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Newsletter for Friends of HHS Vol. 6, 2008  Stress and Occupation: Summer Research on the RoadLindsey Wetteland hopes to make a “difference on a large scale,” when it comes to the subject of stress and occupation and she sees research as a way to do it. “The effects of stress are becoming a major health concern in America,” she says, and more needs to be known about stress reduction therapies as well as ways to promote general health.With the help of her faculty mentor, occupational therapy professor, Barbara Prudhomme White, Wetteland applied for and received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. During the summer of 2006, Wetteland traveled throughout New England and met volunteer participants at places of their convenience. Frequently, she met with them at their kitchen tables. Wetteland presented her research at the Undergraduate Research Conference last spring. You can read what she discovered in the University’s online undergraduate research journal, Inquiry. Undergraduate Research Forty undergraduates from the College of Health and Human Services presented research at last spring’s conference. Their subjects ranged from women and body image, to child abuse and neglect, to the experience of childbirth in China. In 2007, 11 health and human service undergraduates received funding for their research. The ninth Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) will be held this April 18-26. The keynote speaker is Berrien Moore, director of Climate Center, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to public education regarding climate change and potential solutions. Moore was the founding director of UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. Recently, he shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Moore was the coordinating lead author for the final chapter, "Advancing our Understanding," of the IPCC´s Third Assessment Report. All events are free and open to the public. For more information visit URC.Article link : Inquiry Research Article
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