“You’re the Top”

COLA faculty are honored with university-wide awards.

Outstanding Assistant Professor Jennifer Griffith influential to better understanding equitable workplaces

Jennifer Griffith was barely twenty when her first work experiences inspired questions about equity that desperately needed answering. Why was there such a disconnect between employees and management...

Engaging, Exciting Classroom cornerstone of Andrew Earle's Excellence in Teaching

Can you imagine analyzing the strategies of technology companies in class, only to have a finance director at Microsoft pop into the discussion? Or zooming with a supply chain manager at a factory in...

Outstanding Associate Professor Khole Gwebu sets high bar in teaching, research

When Khole Gwebu was young, the last thing in the world he thought he would be is a scholar. With two educators for parents, he understood the life of an academic and resolutely wanted to pursue a...

Building an Idea into a Business

Joel Nkounkou ’18 turned an idea into a new business venture with the help of UNH's Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center, and he now proudly calls several of his former classmates and teammates his...

All in the Timing

With a new gift from the Internet Society, UNH’s InterOperability Laboratory (IOL) is undertaking a project to increase the security of the widely deployed NTP using a new standard called network...

Powered by the Sea

UNH will lead the new Atlantic Marine  Energy Center, focusing on research to address renewable ocean energy, with a  nearly $10M award from the Department of Energy.

Still Seeing STARS

The University of New Hampshire has achieved a renewed platinum rating—the highest possible under the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)’s rating system—in...

Seeking Commencement Nominations

The UNH Honorary Degree and Granite State Awards committees for Durham, Manchester and UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law will soon review nominations for outstanding individuals worthy of recognition...

UNH Named a 'Best Value'

The University of New Hampshire offers one of the 10 best values in the country among public universities and the No. 1 value among public universities in New England, according to the new Best Value...

The Tradition Continues

After a pair of weather-related postponements, UNH hosted its annual University Day (Uday) celebration on Sept. 22, welcoming students, staff and faculty to Main Street to celebrate the start of the...

Remembering 9/11

In observing the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, UNH paused to honor those who were lost, including members of the UNH community: Judd Cavalier ’98, Jennifer Fialko ’94, Robert G. LeBlanc ’59...

Getting Results

The UNH COVID-19 lab has gone from testing only UNH students at the outset to becoming one of the most powerful tools the Granite State has in the battle against COVID-19.

Gutsy, Tough Changemakers

Alex Papadakis ’21 calls herself lucky. During her time at UNH she has been the recipient of several scholarships. This year that included assistance from the Lewis Family Scholarship in...

Helping Hands Abound

It’s not unusual for college students to worry about paying for tuition, room, board and books, especially here in New Hampshire, where average student loan debt is among the highest in the country....

Research Snapshots

UNH researchers are constantly performing impactful work. Check out these engaging "virtual postcards" for a quick glimpse at some of the most timely and interesting research being done at UNH.

Envisioning the Future of STEM Research

Marian McCord will serve on the National Science Foundation's Committee on the Future of NSF EPSCoR.

Research Snapshot: Raising Lumpfish

At UNH’s Coastal Marine Lab in New Castle, N.H., Elizabeth Fairchild raises and researches lumpfish as a potential pest-management solution for the aquaculture industry.

Ensuring a Healthier State

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire will start genomic testing of positive cases of the COVID-19 virus to help monitor for any variants of concern that may be found in New Hampshire.

Research Snapshot: Eerie Quiet

Stanley Ellis, a research engineer with UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, tests a detector inside Morse Hall’s anechoic chamber, a room lined with pyramid-shaped material...

Rescue Mission

COLSA’s department of agriculture, nutrition, and food systems (ANFS), UNH Hospitality Services, and Gather, a food pantry and food distribution network based in Portsmouth, are turning unused food...

Jump Seat to History

34 student volunteers helped power McGregor Memorial EMS, the primary ambulance service for Durham, UNH, Madbury and Lee, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only did the student-volunteers, who...

Local Flavor

Half of Granite Staters report buying food from local farms at least a few times a month but only 15% do so weekly, according to new research released by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the...

Diving back in

UNH will be opening its outdoor pool to the public Wednesday, June 30, with specific guidelines in place.

PFAS Are Forever

Two studies from UNH look at the fate of PFAS after being processed by wastewater treatment facilities.

Excellent Faculty

Every year, a chosen few of UNH’s outstanding faculty members from each college and school receive Faculty Excellence Awards in recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service...

College Ceremonies

Highlights from the commencement ceremonies for each college are captured here. College of Health and Human Services College of Liberal Arts College of Life Sciences and Agriculture and the College...

Crack Faculty

COLA celebrates award-winning faculty in the College.

Pipeline to Professions

Whenever Carl Hubbard ’21 boards a plane and sets off for the Bay Area to begin his job with Cisco Systems, it will be the start of a chapter he’s been eagerly anticipating for more than a year. It...

Return to Commencement

UNH graduate students were the first to receive their degrees as UNH returns to in-person ceremonies. Undergraduate commencement takes place May 21– 23.

Research Rising to the Challenge

This is an example of research at its best: Spark, UNH’s annual review of research and scholarship. Here for the first time in digital format. Take a look; have a read. Be inspired.

Study: 1.4M Children Annually Receive Medical Care for Violence

A national report from UNH shows close to one and a half million children each year visit a doctor, emergency room or medical facility as a result of an assault, abuse, crime or other form of...

Researching His Future

Travis Fischer ’21 is into research. Specifically, research into diseases like cancer. He wants to help stop them from devastating people’s lives by working to develop new therapies and possibly be...

Fulbrights Increase Mutual Understanding

Seven UNH students are part of a celebrated moment in the history of scholarships as 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the Fulbright Program, signed into law in 1946 by President Harry S. Truman.

Stuck Yet? Now’s Your Chance: Vaccines Available

Registration is now open for all members of the UNH community to receive their first COVID-19 vaccine Monday, April 19, 10 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. at the Whittemore Center. 

Challenged to Meet the Challenges

Grace Roy ’22 started mapping her future when she was in middle school, a future that aims to see people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol get the help, and respect, they deserve.

Prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowships Awarded

Four UNH students have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, given to students pursuing master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics...

UNH Nursing Achieves Highest Ever National Ranking from U.S. News & World Report

The University of New Hampshire’s department of nursing has received a #63 ranking for its master's programs from U.S. News and World Report (USNWR). This achievement makes UNH the highest ranked...

Favorable Winds

As the Biden administration announces a plan to expand the development of offshore wind energy development (OWD) along the East Coast, research from UNH shows significant support from an unlikely...

Making It Work

As a nontraditional UNH student, Elizabeth Kipp ’21 took 16 credits a semester her sophomore and junior years so she could finish her undergraduate degree in social work in three years.

From Aliens to New Orleans

A September night in 1961 changed the lives of Betty and Barney Hill when, while driving through New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch area, they allegedly encountered aliens. It would become the first...

Liking Lumpfish

Lumpfish. That’s what was featured in the first video Nate Spada '19 ever posted to TikTok, lumpfish and their eggs. Not exactly the kind of thing you’d expect to draw much interest, let alone more...

Angels Among Us

A gift from S. Melvin Rines '47 continues to give students' hands-on experience as angel investors.

“I Do Solemnly Swear”

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the...

Promising Research

Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM), a rare form of lymphoma, does not have any known cure and only one FDA-approved treatment, making it challenging to treat patients. But with the work being done at...

Partnering to Test

The high toll that the coronavirus has taken on long-term care facilities across the nation underscores the value of a new partnership between UNH and the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human...

Returning to Where it All Started

When Cyndee Gruden ’91, ’93G walked onto the UNH campus as a first-generation college student in the fall of 1987, she had a limited understanding of her own potential.

Politics Aside

Professor Therese Willkomm’ occupational therapy students create technological device holders for such things as iPads and cell phones from discarded campaign signs.

Character Counts

When Julian Maduro ’21 says she grew up around books, she is speaking both figuratively and literally.

A Force in Physics

Nature magazine has selected assistant professor of physics Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to its "Nature's 10" list of 10 people who helped shape science in 2020.