“Rural Vermont seems an unlikely place to find a commercial printer dedicated to impeccable design and the craft of book making,” notes the introduction of a new exhibition in the Baker Library Main Hall, “but it was in Lunenburg that Roderick Stinehour ’50 established one of the finest commercial printing houses in America.”

The exhibition, “Designed and Printed at the Stinehour Press,” is the companion to a lecture that will be delivered by Boston book publisher David R. Godine ’66 on Thursday, April 11. Godine’s lecture, “A Printer’s Work: Rocky Stinehour and His Legacy,” is part of the Dartmouth Library’s Stephen Harvard lecture series, which honors the late Stephen Harvard ’70, a book designer, calligrapher, and illustrator who later collaborated with Adobe Systems to develop electronic fonts based on his typeface designs.

“The Stinehour Press is considered one of the most respected design and printing firms of the 20th century in America. Rocky Stinehour’s craft and creativity influenced and mentored a generation of designers, artists, and book producers,” says Dean of Libraries and Librarian of the College Jeffrey L. Horrell, who notes that the Dartmouth Library holds the extensive archives of the Stinehour Press.

“Rocky, himself mentored by Ray Nash and the Graphic Arts Workshop in Baker Library in the late 1940s, developed his skills and created elegant printed works on paper,” says Horrell. “This tradition continues in the Library’s Book Arts Program today. We are honored to have David Godine ’66, an extraordinary publisher in his own right, present this lecture in celebration of the talent and work of Rocky Stinehour.”

Godine is the founder and president of David R. Godine Inc., an independent publishing house that produces around 30 titles a year and has an active reprint program. A number of Godine’s books have become classics, including Mary Azarian’s A Farmer’s Alphabet; Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone; and Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, which together have sold close to half a million hardcover copies.

Godine’s lecture will be held at 4 p.m. in Baker Library’s 1902 Room. It is open to the public, and a reception will follow in Baker Main Hall. Prior to the lecture, there will be a 3 p.m. tour of the accompanying exhibit, led by its co-curators Jay Satterfield, special collection librarian, and Stephanie Wolff, the library’s assistant conservator and Book Arts Program instructor.

“The exhibit was a real pleasure to assemble,” says Satterfield. “It gave us a chance to reflect on the entire history of the press and pull out a narrative that we hope captures the spirit of Rocky’s life work.

“We hope that people will come away from the exhibit with an appreciation for the press and its history, but also with some researchable questions that might bring them back into the collections.”

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The innovation and dynamic contributions of women whose lives were changed by the transformation to coeducation at Dartmouth College in 1972 will be highlighted at the Greenways: Coming Home celebration over the weekend of April 5 to 7.

“Forty years later,” President Carol Folt says, “Dartmouth alumnae have made an impact on virtually every academic discipline and profession in this country and around the world, from award-winning writers, artists, and filmmakers to groundbreaking scientists, senators, businesswomen, and physicians.”

Many of these alumnae and their classmates will return to Hanover to gather for panels and lectures, to reconnect, to make new connections, and to celebrate the dynamic change coeducation brought to Dartmouth.

More than 500 people have confirmed attendance and the slate of presenters includes keynote addresses by Woman’s National Basketball Association President and Dartmouth Trustee Laurel Richie ’81, and comedian and author Rachel Dratch ’88. There will be more than a dozen panel discussions with titles such as, “The Road Less Traveled,” “Beyond the Glass Ceiling,” and “Dynamic Duos: Dartmouth Dads and Daughters.”

The billing as “a community celebration of coeducation” is apt, says Martha Johnson Beattie ’76, vice president for Alumni Relations, whose office is hosting the weekend along with the Office of the President.

“The phenomenon of coeducation happened to both men and women and the reality is that, because of this change, Dartmouth has become a much more vital institution in the world,” Beattie says.

Dratch, a former Saturday Night Live regular and author of the 2012 memoir, Girl Walks Into A Bar: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle, says she stays connected with her “Dartmouth pals,” and she plans to attend her 25th reunion this spring.

She says she is trying to strike a balance in her keynote address, entertaining the audience but also honoring the significance of the change coeducation brought to Dartmouth.

“People expect it to be funny but it deals with some serious, weighty topics, so I can’t just joke my way through the whole thing,” she says.

L. Kelcey Grimm ’96, is a former investment banker who gave it all up for “the road less traveled.” She eventually founded the Enkosini Conservation Trust, which manages the Lapolisa Wilderness in South Africa, and she is a director of the nonprofit Lion Foundation which supports conservation in South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana. She said Dartmouth helped empower her.

“Here I quickly learned that I had to be especially strong to be heard and respected,” she says. “The Greenways conference has re-emphasized to me how many cool, amazing, talented, successful women Dartmouth has as alumnae. I’m so proud to be part of this group of women, and I would have never chosen to go to college anywhere else.”

At the closing session on Sunday, Folt will moderate a panel featuring four prominent alumni, each a MacArthur Fellow. Participants include Annette Gordon-Reed ’81, professor of law at Harvard Law School and a Dartmouth trustee; Terry Plank ’85, professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University; John Rich ’80, professor and department chair of health management and policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health and a Dartmouth trustee; and artist Anna Schuleit, MALS ’05.

The event is open to alumni through registration. Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend the panel discussions and keynote speeches.

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Ayo Coly has taught Chinua Achebe‘s Things Fall Apart in all of her courses since she began as an associate professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth six years ago, and she has found that nearly every one of her students read the book in high school.

That is as clear a picture as she can give of the significance of the Nigerian author who came to be known as the father of African literature, and who had numerous ties to Dartmouth. Achebe died Thursday, March 21, 2013, in Boston. He was 82.

Although there is a rich literary history from Africa in both African and European languages, “we can say Achebe is the inventor of African literature because he made it known beyond the borders of Nigeria and beyond Africa,” Ayo says. “I would like to acknowledge the way Chinua Achebe appropriated and transformed the European genre of the novel and conformed it to convey his own culture, his own agenda, as a Nigerian, as an African.”

Achebe was in residence at Dartmouth in 1990 as a Montgomery Fellow. In 1972, under President John Kemeny, Dartmouth awarded Achebe the first of his many honorary degrees.

His son Chidi Achebe is a 1996 graduate of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (then Dartmouth Medical School). Chidi Achebe was one of the four recipients of Dartmouth’s Social Justice Award in 2012, for his work leading the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center in the Dorchester section of Boston. Chidi Achebe continues to regularly mentor medical students from Dartmouth in his practice as part of the Geisel School’s Urban Health Scholars program.

Chinua Achebe’s other novels include No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, and Anthills of the Savannah.

He received many awards, including the Nigerian National Trophy and the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction. He was founding editor of African Writers Series 1962-72, and was chairman and publisher of the journal, African Commentary.

Since September 2009, he had been a professor of Africana studies at Brown University. In addition to his writing career and his time as a Montgomery Fellow, Achebe served as a senior research fellow and a professor of English at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; pro-chancellor and chairman of council at Anambra State University of Technology, Enugu; foreign honorary fellow of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; and he lectured extensively at universities in Nigeria, Europe, and the United States.

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The Dartmouth College Board of Trustees has elected Mitchell Kurz ’73 as a new member of the Board following a nomination vote by Dartmouth’s alumni. He will join the Board on June 9, following Commencement ceremonies.

The Board of Trustees has ultimate responsibility for the financial, administrative, and academic affairs of the College.

Dartmouth alumni also chose new officers and executive committee members for the Association of Alumni. Voting took place both online and via paper ballot from February 12 through March 12, 2013. A total of 9,008 voters participated, approximately 13 percent of alumni. Kurz received 7,650 votes.

The process was managed by the Association of Alumni Balloting Committee. The vote count was administered by TrueBallot Inc., (TBI), an independent election administration company that ensures the security, accuracy, and impartiality of association and other types of elections. TBI was contracted by the Association of Alumni and Dartmouth College to manage all balloting, ballot counting, and personal email reminders.

Stephen F. Mandel Jr. ’78, Board chair, said, “The entire Board joins me in welcoming Mitch Kurz. His remarkable career path, marketing expertise, and passion for education will make him an excellent new Trustee.”

Mitch Kurz has 22 years of experience working with New York City public schools, beginning with his role as a trustee of the Harlem Children’s Zone, Teach for America, and New Visions for Public Schools. Serving on these boards so inspired him that Kurz “retired,” earned a second master’s degree, and began teaching mathematics in the South Bronx. He is the academic dean, director of college counseling, and chair of the math department at Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics. Kurz retired after 24 years from Young & Rubicam, where he was president and chief operating officer. He also served as chairman and CEO of Wunderman Worldwide, which he built into the world’s largest database marketing and consulting agency.

Kurz graduated from Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in economics and psychology. He also lettered in lacrosse and played freshman football. He was a brother of Alpha Theta and business manager of the Jack O’ Lantern. He received his MBA with honors from Harvard University. He has served on the Tucker Foundation Board of Visitors since 2009. Kurz and his wife, Sandy, have two sons and live in New York City.

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“Splendid isolation” is what the British labeled their foreign policy in the late 19th century, and it is also how Kathleen Muldoon describes the island of Madagascar as the ancestral lemurs found it more than 65 million years ago. The 309,000-square-mile island was devoid of predators or any other animal life, and offered a wide array of enticing habitats, from rainforests to deserts.

But today this Garden of Eden scenario is being transformed into an ecological nightmare of death and destruction. Our most distant primate cousins are disappearing in the face of radical changes in their environment caused by the presence of humans.

Muldoon, an assistant professor of anatomy at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, studies the evolution of the Madagascar mammals and their ecology. It is an ecology that framed their explosive divergence and dispersal, and now presents challenges to their survival.

Her focus is on recent extinctions, those since the arrival of humans on the island 2,500 years ago. Muldoon’s goal is an understanding of how these extinctions came about—an understanding that could inform what is happening now and contribute to the conservation of today’s lemurs. She delves into the prehistoric record as revealed by her excavations, in the hope of drawing insights into the changes experienced by lemur communities over time.

“Since the arrival of humans, approximately 90 percent of the primary forest has been degraded or completely eliminated, and Madagascar’s native mammal community has suffered the loss of dozens of species, including the giant subfossil lemurs that lived until at least 500 years ago,” Muldoon says. The term “subfossil” refers to remains in which the fossilization (mineralization) process is not complete.

Lemurs evolved on the island of Madagascar, most probably arriving aboard a large mat of floating vegetation. From the African mainland, they rafted across the 300-mile wide Mozambique Channel. They adapted to a variety of niches and diversified into species as small as a mouse to giants the size of a male gorilla. While many of these forms have passed into the depths of time, there are still more than 100 lemur species, and Madagascar is still the only place on Earth where they naturally exist. However, habitat destruction has reduced their numbers to a point where they are facing extinction.

Deforestation in Madagascar is largely the result of slash and burn agriculture. “Rice is a very big dietary staple on Madagascar, and many regions of primary habitat have been cut down, terraced, and flooded so that rice could be grown,” says Muldoon, “essentially fragmenting what were once continuous habitats.”

Under the leadership of Madagascar’s progressive former president Marc Ravalomanana, conservation had been a priority, and there were plans to increase the number of protected areas on the island by 25 percent. However, a military coup in 2009 drove him from office and all protective environmental regulations were abandoned. There has since been a dramatic increase in illegal logging, especially the mass removal of trees to harvest rosewood, prized in China for luxury wood furniture.

And then there is the hunting. Historically, ethnic groups in Madagascar regarded lemurs as embodying ancestral spirits, so taboos kept the lemurs safe from human predation. However, with the influx of loggers and other migratory workers, there is increasing evidence of the hunting of lemurs and a developing bush-meat trade to feed the migrant workers.

Lemur populations have been so drastically reduced that a meeting of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was called in the summer of 2012, specifically to talk about lemurs. “They concluded that more than 90 percent of the lemur species on the island have a critical, endangered, or vulnerable extinction risk rating, so that nearly all of them are considered to be in danger of extinction,” says Muldoon.

While the IUCN recommended increasing protection for the surviving lemurs, in the absence of positive political leadership there is currently little impetus in that direction.

“Unfortunately, the future doesn’t look very promising,” says Muldoon. “There is an election planned this year and people seem to be pretty hopeful and optimistic that change is coming. Scientists are trying to direct public attention to these issues so that if and when a new government is put into place, collaboration with the conservation community might be reestablished.”

Muldoon is not totally without hope. She says that there is a growing interest among the Malagasy people for the promotion of local and foreign ecotourism, bringing the tourists in to revel in the island’s unique animal life. “The situation is depressing now, but I think public interest and awareness of some of these issues are growing,” says Muldoon, “but there are changes happening that may not be reversible, so it is important to bring attention to them quickly and emphatically.”

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In 2008, after seven years of efficacy testing on a tuberculosis vaccine on which he led development, C. Fordham (Ford) von Reyn ’67, Geisel ’69 received a phone call from the data and safety monitoring board that oversaw the study.

They told von Reyn to stop the trial. “The vaccine has been shown to be effective,” they said.

“That was exciting,” von Reyn says with a smile, “That was really exciting.”

“My jaw dropped,” says Lisa Adams, Geisel ’90, a researcher on the project and associate dean for global health at Geisel. “I just remember thinking, ‘Ford’s done it.’ ”

What von Reyn had done was create DAR-901, the first new vaccine in 85 years shown to be effective against the disease. The TB vaccine developed in 1928 is effective only for the first 15 years of life; DAR-901 has shown to reduce rates of TB in HIV-infected patients.

For his groundbreaking research, as well as his leadership as a member of the Section of Infectious Disease and International Health at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, von Reyn will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in Vancouver, B.C., today, March 1, 2013.

But the soft-spoken physician is quick to deflect credit.

“An award like this is never for one person,” says von Reyn, professor of medicine at Geisel. “It’s for a team. None of this would have been possible without these other people.”

These other people are the mentors, colleagues, and students he’s worked with during his career. Sitting in his office, surrounded by photographs of his family and shelves of thick, white binders with labels like “DarDar: Form D,” von Reyn recalls his journey in medicine. He talks about his days as a student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth when he first became interested in infectious diseases.

“It was Dr. Elmer Pfefferkorn,” says von Reyn. “He was my introduction to infectious diseases. He was, as he has been ever since, just a wonderful and inspirational teacher.

“I became very interested in infectious diseases because of their global importance and the fact that they were potentially preventable.”

As a medical student, von Reyn worked at a clinic in Atlanta that treated sexually transmitted diseases. After medical school, he became the state epidemiologist for New Mexico, monitoring diseases such as rabies, plague, and diphtheria.

“Visitors often considered New Mexico a foreign country,” he says with a smile. “You’d have Texans calling, asking what immunizations they needed to come to New Mexico.”

Von Reyn, who is originally from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, eventually made his way back to the Northeast. He worked in primary care for 11 years in Concord, N.H., before being offered a position as head of the new Infectious Disease Section at DHMC.

When he started in 1988, von Reyn was the only faculty member in the department. Today the section has 13 faculty members and more than 40 staff members. Von Reyn, director of Geisel’s DarDar Programs in Tanzania, says it’s been wonderful to see the department grow and to work with junior colleagues.

The feeling appears to be mutual.

“He’s been a terrific mentor, personally, and for so many in the section,” says Richard Waddell, research assistant professor of medicine. “He’s brought a lot of people a long way forward.”

“He cares,” says Lisa Adams. “He’s never too busy to talk to someone about their career and professional development.”

Of course, von Reyn excels in much more than mentorship, Adams says. He is also great teacher and researcher, as evidenced by his work on DAR-901.

Along with Adams, Waddell, Timothy Lahey, and Robert Arbeit of Tufts University School of Medicine, von Reyn spent more than 15 years developing the vaccine, which has shown to reduce the rate of TB in 39 percent of patients who have AIDS. TB killed 1.4 million people worldwide in 2011, according to the World Health Organization.

“There are probably 40 different groups studying new TB vaccines in the world,” says von Reyn. “This is the first one that’s ever shown any efficacy in humans, so we’re very excited about that.”

He says safety testing of the vaccine is ongoing. It will be several years before the product could become available to the public. He says there are numerous challenges, but he remains optimistic and committed to the project.

“That is really my main goal,” he says, “to see that vaccine move forward to be licensed.”

It may be years before he hears the results of the safety testing. But von Reyn, determined to see this through, will wait patiently for the next phone call.

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If you ask Professor Punam Anand Keller, who teaches social marketing at the Tuck School of Business and strategic health marketing in the Master of Health Care Delivery Science program, to describe her work, she has a simple answer.

Keller, the Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management at Tuck, delivers the 25th Presidential Faculty Lecture on Monday, February 25, at 5 p.m. in 105 Dartmouth Hall.

Her lecture, “Building Theory by Breaking Boundaries: Health and Wealth Choice-Making,” explains how social marketing in efforts such as employee wellness programs or retirement benefit enrollment can reduce functional helplessness and help people make active positive choices.

Keller says she “sweats the small stuff” because she knows that the “very big stuff—like changing human behavior and improving the well-being of millions of people—begins there.”

She begins by challenging basic assumptions, all related to the ingrained belief that choice reflects preference. This assumption, she says, is the basis of economic theory of consumer markets.

“The emerging literature on constructive preferences calls many of these beliefs into question. Rather than believe that preferences exist, preferences may be constructed on the spot by the decision maker within the task and the context of the decision task,” she says.

Keller says she is grateful to President Carol L. Folt, Tuck Dean Paul Danos and the selection committee for offering her the opportunity to present the 25th Presidential Lecture. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in Rauner Library.

The Presidential Lecture Series was established in 1987 by then-President James O. Freedman, and honors the contributions of outstanding members of the Dartmouth faculty.

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Dartmouth’s World Music Percussion Ensemble will be joined by a new touring ensemble from Haiti for its winter concert, “Carnival Time—Hot, Hot, Hot!” on Friday, February 22, at 8 p.m., in the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium.

The concert features music of the season of Carnival, in which the Christian season of Lent merges with traditional Earth-centered practices for a celebration of rebirth and renewal, with ecstatic music and dance.

Sharing the bill with the World Music Percussion Ensemble is an ensemble from Lakou Mizik, a multimedia project to internationally promote Haitian music and develop it as a force for social change. The Lakou Mizik (Haitian creole for “music from our backyard”) project was founded last year by Woodstock, Vt., native Zach Niles in partnership with Haitian artists. It is a celebration of Haitian music and culture focused on changing perceptions of the country by bringing the stories of Haiti’s music and musicians to a worldwide audience through recordings, videos, and concert tours.

Niles and the ensemble are performing at Dartmouth as part of the project’s first tour—the first time out of Haiti for many of the musicians, says Niles. Their visit was planned in conjunction with the inaugural Porter Foundation Symposium at Dartmouth entitled “Haiti and Dartmouth at the Crossroads,” from February 20 through 22. The symposium brings together experts across disciplines to propose and implement sustainable solutions to Haiti’s crises in three key areas: education, economic development, and health care.

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Fossum is professor of engineering at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and one of the world’s experts in solid-state image sensors. He worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is a successful entrepreneur, served as chief executive officer of several companies, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011. His interests at Dartmouth are teaching and researching the next generation of solid-state image sensors for gigapixel cameras and for 3D image capture. He also serves as faculty coordinator of Thayer School’s Ph.D. Innovation Program.

Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer, and honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.”

The NAE cites Fossum’s principal engineering accomplishment to be “inventing and developing the CMOS active-pixel image sensor and camera-on-a-chip.” This technology enables nearly all camera phones and web cameras, many DSLRs, high-speed motion-capture cameras, automotive cameras, dental X-ray cameras, and swallowable pill cameras, which amount to several billion cameras manufactured per year.

“It is truly an honor to be recognized at this level by my fellow engineers,” says Fossum. “I am regularly astonished by the many ways the technology impacts people’s lives here on Earth through products that we didn’t even imagine when it was first invented for NASA. I look forward to continuing to teach and work with the students and faculty at Dartmouth to explore the next generation of image-capturing devices.”

Fossum is one of 69 new members and 11 foreign associates announced February 7, 2013, by NAE President Charles M. Vest. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,250 and the number of foreign associates to 211. New members are elected to the NAE by current active members who search all fields of engineering for outstanding engineers with identifiable contributions or accomplishments.

“This is the highest honor the engineering community bestows,” says Thayer School Dean Joseph Helble, “It recognizes Eric’s seminal contributions as an engineer, technology developer, and entrepreneur. His work has enabled microscale imaging in areas that were unimaginable even a few decades ago, and has led directly to the cellphone and smartphone cameras that are taken for granted. We are honored to have someone of his caliber to oversee our groundbreaking Ph.D. Innovation Program.”

He received his BS in physics and engineering from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and his PhD from Yale University, where he worked on ultra-thin tunnel-oxide MOS structures and charge-coupled devices in the Department of Engineering and Applied Science.

After several years of teaching as a member of Columbia University’s electrical engineering faculty, Fossum joined Caltech to manage NASA/JPL’s image sensor and infrared focal-plane technology research and advanced development teams and was later appointed Senior Research Scientist. There he invented the CMOS active pixel sensor (APS) camera-on-a-chip technology and led its development and subsequent transfer of the technology to U.S. industry.

To commercialize the technology, Fossum co-founded and led Photobit Corp., which was eventually acquired by Micron Technology, Inc. He then led Siimpel Corp. as chair and CEO, developing MEMS-based camera modules with autofocus and shutter functions for cell phones. He later joined Samsung Electronics as a consultant on 3D image sensors. In 2010, he joined the engineering faculty at Dartmouth and continues his consulting work with Samsung.

Fossum has published more than 250 technical papers and holds over 140 U.S. patents.  He is a Fellow member of the IEEE and a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He has received the IBM Faculty Development Award, the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence, and has received many additional honors for the invention of the CMOS image sensor “camera on a chip.”

Other Dartmouth members of the NAE include Professor Elsa Garmire and Professor Emeritus Bob Dean. The formal ceremony inducting Fossum into the NAE will take place this fall in Washington, D.C.

Founded in 1964, the NAE is a private, independent, nonprofit institution that provides engineering leadership in service to the nation. The mission of the NAE is to advance the well being of the nation by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshaling the expertise and insights of eminent engineers to provide independent advice to the federal government on matters involving engineering and technology.

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Durham, N.H. – Public health in New Hampshire is the subject of the next Seacoast Science Café at the Portsmouth Brewery Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at 6 p.m. At the first in the spring series of cafes, University of New Hampshire professors Michael Palace and Rosemary Caron will discuss two health threats familiar to New Englanders: Lyme disease and lead poisoning.

Seacoast Science Cafés provide a unique chance for members of the public to learn about issues in contemporary science from scientists who lead the research in the relaxed atmosphere of a pub.

Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the world and infections can lead to severe health problems. Because of the complicated aspects of this disease, it requires knowledge of ecology of multiple host species, which is directly tied to vegetation structure and landscape characteristics.

Lead poisoning is a public health issue that predominantly persists in children residing in urban communities in New England. How common is childhood lead poisoning in New Hampshire? What are the consequences for children with elevated lead levels? How can we prevent children from being poisoned by lead?

Palace is an environmental scientist focusing on tropical ecology, landscape ecology, and geospatial science. His research ranges from field studies of forest structure to using satellite imagery in an effort to both predict disease and understand past human settlement patterns. He is an assistant research professor in the Earth System Research Center at the Institute of Earth, Oceans, and Space at UNH. He is a faculty fellow at the Sustainability Institute and coordinator for the environmental science interdisciplinary undergraduate major, both at UNH.

Caron is a toxicologist and epidemiologist who works with communities by using participatory research methods to reduce public health issues affecting their populations.  She is an associate professor in the department of health management and policy and former director of the master’s of public health program at UNH. She is also a UNH Carsey Fellow and faculty member in the UNH master’s program in development, policy and practice. Prior to joining academia, Caron practiced public health at the Manchester Health Department; Department of Health and Human Services in Concord; and in an environmental-based consulting firm in Mass.

Their presentations will be in The Portsmouth Brewery’s Jimmy LaPanza Lounge, but attendees should feel free to come in early for a bite and a pint.

Other cafés in the spring series are:
March 6:  Sustainable Communities, Public Health, and Transportation: Connecting the Dots
April 10:  Going Underground–How the Soil Beneath our Feet Affects Climate
May 8:  Warmer Water, Riskier Coasts: How Climate Change is Affecting Shellfish and Recreation
May 15:  The Science of Beer

The Seacoast Science Café provides a unique opportunity for researchers to talk with Seacoast residents about the science that directly impacts our lives. The casual environment encourages people to join the conversation, even if they don’t know much about the topic right away. Everyone is welcome, and no tickets or reservations are necessary. The Café series is co-sponsored by University of New Hampshire and EPSCoR, New Hampshire’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.

Portsmouth’s Community Radio, WSCA 106.1 FM, will record each event for replay on the radio, as well as via podcast. Podcasts arearchived on the web at http://nhepscor.org/sciencecafe.

NH EPSCoR is a program funded by the National Science Foundation to increase research capacity in the state. Its current project, “Ecosystems and Society,” seeks to better understand the complex interactions between ecosystems, land use and climate, as well as to provide essential information for state decision makers.

The Portsmouth Brewery is New Hampshire’s original brewpub serving award-winning beers and creative cuisine featuring locally-sourced ingredients in the heart of Market Square since 1991.  We serve all types and are proud to enable folks to do good while drinking well through a number of philanthropic activities.

For further questions or to be added to a mailing list regarding future events and broadcasts, contact: Evelyn Jones NH EPSCoR at (603) 862-1804 or Evelyn.Jones@unh.edu or JT Thompson of the Portsmouth Brewery at jt@smuttynose.com.

The University of New Hampshire, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea, and space-grant university, UNH is the state’s flagship public institution, enrolling 12,200 undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students.

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