Getting to the Root of the Matter

Study by graduate student finds roots comprise almost a third of total tree biomass.

Eruption Clues

UNH researchers create a snapshot of volcano plumbing.

Tracking a Population in Peril

For the past four years, UNH professor Pete Pekins has been tracking the decline of New Hampshire’s moose population at the hands of the winter tick.

Road Scholars

Researchers find rising seas could cause flooded roads in unexpected places on New Hampshire’s Seacoast.

Researching Healthy Lakes

UNH researchers will examine how lake water quality in the Northeast’s temperate forests changed over the past three decades.

Grad Honors

A UNH doctoral student has received AASHE's Campus Sustainability Research Award.

Innovator Winner

Brian Calder has been named Innovator of the Year.

Warming Soils, Warming Earth

In Science paper, UNH researchers describe a new feedback loop that could accelerate global warming.

Communications Breakdown?

Nathan Schwadron explores the effects of radiation from solar winds on Earth.

Woodland Woes

New England has been losing forestland to development at a rate of 65 acres per day, according to report co-authored by John Aber.

Advancing Manufacturing

With new NSF grant, UNH will address New Hampshire's workforce needs.

Academic Consequences

New UNH research has found that campus sexual violence significantly affects academics.

Tracking a Troubled Icon

The iconic moose is in decline. Here's what UNH researchers are doing about it. 

Win(d)-Win Proposition

Nike’s “Breaking2” running project tapped UNH’s Flow Physics Facility.

Strength in Numbers

Cell Sorter

Need your cells sorted? The University Instrumentation Center’s new sorting flow cytometer can help.

Northwest Passage

For two days in March, UNH will be the epicenter for discussions about how New England will respond to changes in the Arctic.

Prize on the Bottom of the Sea

A team of UNH-trained hydrographers are in the running for the $7 million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. 

UNH Grad Is Point Person on Eclipse Comms

C. Alex Young '01G is talking about the eclipse. A lot. 

We’re All Heliophysicists

 

Smart Ash

New UNH research will help scientists measure, and thus predict the movement of, tiny particles like ash from volcanic eruptions.

Sibling Studies

Corinna Jenkins Tucker aims to understand the role of conflict in sibling relationships.

Good Listener

Jennifer Miksis-Olds has made a career out of listening to some of the Earth’s most curious creatures.

CoRE Strength

“Universities have departments but the world has problems,” goes the old adage. UNH’s new annual Collaborative Research Excellence (CoRE) initiative, supported by the Office of the Provost and the...

Griffin Wins Patriots Community Award

Louise Griffin was honored at Gillette Stadium recently for her leadership of the Zack’s Team Foundation, which addresses the issue of substance abuse.

On High with Scott Ollinger

Scott Ollinger, professor of ecosystem ecology, understands our changing climate by studying the forests AND the trees.   

Meghan Howey Digs Durham

On the edge of Great Bay, Meghan Howey, associate professor of anthropology, digs for clues to New Hampshire's early — and violent — past.  

Road Scholars

Rising groundwater can flood roads up to two miles from the ocean, new research from UNH has found.

Rising Star

Michael Thompson received the Rising Star of Excellence award at a conference in Denver recently. 

Birdbrained

At their core, the findings of recent research led by Matt MacManes seem obvious: Males and females are different. Yet the work disrupts a long-held gender bias within experimental science.

Ocean Invasives

UNH researchers looked at seaweed populations during the last 30 years in the Gulf of Maine.

CAREER Boost

Two UNH assistant professors, Marko Knezevic of mechanical engineering and Qiaoyan Yu of electrical and computer engineering, have received prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program, or...

Broadband Grants

UNH’s Broadband Center of Excellence has awarded two grants to UNH researchers.

Winning at Brevity

How do you describe years of research in lay terms and in just three minutes? UNH graduate students have the answer.

Supporting Research and Economic Development

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen met with UNH faculty and student researchers in Durham last week. 

Disability Data

This past November,4,405,000 people with disabilities in the U.S.had jobs. That’s 300,000, or four percent, more people with disabilities who worked than in November 2015, but still just 31.1 percent...

Disability Data

This past November, 4,405,000 people with disabilities in the U.S. had jobs. That’s 300,000, or 4 percent, more people with disabilities who worked than in November 2015, but still just 31.1 percent...

Spotlight on Graduate Research

UNH graduate students took the spotlight last week during the Graduate Research Conference.

Regenerating Tissue, Revitalizing Industry

In December, UNH was tapped to play a leading role in a major national public-private institute that aims to launch an industry, headquartered in New Hampshire, that will develop bioengineered human...

Forging a Path for LGBT Physicists

Elena Long, a postdoctoral researcher in UNH’s physics department, made news twice in the final months of 2016. First, the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility...

Engineering an Oasis

Growing up in India, Sid Nigam ’16 saw plenty of food insecurity and malnutrition. At UNH, the mechanical engineering student channeled a passion for sustainable, affordable food into a project that...

Living Longer, Living Stronger

At the heart of exercise scientist Summer Cook’s research lies a deceptively simple question.

Marko Knezevic Snags CAREER Award

Scanning electron microscope image of a fractured magnesium alloy  

Hall of Fame

Larry Mayer has been inducted into the Hydrographer Hall of Fame.

To the CoRE

UNH has launched a new internal funding competition to support interdisciplinary collaborations across campus.

Reduce, Reuse, REMADE

UNH will join more than 100 partners from industry, academia and government in a new Department of Energy institute focused on the reduction of energy and emissions through more efficient material...

Tissue, Organ Research Institute Coming to Manchester

UNH will play a leading role in a major national public-private institute that will create an industry to regenerate human tissue and organs. Funded by $80 million from the U.S.

Professor with a Porpoise

Chris Glass wouldn’t blame you if you’ve never heard of the vaquita. The small porpoise is so secretive that it wasn’t discovered as a species until 1958. Plus, there are only about 60 of them in...

How's the Weather in Space?

Rocket with instruments designed by UNH researchers blasted into space Nov. 19 (Photo: NASA)

The Soggy Truth

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of survey respondents' perceptions of climate and weather.