrew Perry

M.S. in Health Care Management

The project is a case report to explore the extent employers are following Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines, along with Center for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines to ensure the safety of their employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. The topic was chosen after observing how businesses did not all appear to be doing the same steps to ensure employee safety. The subject was a production company in the Manchester, NH area. The methods used are the guidelines of Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Center for Disease Control and Prevention and provide a comparison to see how close the …

More Kids, Brighter Futures: Expanding The Union Street Clubhouse To Meet The Needs Of The Community, Michael St. Onge

M. S. in Project Management

To address the increased need and demand for services offered by the Boys & Girls Club of Manchester, a campaign called More Kids, Brighter Futures was started. This project expanded the existing facility at 555 Union Street by constructing a 4,800 square foot addition. This expansion included a multipurpose activity room, a play room, an office, a quiet/study area, and additional restrooms. Besides solving an immediate need in the community, this project also aligns with the Club’s mission: To reach out to all youth, especially those who need us most, inspiring them to realize their full potential as productive, responsible …

City-Wide Emergency Radio System Upgrade, Karen Smith

M. S. in Project Management

Every city wants and needs a functional, reliable radio system that allows for interoperability across multiple departments. Improved radio communication will help with emergency responders, but also school officials, water department, traffic control. Throughout the course of an extreme event, it can be crucial that these resources have rapid and immediate communication channels. Implementing an upgraded radio system that allows for redundancy, interoperability, and scalability for performance updates over many years to come will benefit the departments as well as citizens and visitors to the area. Our consulting firm was tasked with researching the needs of the city, identifying the …

Our Happily Ever After, Matthew Joyal

M. S. in Project Management

Event planning, in many ways, is the same as any other project. Both have a valuable team, lists of deadlines, road bumps, and the overwhelming feeling of accomplishment when it is all over. One of the biggest events to plan is a wedding. Although every type of wedding is unique in its own way, the average wedding takes approximately twelve to eighteen months to plan. This can be a huge undertaking for many individuals who still keep to their regular schedules. This is where event planners come in. An event or wedding planner is a professional who assists with the …

Encompass, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2021), College Of Liberal Arts, University Of New Hampshire

Encompass Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Convergence: Eos News And Updates, April 2021, Unh Institute For The Study Of Earth, Oceans And Space

Convergence: EOS News and Updates

No abstract provided.

Student Leadership Development: Assessing The Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, David Mckillop

M.S. in Leadership

The purpose of this research is to provide an understanding of how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the development of student leaders within institutions of higher education. While we understand on a surface level the impact the pandemic has had on overall social, economic, and interpersonal commonalities, it is important to investigate how these disruptions impact the future of our society. Student leadership development is essential in ensuring that society be left in the hands of leaders who are confident in their abilities. Key concepts related to this study include student leadership development pre- and during the pandemic; how those …

Remote Work: Building A Framework For Success, Charmane Sablock

M.S. in Leadership

The recent COVID19 pandemic has turned the word remote work into a business buzz phrase. While some businesses embraced remote work before the pandemic, many organizations needed to make quick decisions implementing a remote workforce as the pandemic unfolded and required them to send employees home to work during Stay at Home orders to insure employee safety through social distancing. This research is focused on both the advantages and disadvantages of implementing a remote work model within an organization. While there are studies reporting aspects of employee performance that improved, there were also challenges noted with performance of individuals and …

2021 Inquiry Journal: Table Of Contents, Brigid C. Casellini

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

No abstract provided.

Nan Yi: Professor Of Chemical Engineering, Erin Trainer

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

Nan Yi is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. Below is a correspondence with Dr. Yi about his own research and mentoring experiences with undergraduate students.

2021 Inquiry Journal: Abstracts, Brigid C. Casellini

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

No abstract provided.

Foundational Leadership: Building Our Non-Commissioned Officers, Brandt Hudson

M.S. in Leadership

This research is a look into the leadership training model provided to Junior Enlisted Marines. It reviews the eight aspects of Leadership the Marine Corps requires its leader to know, and it expects senior leaders to teach. In a review of Marine Corps publications, books on great leaders, after-action of past battles, a survey of junior leaders, and a review into current business organizations' leadership practice. A strong argument can be made for the potential improvement to the model the Marine Corps uses.

A video recording of this presentation is available here.

Leadership Initiatives For Trio Student Support Services Eligible Participants, Kyle Somma

M.S. in Leadership

This research will examine the best practices for TRIO Student Support Services professionals to deliver and support TRIO Student Support Services participants in their leadership development. TRIO Student Support Services participants come to higher education institutes with barriers that inhibit their academic and leadership development. Through partnerships with TRIO Student Support Services professionals, eligible students can build leadership development resulting in a more marketable job applicant post-graduation. A leadership development toolkit will be provided to guide TRIO Student Support Services professionals in their execution of leadership initiatives.

A video recording of this presentation is available here.

Resistance To Change: Why Does It Happen?, Stephanie Lee

M.S. in Leadership

Change in an organization is paramount to its survival. The need for organizations to change and adapt to the needs of their current environment are known to be a necessity of success but are often met with resistance within the organization. This research aims to analyze current information on change resistance and why it occurs. Along with a literature analysis, a survey was conducted to compare information found in literature to real accounts of people's resistance to change and what they feel they need for successful change within their organization. by Understanding people's reasons for resistance organizations can begin to …

Understanding Interpersonal Trust And Task-Unrelated Thought Through Computer-Mediated Health Conversations, Tyler Stetson

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic caused many healthcare professionals to transition to digital telehealth platforms for patient visits, making interpersonal trust more difficult to achieve. My study examined the relationship between task-unrelated thought (TUT), likability, and interpersonal trust in medically related conversations. Two questions were asked for this study: (1) Is the level of trust and likability between two chat participants related to the frequency of TUT during computer mediated conversation? and (2) What features of language are associated with TUT, trust, and likability in a computer-mediated telehealth environment? Participants chatted online via an instant message platform about personal remedies for the …

Emotional Intelligence: The Key To Effective Leadership, Maureen Murdock

M.S. in Leadership

The purpose of this research is to highlight the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership. Emotional Intelligence is focused awareness of one’s own emotional state and of the emotional signal’s others are exhibiting in the fluid situation of an interaction. Remaining aware of the emotional state of others and oneself during a contentious exchange enables one to navigate that particular situation effectively. The highest form of interaction that people can experience is a mutual feeling of understanding and a state of mutual understanding is most rapidly reached one can remain aware of emotional intelligence dynamics. The research will analyze the …

Occupational Therapy Via Telehealth For Families Raising Children With Autism, Carli Rita

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

Family health is an emerging practice area in occupational therapy that has potential to improve overall family health and participation in daily activities. Families raising children with autism may experience challenges that families raising typically developing children may not experience, and occupational therapy has been shown to improve both child and family outcomes. This study seeks to determine the preliminary effectiveness of the Healthy Families Flourish Program, a ten-session occupational therapy intervention program delivered via telehealth to support families raising school-aged children with autism. Four New Hampshire families were recruited for participation in this study. Weekly sessions took place and …

Nuclear Physics Applications Through The Lens Of Undergraduate Research, Tristan Anderson

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

Whether you know it or not, nuclear-based technologies are pervasive in our daily lives. Despite the field's politicized history, nuclear physics is a great thing—and its non-weaponized applications extend harmlessly and helpfully beyond the walls of a laboratory. In this commentary, I give an overview of a subfield in nuclear physics that investigates the role of nuclear spin within the nuclear medium. I then branch into a discussion of some of my research on spin that I have done in the University of New Hampshire's Polarized Target Group and relate my work's application to medical technologies (external to UNH). From …

Blue Print, No. 2, Unh Museum Of Art

Blue Print

No abstract provided.

Sexuality And Regional Dialects In Southern New Hampshire, Hayden Stinson

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

Social identity is complex and multifaceted. While census-like data has an important place in sociological research, everyone interacts with their social categorization uniquely. To bring this into focus in the field of linguistics, I conducted research on the relationship between regional dialects and gay identity. Using data from interviews that I conducted with two twenty-two-year-old gay men from southern New Hampshire, I followed in a line of research that focuses on the performative nature of social identity. I reached two particularly interesting findings. First, the participants used a “gayer-sounding” /s/ sound in a reading task than in a question-and-answer task. …

Jill Thorson: Professor Of Communication Sciences And Disorders, Erin Trainer

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

Jill Thorson is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of New Hampshire. Below is a correspondence with Dr. Thorson about her own research and her mentoring experiences with undergraduate students.

Becoming A Researcher During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Samuel Mercer

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about abrupt change to traditional research approaches for undergraduate research. As a first-year undergraduate researcher who worked through the University of New Hampshire Innovation Scholars Program and through the Research Experience and Apprenticeship Program (REAP) for my projects Wireless Data Processing System for IoT-Enabled Devices and the Direct Conversion of Methane to Methanol Over Gold Catalysts, I learned how to adapt myself to optimize my time spent away from the physical laboratory. By setting up my own home equipment and by using the virtual medium, I conversed with research groups, tinkered with homemade projects prototypes, and …

Write Free Or Die: Vol. 07, No. 02, Unh Writing Programs

Writing Program Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Learning To Code Human Behavior, Jennika Mannesto

Inquiry Journal Spring 2021

By participating in two research projects in the field of human development and family studies at the University of New Hampshire, I have gained lifelong observational skills that will be valuable in my future teaching career. Through the Mommy and Me project I have become proficient in using the Q-sort method to code observable behavior. Through Project Advancing Children’s Museum Engagement (Project ACME) I used videotaped interactions of families in a children’s museum to learn about the types of play children engaged in and how that related to gender. I created my own coding scheme for this project to code …

On The Stability Of Neon Cluster Ions – Evidence For Isomeric Structures, Siegfried Kollotzek, Stefan Bergmeister, Lukas Tiefenthaler, Simon Albertini, Elisabeth Gruber, Fabio Zappa, Paul Scheier, Olof Echt

Faculty Publications

We have adopted the newly developed technique of growing cationic clusters in size-to-charge selected helium nanodroplets (HNDs), with subsequent removal of helium in a collision cell, to record high-resolution mass spectra of Nen+. Growth in singly charged HNDs leads to mass spectra that feature the same anomalies in the cluster ion abundance as in previous work, namely maxima at n = 14, 21, 55/56, 75. Several other, weaker but statistically significant anomalies are observed at n = 9, 26, 29, 33, 35, 69, 82, 89. However, when neon clusters are grown in larger HNDs, which are likely to be multiply …

In Our Own Voices: Harshi Karedla '21, Kassidy Taylor

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.