Higher Learning

Prancing Paintings; the Romance of the Sleigh, a study of sleighs and sleighing in America by Nancy A. Lindley-Gauthier, program support assistant, UNH Advising and Career Center, is being published as a special issue of Carriage Driving World magazine. Lindley-Gauthier completed the work as part of her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. (02-09-06)

Jeff Schloss, UNH Cooperative Extension professor/specialist, water resources, received the Secchi Disk award by the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS). This award was presented at the Society's 25th annual meeting held recently in Madison, Wisconsin. The Secchi Disk award is the society’s highest honor, given to an individual member considered to have contributed the most to the achievement of NALMS’s goals and its mission within and outside of the organization. A member of NALMS since 1986, Schloss has served on and chaired several committees and was the Region I Director from 1999-2001. He served as NALMS President in 2002 and now heads up the Conference Advisory Committee. He also participated in the development of the NALMS research project on remote sensing techniques. Schloss holds a joint appointment at UNH as an extension professor in the Department of Zoology, a Research Scientist with the UNH Center for Freshwater Biology and as a Water Resources Specialist with Cooperative Extension. Since 1986, he has been the coordinator of the New Hampshire Lakes Lay Monitoring Program, a volunteer lake and tributary monitoring program initiated in 1979. (12-14-05)

Annie Donahue, assistant professor and library director at UNH Manchester, was elected President of the New Hampshire Library Association (NHLA) in November 2005. As president of the NHLA, Donahue will be the chief executive officer of the association. The mission of the NHLA is to promote good library service from all types of libraries to all people of the state and to cooperate with other groups of similar interest. She has taught research and reference skills to students in academic libraries for nine years. Her research interests include the collaboration between teaching and library faculty, assessing student learning, and integrating information literacy within the curriculum. Donahue received a bachelor's in humanities from UNH (1994), a M.L.S. from Southern Connecticut State College (1996), and an A.L.M. with a concentration in celtic studies from Harvard University (2005). (12-02-05)

Two UNH Cooperative Extension staff recently received awards at the 2005 National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences annual session in Philadelphia. Carroll County Extension Educator Ann Hamilton received the Continued Excellence Award, which recognized Hamilton's strong educational leadership in family financial management and food safety. Christine Parshall, Extension Program associate, Food and Nutrition in Cheshire County, was a Para-Professional Award, Eastern Region finalist. She was recognized for teaching nutrition lessons in individual homes, small community groups and schools. (10-31-05)

A number of staff recently were awarded VPFA Wildcat Awards, which recognize outstanding service in their departments. The award winners were: Individual Award, Brenda Whitmore, project manager, Facilities Design and Construction; and Team Award,        Joe Poulin, Miao He, Nicole Cole and Marc Behan, all Information Technologists with CIS. In addition the staff of Candace Corvey, vice president for finance and administration, who makes the awards, conspired to present her with a surprise Wildcat Award, which touched her deeply. Corvey will retire from UNH at the end of 2005. (10-19-05)