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.

UCAR Board

Harlan Spence has been elected to serve as a member of the board of trustees of the UCAR.

Rogue Black Hole

UNH researcher Dacheng Lin has discovered a massive black hole “wandering” at edge of its galaxy.

Eavesdropping on the Ocean

A new federal contract will help researchers like Jennifer Miksis-Olds eavesdrop on the ocean environment. The contract, worth up to $6.5 million, will support ongoing monitoring and research with...

Sponges of the Caribbean

UNH researchers are exploring how sponges, the less charismatic but essential reef neighbors of corals, contribute to overall coral reef health.

Seeing the Data for the Trees

Michael Palace, associate professor of Earth and geospatial science, will use his extensive experience with drones on the project.

Estuarine Expertise

This National Estuaries Week is a fitting time to shine a light on the work of estuary champion David Burdick, interim director of UNH’s Jackson Estuarine Laboratory.

Parched

Some researchers at UNH have found the record drought has changed the way they can conduct research.

McConnell Is New SwRI-EOS Director

Professor of physics Mark McConnell is the new director of the collaborative Southwest Research Institute Earth, Oceans and Space department at UNH.

Magnetic Mysteries, Decoded

A NASA rocket carrying instruments developed by scientists, engineers and students from UNH’s Space Science Center (SSC) has obtained the first-ever data of an elusive phenomenon, providing never-...

A Hole By Any Other Name…

When Captain Andy Armstrong, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) co-director of the UNH/NOAA Joint Hydrographic Center, first learned that a basin in the Gulf of Mexico...

Polar Explorers

Halfway through their six-week research cruise of the Arctic Ocean, UNH researchers Kevin Jerram and Evgenia Bazhenova visited the North Pole.

Digging Durham Point

UNH archaeologists and community volunteers head to a site on Durham Point to look for clues about fortified garrisons that existed in the area around the time European settlers arrived on Great Bay...

Prof 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.

Artisanal Energy

It’s not just for the farmers market any more: “Fresh, local, sustainable” describes how UNH powers its five million square-foot campus.

Union Fellow

UNH physics professor Lynn Kistler has been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the largest single organization dedicated to the advancement of geophysics.

Shiny and New

UNH has a new, state-of-the-art research vessel that will help researchers map the coastal seafloor and better understand the ocean environment while providing training in the latest oceanographic...

Michigan's Mystery Monuments

Merging an innovative modeling technique with old-fashioned sleuthing, researchers from the University of New Hampshire have shed new light on the mystery of pre-European archaeological monument...

Space Man Spence

Harlan Spence, director of UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, has been appointed to the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Divins Drills Down

David Divins is EOS’s first full-time associate director since 2012.

Arctic Appointment

President Obama named Larry Mayer to a four-year term on the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, an independent federal agency that advises the President and Congress.

Smart Campus

A new grant from UNH’s Broadband Center of Excellence to an interdisciplinary team of university researchers aims to showcase innovation in broadband technology and data analytics.

A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

When Captain Andy Armstrong learned that a basin in the Gulf of Mexico would be named in his honor, he thought it was a mistake.

Listening to the Ocean

Asking for time off on your first day at a new job can be awkward.

Magnetic Reconnection

On October 16, 2015, dozens of UNH scientists, space physics researchers, engineers and students made history.

Celebrating Cycling

This month, UNH will join communities and workplaces across the nation in a celebration of car-free commuting with Bike to Work Week (May 16 – 20) and Bike/Walk to Work Day (May 20). UNH is among...

Research Support

A senior engineering student with an eye toward bringing reliable power to developing nations and a doctoral student looking at maternal care in carpenter bees are UNH recipients of the National...

Pier to Plate

Steelhead trout grow within nets suspended from a UNH-designed raft.

Beyond Carbon

Making Waves

Lobsters, parasites, seabirds and sandbars were among the topics presented at the School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering’s graduate student research symposium yesterday.

ISE ISE Baby

Ice gave way to ISE — the Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Symposium — at the Whittemore Center yesterday, where 360 students presented 156 projects that spanned the disciplinary spectrum...

Model Science

Call them the fortunetellers of climate change: Climate models, which draw on the physics and chemistry of the Earth and its oceans and atmosphere, are at the heart of understanding our changing...

The New Normal

As our climate changes, our food and forests, our transportation, even our health will become vulnerable. From pines to pavement, weeds to wheezing, UNH researchers are working on solutions to help...

All Eyes on the Arctic

Each summer, a handful of UNH researchers pass up New England’s hard-won summer and head to the remote glaciers, peatlands and oceans on top of the world. There, they’re exploring the Arctic’s...

Grad Excellence

UNH’s annual celebration of student scholarship and creativity launched April 11 with the Graduate Research Conference in the Whitt. More than 200 students from all academic disciplines shared...

Miracle in Space

Six years ago, a team from UNH’s Space Science Center performed a miracle. 

Passion for Policy

Master's student Samantha Werner '14 received the Ecological Society of America's Graduate Student Policy Award.

CAREER Success

Three UNH faculty members have received prestigious National Science Foundation awards to support work that aims to understand turbulent flows, flexible biomolecules and a unique category of...

Simulating Biomolecules

Although it could one day lead to advances in drugs that treat HIV, Harish Vashisth’s research is far more likely to use supercomputers than the pipettes or microscopes more commonly associated with...

Tackling Turbulence

Assistant professor of mathematics John Gibson, recipient of a NSF CAREER award.

Finkelhor: Child Abuse in Youth Organizations Is Low

Child abuse at the hands of Scout leaders, priests or coaches is far less common than abuse of children or adolescents by family members or other adults. That’s the primary finding of new research...