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Most of my research is national level.
So I'm mostly looking at demographic trends all around
the United States.
But I do pay particular attention to New Hampshire's
demographic trends and to trends in
New England, as well.
They represent an important contrast between what's going
on here and what's going on in other parts of the country.
My research really goes in two different ways.
The academic research, which generally appears in academic
journals, and then because so much of my research is timely
and is based on what's happening right now in the
United States, it also gets a fair
amount of media attention.
You're talking to the media about a story
that will appear tomorrow.
Often I'll interact with a reporter 20 or 30 times during
the course of the day on a major story.
And if I'm talking to four or five reporters all at once I
can literally be talking to one while I get an email from
another, and have another one sending me a quote they want
me to look at.
So it's very hectic.
And you have to be right on top of the data
because it's so timely.
This is our modeling--
I'm teaching both the undergraduates and the
graduate students, I'll incorporate a lot of the
demographic data and analysis that I'm doing into the
material that I'm teaching to them.
It's a real compliment to me, especially given the number of
really good researchers at UNH, to be the one who was
chosen to get it this year.
There are certainly other researchers here who are doing
remarkable work.
It's nice to be grouped with them because as a recipient
for this award, so I'm very honored to get it.
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