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Faculty and Staff Build Community, Give Back to Make Impact through Sustainability Ambassador Program
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Knowledge and Attitudes toward New Disease-Modifying Treatments for Alzheimer\u27s Disease among Nursing Home Directors
No full textNursing home (NH) administrator perceptions regarding the utility of Alzheimer\u27s disease (AD) disease-modifying medications in NHs are important because many short and long-stay residents have mild AD. This study examined the interest of directors of nursing (DoNs) in using new AD disease-modifying treatments, changes in attitudes based on differences in costs to the NH, and characteristics (DoN and NH) associated with such changes
Granite Staters Worried About Political Violence, Mass Shootings; Trump Approval Continues to Slide 9/30/2025
No full textThree-quarters of New Hampshire residents say they are worried about political violence, while two-thirds are concerned about mass shootings. A majority in the Granite State oppose President Trump\u27s deployment of the National Guard to American cities and few would feel safer if soldiers were deployed to cities in New Hampshire. Approval of Trump\u27s handling of foreign policy, the economy, and his overall job have declined since August, and approval of his handling of the economy is at its lowest point in either of Trump\u27s terms. Just over one-third of state residents approve of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u27s handling of his job
Approval of Trump Remains Low in Connecticut Amid Worries Over Political Violence, Mass Shootings 9/30/2025
No full textApproval of President Donald Trump\u27s job performance remains low in Connecticut, although nearly all Republicans approve. More than two-thirds of Connecticut residents are very or somewhat worried about political violence and mass shootings harming them or their family, while a majority are also worried about a foreign terrorist attack. A majority feel the federal government is not justified in sending the National Guard to American cities, and a plurality would feel less safe if the National Guard or other soldiers were deployed to cities in Connecticut. One-third of state residents approve of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u27s handling of his job
Cultivating Plain Language Skills for Engineering Students
No full textWhile engineers are learning the vocabulary of the profession, understandably, they want to practice, and perhaps show their professors that they are proficient. This leads to student writing that is overly complicated and full of jargon. This is not the type of document that would be clear to the public, or even to a professional outside of the narrowly focused field of the particular engineer. After graduation, engineers’ writing becomes exponentially more important. Often approval of projects relies on residents’ or clients’ understanding of engineers’ work. For example, an engineering firm completing an investigation of an important health concern such as looking into a cluster of cancer cases, air pollution, or water pollution in a neighborhood, but the community fails to mobilize because the engineers were not clear in their presentation of the data and health risks. The plain language movement arose from the legal field and the need to provide more understandable documents free of legal jargon and has since been adopted by many other fields, especially in public health and other healthcare professions, where understanding information about a treatment plan or how to take medications can have serious or even fatal consequences. As engineers are also often involved with public health and environmental health initiatives, encouraging engineering students and professionals to think about how best to explain projects and concepts in a culturally and linguistically appropriate way, as well as how to ask for feedback, local knowledge, and other collaborative communications is an important skill.
At this college, the science and engineering librarian had been trained in plain language through a Plain Language for Health workshop offered by the Center for Health Literacy Research and Practice at Tufts University School of Medicine. She used these skills to create a plain language workshop appropriate for engineering students. The junior civil engineering students had met with the librarian early in the semester to discuss library resources and research paper topics, and so had a rapport with her. Later in the semester, the librarian came again to the class to present the importance of cultivating a sense of cultural humility and using plain language, and to run through several examples of how plain language techniques could be applied to civil engineering. Students were then encouraged to use the plain language techniques in subsequent assignments.
This paper and presentation will discuss the importance of introducing new engineers to plain language resources and methodology, as well as some resources that instructors can use in their classrooms. An example of a classroom exercise will be conducted
Fall 2025 Environmental Sciences Seminar Series, Angela Possinger
No full textThe vulnerability of soil carbon pools to changing environmental conditions is a key factor regulating ecosystem carbon balance. At the northeastern US Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, soil-atmosphere carbon fluxes have changed dramatically over the past 20 years: summer soil respiration flux has doubled since 2015, and heterotrophic microbial mineralization has increased similarly, coinciding with a decrease in carbon content in organic soil horizons. In this seminar, I will explore these changes in the context of temporal and spatial variation in soil carbon pool vulnerability across the landscape. I will also discuss proposed drivers of changing carbon dynamics, including an increase in carbon allocation belowground to root tissues and root exudates
