PAST CAS PROJECTS 
Arts in Society
As part of its effort to reveal the important connection between the arts and sustainability, the UNH Office of Sustainabiality support the course "The Arts in Society" (INCO 480 and SOC 580), which was taught each semester by now retired sociology Professor Melvin Bobick. The aim of the course was to help students achieve a broad understanding of the arts and humanities by seeing to it that students attend symphony, ballet, and opera performances and visit museums, including the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Currier Gallery.
Beaming Bioneers
The UNH Office of Sustainability hosted three consecutive live satellite telecasts of the annual Bioneers Conference plenary speakers, which is held in California. These sessions were complemented by workshops and other activities at UNH to provide practical tools and education around sustainability and to help build community.
Eating as a Moral Act: Ethics and Power from Agrarianism to Consumerism
In April 2004, the UNH Office of Sustainability organized the interdisciplinary Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series and Symposium "Eating as a Moral Act: Ethics and Power from Agrarianism to Consumerism." The event was sponsored by the Saul O Sidore Memorial Foundation and the Center for the Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. The program examined the underlying questions of justice and morality within America's food and farming system and explored the ability of citizens and communities to shape a sustainable food system through their food choices.
National Citizen Technology Forum
As one of six sites across the country, in March 2008 the University Office of Sustainability and Communication Department at UNH hosted a group of local citizens to discuss recent technological advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology that might lead to significant enhancements of human mental, emotional, and physical abilities. This effort to increase public participation in and guidance of scientific and technological research and development is part of a national research effort being undertaken by a network of universities under the leadership of the Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, which has been funded in conjunction with the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The coordinating institution for this particular citizens’ conference activity was North Carolina State University. Other participant institutions included UC-Berkeley, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Georgia Tech, and the Colorado School of Mines. The goal of this project was to learn background information, formulate opinions, pose questions to a range of experts, and make recommendations in a report about the impacts and consequences of human enhancement technologies. The recommendations will be widely circulated to government, industry, and to the general public.
Scheier Project
The UNH Office of Sustainability, the UNH Arts and Society Program, and UNH Dimond Library, in partnership with Ken Browne Productions and the Currier Gallery of Art, collaborated in making the documentary film entitled "Four Hands One Heart," which celebrates the lives and art of former UNH faculty Ed and Mary Scheier. The film was broadcast on over 100 PBS stations throughout the country. The video is available for loan at Dimond Library or can be purchased on DVD through www.4hands1heart.com or through New Hampshire Public Television. In addition, the University collection of the Scheier's work is on display at Dimond Library. Learn more about the Scheier’s story and philosophy here.
"We Hold These Truths": 2007 - 2008 University Dialogue on Democracy
Sponsored by the UNH Discovery Program, the University Dialogue is an ongoing effort to engage the UNH community in a series of discussions and activities that explore a common theme each year. In 2007, UOS partnered with the Discovery Program on a Fair Trade Fair that was part of "We Hold These Truths: A University Dialogue on Democracy." UOS often partners with the Discovery Program to help sponsor events, speakers, films, plays, and other "happenings" to campus related to each year's Dialoge topic. UNH Chief Sustainability Officer Tom Kelly was a Dialogue author during the first Dialogue on globalization in 2005-2006, and during the 2006-2007 Dialogue on energy UOS helped to bring the one-woman show "The Boycott" to campus. Learn more about the UNH Discovery Program...
"The Growing Divide": 2008-2009 University-wide Dialogue on Poverty & Opportunity
Sponsored by the UNH Discovery Program, the University Dialogue is an ongoing effort to engage the UNH community in a series of discussions and activities that explore a common theme each year. UOS often partners with the Discovery Program to help sponsor events, speakers, films, plays, and other "happenings" to campus related to each year's Dialogue topic. Events on which UOS partnered with the Discovery Program as part of "The Growing Divide: A University-wide Dialogue on Poverty & Opportunity" in 2008-2009 included:
- "$3.13 A Day: UNH Food Stamp Challenge" November 15-21
- Mark Winne: Closing the Food Gap on April 1
- Green Art and the Growing Divide, a public art project
