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UNH Presents NewEngland Premiere Of“columbinus”

UNH’s Theatre Programpresented the New Englandpremiere of “columbinus” thisfall. The production, which wascritically acclaimed throughoutthe region, focused on the April1999 massacre at ColumbineHigh School in Littleton,Colorado. The play weavestogether excerpts fromdiscussions with parents,survivors and communityleaders in Littleton, as well asdiaries and home-video footageto bring to light the dark recessesof American adolescence.Directed by award-winningactor and playwright RobertBoles, head of the UNH Theatre,the play probes the psychologicalwarfare of alienation, hostility,and social pressure that occursin high schools throughoutAmerica. Talkbacks lead byfaculty and staff followed eachperformance.

University’s MagnetSchool Plans Fall 2008Opening

The city of New Haven recentlyreceived a federal grant to helpfoster the University of NewHaven's Science and EngineeringUniversity Magnet School, a$59 million state-funded facility.Work continues on identifyingcurriculum specifics anda location for the sixth-through twelfth-grade school,which willeventually be builtadjacent to thecampus. The magnetschool’s sixth-gradeclass will begin in fall2008. Additional gradeswill be phased in annually.

Advanced magnet high schoolstudents will eventually havean opportunity to enroll inthe University’s introductoryscience, math, and engineeringcourses. Humanities coursesmay also be offered to them.

Mummies AidDNA Research

Thanks to a few 800-year-oldmummies from Mongolia,Dr. Heather Coyle and threeforensic science graduatestudents have developed a newmethod for preparing skeletalremains for DNA extraction.Their findings may haveimplications for forensicscientists around the globe.

“In the U.S. alone, the remainsof 40,000 missing personsare stored in various medicalexaminers’ offices,” saysDr. Coyle, an assistant professorof Forensic Science at UNH.“If we can extract DNA througha new process, the possibilitiescould be tremendous. It raisesthe question of how farback in time we can stretchcriminal justice.”

Obtaining DNA is often a crucialstep in identifying humanremains. DNA extraction isnever a simple process, and issometimes impossible withbones and tissue that have beenlong buried. But Dr. Coyle andher students have discoveredthat baking bones can sometimesaid in DNA extraction.

The team presented its findingsat the annual meeting of theNortheastern Association ofForensic Scientists in New York.In February, it will presentthose findings to the AmericanAcademy of Forensic Sciencein Washington, D.C.

BeckermanCenter IsNow Open

The $15.5 million David A. Beckerman

Recreation Center has opened to widespread

acclaim, its gleaming interior visible from

the Boston Post Road through floor-to-ceiling glass

windows. The Center features state-of-the-art

exercise equipment, a gymnasium with courts

for sports including basketball, rollerblading,

roller hockey, volleyball and indoor soccer, and

an illuminated glass-enclosed running track.

There’s more: a fitness center; a multi-purpose

room for a variety of activities including yoga,

step aerobics and Pilates; and racquetball courts;

along with lounges and changing rooms.

A juice bar adds a healthy option for members.

The facility, named for UNH alumnus David A.

Beckerman ’66, will be the location for the

University’s 25th Annual Alumni Scholarship Ball

on April 12, 2008.

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Students Zack Rosen and Keri Comeroski viewthe construction of the Beckerman Center

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Law School FeasibilityUnder Review

The University has embarkedon a feasibility study to establisha law school. UNH recentlycreated a vision for a lawschool that was reviewedby and received high marksfrom deans of law schoolsthroughout the country,including Drexel Universityin Pennsylvania and ElonUniversity in North Carolina.

“The experts with whomwe consulted agreed that itwas certainly appropriate fora university with such strongcriminal justice and forensicscience programs to considerthis,” says University PresidentSteven H. Kaplan.“One ofthe University's four strategicdirections also calls for UNH tostrengthen its arts and sciencesprograms. Creating a law schoolwould certainly fit that goal.”

Each year, about 40 UNHstudents go on to law schoolfollowing graduation.“We wantto offer those students a superboption by considering thecreation of a University of NewHaven law school,” Kaplan said.“This effort would join with anumber of other initiatives thatwe are aggressively pursuingin our effort to become oneof the strongest comprehensiveuniversities in the Northeast.”(See related story, page 14.)

Faculty Artists DisplayTheir Work

The 2007 Visual Art FacultyExhibition, which included theworks of 11 Art, Graphic Designand Interior Design Programfaculty members, spotlighteddrawing, painting, photography,video, mixed media and design.Faculty participating in theNovember exhibit are activelyengaged in art and designpractices and addresscontemporary issues intheir areas of expertise.They included Joseph Smolinski,John Arabolos, StephenGrossman, Erika Van Natta,Rolandas Kiaulevicius,Karen Dow, Jack Tom,Willard Lustenader,Todd Jokl, Richard Roseand Denis Ouimette.

For Bartels Fellow,Humble Beginnings YieldImpressive Result

William G. Crutchfield, founderof Crutchfield Corp., shareda compelling story Nov. 8 ofobstacles overcome and successescelebrated as part of the Bartelslecture,“Being an Entrepreneurfor All the Right Reasons.”

Crutchfield, the Fall 2007Bartels Fellow, spoke as partof the Bartels Lecture Series toa standing-room-only crowdin Dodds Theatre. He told ofstarting Crutchfield Corp. in hismother’s basement with only$1,000, and building it intoone of the nation’s top Internetconsumer electronics retailerswith sales of about $300 millionby focusing on customer serviceand quality.

The Bartels Fellowship wasestablished in 1989 at UNHthrough the generosity ofHenry E. and Nancy H.Bartels. The Fellowship bringsindividuals of national statureand prominence in the fieldsof business or public serviceto the UNH campus, with theprimary goal of broadeningthe perspectives of the campuscommunity in these areas.Bartels Fellows visit classes,hold open discussions anddeliver a formal address tothe University.

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President Heads College OrganizationPresident Steven H. Kaplan became chairman of the board of theConnecticut Conference of Independent Colleges July 1, a two-yearappointment. He will chair two board meetings per year and threeexecutive committee meetings, and will consult with the presidentof the CCIC, Judith Greiman, on CCIC initiatives. The presidents ofthe CCIC's 17 member colleges serve on the board.

Gaboury Named to Human TraffickingCouncil, Receives MADD AwardProfessor and Chair of the Department of Criminal JusticeDr. Mario Gaboury has been appointed to the ConnecticutTrafficking in Persons Council. Gaboury and fellow Councilmembers will identify criteria for providing services to traffickingvictims and consult with government and non-governmentorganizations in developing recommendations to strengthen stateand local efforts to prevent trafficking, protect and assist victims,and prosecute traffickers. Gaboury was also recently honoredwith the Victim Assistance Award by Mothers Against DrunkDriving (MADD) Connecticut.

Fall LecturesGender Distinctions in MarketingDr. Cheng Lu “Charlie”Wang, UNH associate professor of Marketingand International Business: “Sad Emotional Appeal in Public ServicesAdvertising: The Moderating Effects of Gender.”

Diversity in EngineeringMike Ambrose ’84 B.S., general manager of Precision MachinedComponents at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford: “Skills Diversity Role inthe Field of Manufacturing Engineering.”

Business in India and ChinaDr. Usha C.V. Haley, UNH professor of International Business anddirector of the Global Business Center, at the Hartford Club: “ChargingElephant, Soaring Dragon: Business Environments and BusinessStrategies for India and China.”

Travel AnxietyDr. Donald C. Smith,UNH professor andpast chair of the Collegeof Business: “Pulling thePlug on Culture Shock:A Seven-Step Plan for ManagingTravel Anxiety.”

Mixing Businessand PoliticsJohn Picard ’87 B.S.,West Haven Mayor andUNH alumnus: “Governmentand Business: Creating a Positive Economic Environment.”

New Technologies for Solving CrimesDr. Henry C. Lee, UNH professor and world-renowned criminologist,Jonathan Benedict Connecticut State’s Attorney, and retired FBISupervisory Special Agent Arthur Meister: “How New TechnologiesAre Used in Forensic Science to Solve High Profile, Complex Crimes.”

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(Above top) Ambassador Robert Guba Aisi, Permanent Mission ofPapua New Guinea to the United Nations, is pictured with his wife,Susan, right. From left are Phyllis Seton and University President StevenH. Kaplan. (Bottom) Graduate student Jovonne Dempster, left, andundergraduate Taylor Bethoney discuss the works in the Art of PapuaNew Guinea exhibit at a reception in Dodds Hall Atrium in November

Papua New GuineaAmbassador Speaks atArt Opening

Ambassador Robert Guba Aisi,Permanent Mission of PapuaNew Guinea to the UnitedNations, spoke at a Novemberreception for the exhibit “Art ofPapua New Guinea” featuringthe collection of Fenmore andPhyllis Seton.

A permanent installation inthe Atrium of Dodds Hall,the Seton Collection is a giftfrom the Setons, longtime artcollectors and philanthropists.Fenn Seton, who is deceased,served on the University’s Board

of Governors and was activein a variety of ways at UNH.Phyllis Seton continues heraffiliation with the University,and was present at the openingof the exhibit.

“It’s wonderful,” she said.“Beautifully done.” The exhibitconsists of 23 objects theSetons collected during theirtravels along the Sepik Riverin Papua New Guinea,including an Orator Chair,double suspension hooks andnumerous masks.

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Legacy,” an exhibit detailing thestory of the effort to create theNew Haven Holocaust Memorial,the first Holocaust Memorialto be built on public land.

“Freedom to me is not aconcept,” he told the crowd.“It is a bittersweet realitythat rests in the corners ofmy brain.”

Famed Alvin Ailey Dancer,Instructor is UNHArtist-in-Residence

Theresa Howard, acclaimeddancer and instructor at theAlvin Ailey American DanceTheater in New York City, wasUNH’s artist-in-residence inNovember. Howard, who is also

UNH graduate student AmandaSilva reviews the “Memory& Legacy” exhibit on campus,which details the story of theeffort to create the New HavenHolocaust Memorial

The Class of 2011 posesfor posterity duringWelcome Week in September

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Wise Words Spring fromMemories of Horror

Holocaust survivor and UNHgraduate Martin Schiller recentlyspoke on campus regardingthe many freedoms available tohim, and the responsibility thataccompanies those freedoms.That responsibility includeskeeping alive the memory of

the six million who died at thehands of the Nazis duringWorld War II.

Schiller, 74, the author of“Bread, Butter and Sugar:A Boy’s Journey Throughthe Holocaust and PostwarEurope,” spoke at UNH duringa reception for “Memory &

a former dancer with theHarlem Dance Company, heldworkshops for UNH dancestudents and area middle schoolstudents, met with classes andheld a workshop on choosinga career in the arts.

Howard has modeled ininternational fashion magazinesand is also a writer whosework has appeared in variousmagazines. She is currentlywriting her first work of fiction.

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FACULTY PROFILE

A Dogged Investigator,An Insightful Teacher

Ted Bundy was charismatic, handsome and murderous. A serialkiller who held the country in a frightened thrall in the 1970s,Bundy was identified by a tenacious young Washington

detective, the son of a Washington state deputy sheriff.

Robert Keppel was his name, and one week into his job as ahomicide detective in Washington, he drew a missing person’scase that eventually was linked to Bundy. Soon, murdered womenbegan turning up in larger numbers, and the list of suspects grewlarger still.

Keppel devised a computer program that narrowed 3,500suspects to 25. Ted Bundy was one of them. Then the phone rang.It was the Salt Lake City, Utah sheriff’s office. They had identifieda prowler caught in a local neighborhood as Bundy.

Before Bundy’s killings finally ended, he had taken the lives ofat least 30 women, and possibly far more. He died in the electricchair, but not before Keppel interviewed him for help with thenotorious Green River Killer, who had been responsible for thedeaths of at least 50 prostitutes and teenage runaways, primarilyin Washington state.

“Technically he wasn’t any help in actually naming theGreen River Killer and catching him,” Keppel said. “But inunderstanding the Green River Killer, he was a big help.”

From their conversations came Keppel’s mass-market book,“The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt the Green River Killer”(Pocket Books, 2004).

Keppel’s intensive study of –and long experience with – serialkillers led him away from a second career moonlighting as a storedetective or a corporate security guard and into the world ofeducation. With his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the Universityof Washington, Keppel, associate professor of Criminal Justiceat UNH, has taught at Seattle University, a private Jesuit schoolin Seattle, and has been cultivated by universities with themost esteemed Criminal Justice programs in the nation.He is now at work on a book about serial violence.

“My whole life is consumed with how toinvestigate killers and how to catch them,”he said. “Writing and teaching are ways tohelp others investigate them. I teach thesolvability of murder cases, how to studythe killers, how successful investigationsproceeded and how the killers werecaught. With the book, I am trying tomake the reader understand how casesare connected so they can use thatto their advantage to catchthe killer.”

UNH Associate Professor Dr. RobertKeppel, a specialist in serial killers,is at work on a book about serial violence

“My whole life isconsumed with howto investigate killers,and how tocatch them.”

–Robert Keppel, Ph.D.

In the NewsOutsourcing to PeruLA Business Journal, September 3: Dr. Usha Haley, UNH professorof International Business and director of the Global BusinessCenter, quoted.

Chinese Fast Food IndustryForbes, September 17: Dr. George Haley, UNH professor of Marketingand director of the Center for International Industry Competitiveness,commented.

Law School Feasibility at UNHNew Haven Register, September 21.Connecticut Post, September 22.Business New Haven and Business Times, October 1.Hartford Courant, October 2.

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ActWTIC’s Colin McEnroe radio program, October 2: Dr. Donna Morris,assistant professor and director of the Legal Studies Program, quoted.

UNH Magnet School Moves AheadNew Haven Register and WNPR, October 8.

China's Aircraft Industry Gets Off the GroundTime, October 11: Dr. George Haley, UNH professor of Marketingand director of the Center for International Industry Competitiveness,commented.

Professors Not Fans of AthleticsMSNBC.com, October 15:Allen Sack, UNH professor and directorof the Institute for Sport Management at UNH, quoted.

China’s Aircraft Industry Gets Off the GroundTime Asia, October 22: George Haley, UNH professor of Marketingand director of the Center for International Industry Competitiveness,commented.

Freshman Year AbroadInside Higher Ed, October 23: Dennis Nostrand, UNH vice presidentfor Enrollment Management, quoted.

DNA Research on MummiesTrentonian, October 27: Dr. Heather Coyle, UNH assistant professorof Forensic Science, commented.

New Haven Register, October 28: Dr.Albert B. Harper, directorof the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science, quoted.

WFSB TV Channel 3 (CBS), October 30: Dr. Heather Coyle commented.

WVIT Channel 30 (NBC),WTIC Channel 61 (Fox), October 31:Dr. Coyle commented.

National Program at RHAM Prepares Studentsfor a Future in EngineeringJournal Inquirer, October 29: High school students earn credit at UNH.

California FiresNewsweek, October 29, LA Daily News, November 2Bruce Varga, UNH fire and arson investigation instructor, quoted.

Home Mortgage CrisisCongressional Quarterly Researcher, November 2: Dr. Robert Rainish,UNH professor of Economics and Finance, commented.

Game Over: Is New Haven Just Not a Sports Town?New Haven Register, November 4:Allen Sack, director of the Institutefor Sport Management at UNH, commented.

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UNH student Jordan Moser ’10, an acoustic singer andsongwriter, performs on Broadway at College Night inNew Haven in October

Dental Students TreatHondurans, South DakotaIndians

UNH dental hygiene studentsspread their message of oralhealth this year, workingwith Honduran islanders andresidents of a South DakotaIndian reservation as part ofservice-learning internships.

Jessica Reder ’07, Janet Dexter’08, Alyssa Natalino ’08, andMarvalene Brooks ’08 treatedmore than 65 islanders thissummer in Roaton, Honduras.They provided oral-hygieneand nutritional education toabout 600 private and publicschool-aged children includingorphaned children, and also

gave dental screenings indaycare facilities. Beforeleaving West Haven, the teamcollected clothing and sportingequipment, more than $600 indental supplies and monetarydonations of more than $3,000.

This fall, three UNH-licensedhygiene baccalaureate studentstraveled to the Lakota IndianReservation in South Dakota.There, they treated more than250 residents at a dental clinic.Faculty member CarolynPatenaude accompanied thestudents, whose service-learningtrip was coordinated withthe Hawk Wing organizationof Connecticut.

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Internships Authority to SpeakMichael True, manager of a national internship listserv, director of theMessiah College Internship Office: “Creating Quality Internships: BestPractices for Business, Government and Non-Profit Organizations.”

Emerging International MarketsCostas Lake, Director, International Affairs, State of Connecticut,Department of Economic and Community Development; Usha Haley,UNH professor of International Business and director of the GlobalBusiness Center, and George Haley, UNH professor of Marketingand director of the Center for International Industry Competitiveness:“Entering the New Emerging Markets: International Market Evaluationfor Management.”

Freshman Study AbroadDennis Nostrand, UNH’s vice president for Enrollment Management,at the annual conference of the National Association for CollegeAdmission Counseling in Austin, Texas: “International Study forFirst-Year Students.”

Recognizing Abusive BehaviorLeila Dutton, UNH assistant professor in The Henry C. Lee Collegeof Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences: “Relationship Red Flags:Recognizing and Controlling Abusive Behavior.”

Politics and Business in ChinaDr. Ben Judd, UNH professor and chair of theDepartment of Communication and Marketing:“The Political Process of Doing Business in China.”

Russia and the LawJonathan Silbert, Connecticut Superior Courtjudge, and three legal experts from Pskov,Russia: “The American and Russian systemsof law.”

Careers in the ArtsTheresa Howard, acclaimed dancer and an instructor at the Alvin AileyDance American Dance Theater in Manhattan: “Careers in the arts.”

Lobsters Dying in the SoundDr. Carmela Cuomo, UNH associate professor of Biology andEnvironmental Science, former science director at the Atlantic

States Marine Fisheries Commission:“Lobster Die-Off in Long Island

Sound.”

Digital and Web MarketingPeter Franz, award-winning marketer, founder and presidentof Response, LLC, of New Haven and a UNH alumnus,and Carolyn Walker, vice president of ClientServices at Response, LLC: “Digital andWeb 2.0 Marketing.”

GlobalizationNayan Chanda, author of thecritically acclaimed “Bound Together:How Traders, Preachers,Adventurers,and Warriors Shaped Globalization”(Yale University Press,April 2007):“Who Is Behind Globalization andIs It a Threat?”

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Top Provider of English-as-a-Second LanguageContracts with UNH

The University has reunitedwith one of the world’spre-eminent providers ofEnglish-as-a-second-languageservices, ELS, to provide servicesfor international studentswho want to improve theirEnglish-language skills.

“This will improve our abilityto attract students who donot yet have the proficiencyin English that they need tosucceed,” says Joe Spellman,the University’s director ofInternational Admissions.

ELS, which has a superbinternational reputation asa provider of English-as-a-

second-language instruction,has recently opened severalnew centers including one inShanghai. Spellman visited theShanghai Center Oct. 31.

ELS will be housed at EchlinHall, and will offer its firston-campus class in fall 2008.It will coordinate its operationsthrough the UniversityCollege. Art Goon, deanof University College, is elatedat the possibilities inherent inthe partnership.

“This opens the door toexpanding our internationalrecruitment, gives us a greaterinternational presence, andprovides greater visibility to ourundergraduate and graduateprograms,” he says.“It’s terrificthat we have them back.”

Director of International Admissions Joe Spellman, right,with Dan Plaut of the ELS Center in Shanghai

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