CAS PROJECTS 
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
UNH is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) since 2006, and UNH Chief Sustainability Officer Tom Kelly is on the AASHE Advisory Council. UNH is also a signature to the Talloires Declaration.
Campus Aesthetics & Public Art
The University Office of Sustainability advocates for UNH public arts, campus aesthetics, and architectural crafts that will enhance and enliven the UNH campus. The goals of this include enriching student learning about the role of art in our cultural environment, stimulating public discourse about art, and fostering a sense of community and institutional identity. Examples of this work include the following:
- The UNH University 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.
- In September 2006, a new Wildcat sculpture was installed outside the UNH Whittemore Center. Commissioned by the UNH Committee for Campus Aesthetics and the UNH Art Program Committee in collaboration with the UNH Alumni Association and the UNH Parents' Association, this sculpture is being funded by donations from the UNH Alumni Association and the UNH Parents' Association. See the new Wildcat sculpture for yourself and learn more about its commission and design.
Celebrity Series
Chief Sustainability Officer Tom Kelly serves on the planning committee for the UNH Celebrity Series, which brings world-class theater, dance, and music to the UNH campus every year.
Cultural Excursions
The UNH Office of Sustainability is pleased to invite the UNH community to join us for an exciting program of cultural excursions to the world renowned Boston Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy live open rehearsals featuring outstanding performers! The goal of our Cultural Excrusions program is to cntribute to the campus's and community’s opportunity for shared cultural experiences that reflect the highest levels of achievement in the performing arts. The cost is $40 per person per performance and includes one performance ticket and round trip bus transportation from Durham to Boston. The 2007-2008 season is finished. Please check back this summer for information on next year's program.
National Citizen Technology Forum
As one of six sites across the country, the University Office of Sustainability and Communication Department at UNH are hosting 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 is North Carolina State University. Other participant institutions include UC-Berkeley, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Georgia Tech, and the Colorado School of Mines. The goal of this project will be 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 that will be widely circulated to government, industry, and to the general public.
Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium
The first U.S. Northeast Campus Sustainability Summit (NECSC) was hosted at UNH by the University Office of Sustainability in October 2004. The Summit was designed to convene the growing network of higher education institutions, non-profits, activists, and community members working to advance campus sustainability in the northeast region and to represent a growing network of institutions of higher education from the northeast United States and Eastern Canadian Provinces. The Summit also actively anticipated the launch of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, which began on January 1, 2005. The Decade offers us an opportunity to think ahead 10 years, to envision where we wish to be, and to further implement the principles of education for sustainability. An annual Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium Summit will be held through 2014 and will rotate locations throughout the region. The 2005 summit was held at Harvard University, the 2006 summit was held at Yale University, and the October 8-9, 2007 summit - "Envisioning the Sustainable Campus in 2020: Working Together to Get There" - was held at Bowdoin College. The 2008 summit will be held at Princeton university. The final 2014 summit will return to UNH. Learn more about the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consoritum (NECSC)...
"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. With continued support from the Provost's office, a dedicated group of faculty, students, and staff worked closely with the Discovery Program to develop this year's topic - "We Hold These Truths: A University Dialogue on Democracy" - to select the distinguished faculty authors for this year's Dialogue writings, and to plan a wide variety of events to engage the UNH community, especially students, in dialogue around 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, and UNH Chief Sustainability Officer Tom Kelly was a Dialogue author during the first Dialogue on globalization in 2005-2006.
