The College and the University of New Hampshire received a $100,000 grant to support a cooperative college and university network which would help them meet environmental health and safety requirements at local, state and federal levels. The three-year grant, given by the Davis Educational Foundation, goes towards the New Hampshire College and University Assistance Cooperative. The grant supports audits at each institution to ensure environmental regulatory compliance, and will also fund the development of a website for the hiring and sharing of a student intern to assist with the audits and collect information. Michael Blayney, the College's director of environmental health and safety, said that the eventual goal of the network is to develop a comprehensive Environmental Management System for all New Hampshire colleges and universities, which each institution could adapt to its own needs. The EMS would include elements such as hazardous materials source reduction and substitution, emergency planning and transportation demand reduction.
Diana Geisser '06 received a grant from the American Heart Association to study the structure of a protein related to cholesterol. Geisser, who is one of only six recipients of the AHA's Northeast Summer Student Fellowship Research Program's grants, is trying to make and purify the protein caveolin, which is involved in cholesterol transport across cell membranes, reducing the amount of "bad cholesterol." Geisser began working on the protein in January 2005 with funding from the chemistry department. Since then, she has been able to use bacteria to make the protein, but for her purposes, she needs protein that is purer.
Though overall newspaper readership may be down nationally and on college campuses, college newspapers remain popular. A 2005 survey by marketing research firm Student Monitor reported that though only 46 percent of students read the print version of at least one national newspaper in a week -- down from 49 percent the year before -- 71 percent of college students read at least one of the last five issues of the college paper.
Big advertisers have taken notice of college newspapers as a way to reach a potentially lucrative college student market, which has an estimated $46 billion in discretionary spending every year, according to marketing research firm Harris Interactive. Ford Motor Company, Microsoft Corporation and Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated are among national advertisers who have placed recent ads in college newspapers, according to the Wall Street Journal.
