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Larry Mayer, professor and director of UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, received the National Champion of the Ocean Award from the Urban Coast Institute (UCI) of Monmouth University in New Jersey. The award was established in 2005 to honor individuals who have undertaken actions and demonstrated sustained leadership that ensures coasts and oceans are clean, safe, sustainably managed, and preserved for the benefit and enjoyment of future generations. Mayer was also a speaker at the UCI’s 2025 Future of the Ocean Symposium. Watch his lecture here.

The impact of war on societies across the globe from the third to sixteenth centuries is the subject of a new book by David Bachrach, professor of history. “Warfare in the Global Middle Ages” (Routledge Press, 2025) explores how societies in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas organized for war, engaged in conflict, and coped with its aftermath.   The book, intended for academic historians as well as for an interested lay public, treats warfare in the context of world history by examining both parallel developments and interactions between societies across the globe during this time period. “Humans have always engaged in war,” Bachrach says. “One key, therefore, to understanding how human beings organize themselves socially, politically, economically, religiously, and in every other...

Associate professor of history Jessica Lepler's new book "Canal Dreamers" tells the story of an 1820s attempt to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Nicaragua.

James P. Malley, Jr., professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at the University of New Hampshire, has been honored with the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award from the New England Water Works Association (NEWWA). The award recognizes drinking water professionals who have demonstrated extraordinary commitment and dedication to the water works field throughout their careers. “I have been truly blessed with the opportunity to serve the water family around the globe,” says Malley. "I attribute the vast majority of my lifetime achievements to my UNH graduate and undergraduate students.” Malley, an internationally recognized leader in water treatment technologies, joined UNH in 1988 and spent nearly four decades teaching, mentoring, and advancing solutions to some of the world’s...