HANOVER, New Hampshire, March 2 (TNSres) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: * * * The interdisciplinary projects include cross-campus and community collaborations. * * * A dozen student- and faculty-led interdisciplinary projects have received 2023 Arts Integration Initiative grants, totaling about $100,000, from the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research. The grants are designed to support research with the arts at its core, foster   more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, March 1 (TNSjou) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news release: * * * Sanctions on a matrix of financial experts would be more effective than asset seizure. * * * From astronomical sums of money to opulent superyachts and lavish villas, the assets of the oligarchs providing the political and financial backing for Russian president Vladimir Putin's military ambitions have been publicly and fervently seized by Western nations since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  more

RINDGE, New Hampshire, March 1 (TNSper) -- Franklin Pierce University issued the following news: The Franklin Pierce University Board of Trustees announces the appointment of new members Dominick Miciotta '91 and Rollin Schuster '82. "On behalf of the entire University, I am pleased to welcome Mr. Miciotta and Mr. Schuster to our Board of Trustees," said President Kim Mooney. "We are fortunate to draw not only on their strong professional backgrounds and experiences but also on their unique u  more

RINDGE, New Hampshire, March 2 (TNSper) -- Franklin Pierce University issued the following news: Talesha Saint-Marc '06 has been selected to serve as a federal magistrate judge in New Hampshire. She's the first Black person to serve on the federal bench in the state, according to a court spokesperson. Saint-Marc is a graduate of Franklin Pierce College, and studied law at Northeastern University. According to her online biography, she clerked for New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice C  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, March 2 -- The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services issued the following news release: The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services' (NHDES) Aquatic Resource Mitigation (ARM) Fund is now accepting grant award pre-proposals for wetland and stream restoration projects. Funds are available in the amount of $4,849,100 to restore and enhance aquatic resources in the Merrimack, Pemigewasset-Winnipesaukee, Salmon Falls-Piscataqua and Upper Connecticut wa  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Feb. 28 -- The New Hampshire Department of Natural and Cultural Resources issued the following news release: The N.H. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is now accepting letters of intent from organizations seeking "Moose Plate" funding through the department's three grant programs that support the restoration, preservation and / or conservation of publicly owned items significant to New Hampshire's cultural heritage. DNCR's Cultural Conservation grant program  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, March 1 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following electric order (No. 26,779) involving Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) Corp. dba Liberty: * * * 2022 Default Service Solicitations Order Approving Updated Rates for Large Customer Group and EV-TOU Default Service Customers This order approves reduced energy service rates1 for effect for the two-month period of March 1, 2023, through April 30, 2023, for certain categories of Liberty  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, March 2 -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following electric order (No. 26,780) on March 1, 2023, involving Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electric) Corp.: * * * Petition for Approval of Step Adjustment Order Approving Further Downward Adjustments to Distribution Rates In this order, the Commission authorizes Liberty to apply a further reduction in its revenue requirement, to be applied as an offset credit to distribution rates, associated   more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Feb. 28 (TNSsro) -- The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission issued the following order (No. DE 23-007) involving the Town of Lincoln: * * * Request for Approval of Lincoln Community Power Plan SUPPLEMENTAL ORDER OF NOTICE The Town of Lincoln (Lincoln) filed its Community Power Electric Aggregation Plan (Community Power Plan) with the Commission on January 30, 2023 for the Commission's review and approval pursuant to RSA 53-E:7. On January 31, 2023, the Commissio  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following statement on Feb. 27, 2023: * * * Don't let this weekend's attempted clean up by Chris Pappas distract you from the fact that he, and the rest of the New Hampshire Democrats, are always in lockstep with Biden. While he might feign concern over New Hampshire losing its First In the Nation status in the Democrat primary, Chris Pappas has voted with Joe Biden 100% of the time. He supported Joe Biden's f  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, March 1 -- The New Hampshire Democratic Party issued the following news release on Feb. 28, 2023: The New Hampshire Democratic Party announced today the hiring of Aida Ross, the new Rapid Response Director who will be joining the NHDP communications team to hold Republicans accountable in the upcoming 2024 election. Ross was previously on the communications team for Arizona governor Katie Hobbs' campaign and Rapid Response Director for the Arizona Democratic Party. She  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Feb. 28 (TNSper) -- The University of New Hampshire School of Law issued the following news: The University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law is pleased to announce that Professors Mailyn Fidler and Daniel Pi will join our esteemed faculty in the fall of 2023. Professor Fidler previously served on the faculty at the University of Nebraska College of Law in Lincoln, where she was the advisor to the Student Intellectual Property (IP) Association and a faculty  more

DURHAM, New Hampshire, March 2 (TNSres) -- The University of New Hampshire issued the following news release: Researchers from the University of New Hampshire were part of a world-renowned team that found an intact shipwreck hundreds of feet below the surface of Lake Huron. Looking like it was frozen in time, the 191-foot, three masted sailing ship Ironton sank in the waters of Lake Huron in 1894. UNH's autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) named BEN (Bathymetric Explorer and Navigator) provided sta  more