Higher Learning

Paula DiNardo, coordinator and prelaw advisor of State and National Exchange Programs and The Washington Center Internships, has been selected to receive the national 2006 Liaison of the Year Award in recognition of her dedication and support of The Washington Center. The center cited DiNardo’s efforts to recruit, screen, monitor and debrief participating students, and her “wholehearted commitment to ensure access of qualified students to this significant life-changing opportunity.” DiNardo will receive the award April 10, in Washington, D.C.   (03-08-06)

Stacia Sower, COLSA professor and interim associate dean, delivered the prestigious Howard A. Bern Lecture at the annual Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference in Florida in January. Sower spoke about "Insight into the molecular evolution of gonadotropin and its receptor in the hormonal regulation of reproduction."  (02-22-06)

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)