Marisa Forti was presented with the UNH at Manchester’s Staff Excellence award in June. Forti joined the college in 2009 and serves as an academic counselor in the Academic Counseling Office and coordinator of both the College Transition Program and Study Away programs. The annual award is presented to a staff member of the UNH community who has demonstrated outstanding accomplishments and

The University System of New Hampshire's board of trustees voted unanimously to name Todd Leach chancellor at its quarterly business meeting June 28, 2013. Leach has been serving as interim chancellor since March 2, when former Chancellor Ed MacKay retired.

U.S. lodging executives’ sentiment about general business conditions was up slightly in May compared to the prior month, according to the UNH Lodging Executives Sentiment Index (LESI) for the current month ending May 2013. The index moved from 69.3 in April 2013 to 71.2 in May 2013. 

The board of directors of the UNH Alumni Association recently voted to provide $25,000 toward the construction of the STEM Discovery Lab in UNH Manchester’s new space in the Pandora building. This contribution was made in recognition of the importance of the project in furthering a joint effort among the state's institutions of higher education to double the number of graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines by 2025.

UNH has licensed Qualtrics (qualtrics.unh.edu) online survey software for use by all faculty, staff, and students. Qualtrics is a robust tool with many powerful features.

An increase in the federal minimum wage will disproportionately benefit hourly paid workers who are young, female, nonwhite, never married, and less educated, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at UNH.

The new research is presented in the Carsey Institute policy brief “Who Would Be Affected By a New Minimum Wage Policy?” The research was conducted by Jessica Carson, a vulnerable families research scientist at the Carsey Institute.

To continue building their companies, growth entrepreneurs depend on short-term, liquid sources of debt financing such as bank loans, even though winning a thumbs-up from bankers is no cakewalk. Yet UNH researchers have shed new light on how entrepreneurs can influence their creditworthiness.

Rural workers are more likely to work at middle-skill jobs that do not require a four-year college degree compared with their urban counterparts, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at UNH. 

The new research is presented in the Carsey Institute policy brief “Middle-Skill Jobs Remain More Common Among Rural Workers.” The research was conducted by Justin Young, a doctoral student in sociology at UNH and a research assistant at the Carsey Institute.