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SESL 2008 | Map | Vote

The SESL Challenge asks students to pick an issue in their community and come up with a plan to deal with it. Please browse through the projects (see the map or click on the project's name in this list) and then pick the one you think is best.

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Earth Day

By Kate McNally on Monday, April 21, 2008.

I visited an after school program last week in Winchester. I said, "Earth Day is just around the corner...who can tell me what Earth Day is?" A little boy, maybe about 6 years old, raised his hand wildly.

Keene Students in National Environmental Project Competition

By Amy Quinton on Monday, April 21, 2008.

Students from Keene State College are now competing for the Environmental Protection Agency’s “People, Prosperity, and the Planet” award.
Known as the P-3 competition, college teams from across the U-S design projects aimed at achieving sustainable solutions to environmental issues.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports.

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Harvard to Grant Free, Online Access to Some Research

By Jacob Eaton on Monday, April 21, 2008.

The public at large is about to get free access to research coming from arts and science professors at Harvard University. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, the faculty has approved a plan that will allow the professors to post their academic papers online.

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Health and Human Services Commissioner Nick Toumpas

By Jon Greenberg on Monday, April 21, 2008.

He's been head of HHS for three months, but Nick Toumpas didn’t come in cold - he was previously assistant and then interim Commissioner. He's inherited issues his predecessor, John Stephen, had to deal with: Medicaid, mental health and long term care, but Toumpas also has a tough economy and state budget cuts that have hit his department particularly hard. We’ll talk about the issues he’s begun to tackle and how he’s working around major budget cuts.

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