Higher Learning
Oct. 10, 2003 Edition

Joseph B. Murdoch, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, is the author of “Illuminating Engineering, from Edison’s Lamp to the LED (Second Edition).” The book was published in August by Visions Communications in New York. This text and reference book is an extensive revision of the author’s 1985 book, and includes new and expanded coverage of vision, color, light sources, optics, lighting fixtures, daylighting, energy conservation and lighting economics. Murdoch is director of the UNH lighting program and continues to teach the basic lighting course each fall to engineering technology students.

Andrew Boysen, assistant professor of music, and Lori Dobbins, assistant professor of music, have received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award. The awards are granted by an independent panel and are based upon the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog of original compositions, as well as recent performances.

William Conk, interim director of Housing and coordinator of UNH Emergency Planning, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Doctor’s Without Borders. Doctors Without Borders delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation.

Judith Bush, UNH Cooperative Extension educator, recently received the New Professional Award from the International Community Development Society. The award recognizes a Community Development Society member for superior contribution to the field of community development.

Bud B. Khleif, professor emeritus of sociology, gave two lectures on ethnicity and immigration at a summer institute for New Hampshire high school teachers sponsored by the World Affairs Council of NH. He recently presented a paper on compulsory systems of education in various Western countries and their relation to the job market at the University of the Middle East summer institute. He made a presentation on globalization and the sociology of multiculturalism, and presented a paper and chaired a session on “Paradigm Shifts and the Uses of Sociology” at the 11th International Conference on Thinking held recently. He has been elected to the board of directors of the 12th International Conference on Thinking.

George Romoser, professor emeritus of political science and the Technology, Society and Values Program, chaired a panel on “Relation of Cultural and Political Themes in Exile Writings of the Thirties and Forties” at the International Conference on The Alchemy of Exile: Creative Responses to Expulsion From Nazi-dominated Europe. The conference was held at the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies at the University of Kansas.

Wendell P. Davis, a senior veterinary pathologist in the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at UNH, recently attended the Third Biennial Foreign Animal Disease Training Course held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was presented by the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine in collaboration with the USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Experts from around the world presented in-depth discussions of the recognition, diagnosis and control of foreign animal diseases that threaten livestock in the United States and the rest of the Americas.