July 17, 2018
DURHAM, N.H.—After a national search, longtime New Hampshire resident and University of New Hampshire alumna Elizabeth Gray was selected to lead the Small Business Development Center as state director, effective July 16, 2018. An outreach program of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics at UNH, the SBDC provides confidential, no-cost long-term business advising to build and strengthen new and existing New Hampshire businesses.
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University of New Hampshire Dean's List (Spring 2018 Semester)
DURHAM, N.H. - Congratulations to the following students who have been named to the Dean's List at the University of New Hampshire for the spring 2018 semester.
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 DURHAM, N.H. – Ornamental aquarium fish like the clownfish Nemo and his pal the royal blue tang Dory one day may be dining on high-quality yet inexpensive white worms grown in New England. New research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire has...
Read MoreUNH Research Finds White Worms an Inexpensive Food Source for Aquarium Fish |
 DURHAM, N.H. – Tropical forests span a huge area, harbor a wide diversity of species, and are important to water and nutrient cycling on a planet scale. But in ancient Amazonia, over 500 years ago, clearing tropical forests was a way of survival to provide land for families to farm and villages to...
Read MoreUNH Researchers Find Human Impact on Forest Still Evident After 500 Years |
 DURHAM, N.H. – Oil spill expert Nancy Kinner, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of New Hampshire, is available to comment on an Iranian tanker sinking in the East China Sea that could be the largest tanker spill in more than 25 years. As director of UNH's Coastal...
Read MoreMEDIA ADVISORY: UNH Expert Available to Discuss Oil Spill in Chinese Waters |
 DURHAM, N.H. – What is New England’s role in the global battle against wheat stem rust? How have day neutral strawberries extended the state’s strawberry season? And how are unmanned aerial vehicles improving the accuracy of remote mapping of New Hampshire’s forestry resources? Researchers at the...
Read MoreUNH Scientists Share Expertise at N.H. Farm and Forest Expo |
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DURHAM, N.H. – Beginning this fall, 25 first-year students at the University of New Hampshire will receive seed money and support to take their entrepreneurial ideas to the next level. The Idea & Innovation Society will identify and engage incoming students from all colleges and majors with a...
Read MoreUNH Launches Entrepreneurship Program for First-Year Students |
DURHAM, N.H. - Watts Water Technologies, Inc. and Voi have received Granite State Technology Innovation Grants in the latest round of funding from the New Hampshire Innovation Research Center (NHIRC), a state program administered by the University of New Hampshire. The funding enables companies to...
Read MoreN.H. Businesses Awarded Grants for Research and Product Development |
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DURHAM, N.H. – A new program developed by the University of New Hampshire will help 30 students from Manchester West and Dover high schools with academic talent and financial need attend college to study in the fields of science, technology, engineering or math. The Finishers’ Program will provide...
Read MoreNew Program Offers Support and Scholarships for N.H. Students to Study STEM at UNH |
DURHAM, N.H. – From 2005 to 2015 the number of infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in the Granite State increased fivefold, from 52 to 269, according to new research by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. In 2015, newborns diagnosed with NAS...
Read MoreUNH Research Finds Increase in Number of Babies Born Drug Exposed in N.H. |
 DURHAM, N.H. – In the first long-term study of New Hampshire’s bumblebee population, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found three of the state’s most important bumble bee species have experienced drastic declines and range constriction over the last 150 years, with a fourth bee...
Read MoreUNH Researchers Find Drastic Decline in N.H.’s Bumblebees |
 DURHAM, N.H. – Nature lovers beware, environmental models used by researchers at the University of New Hampshire are showing that the effects of climate change could be much stronger by the middle of the 21st century, and a number of ecosystem and weather conditions could consistently decline even...
Read MoreUNH Researchers Find Effects of Climate Change Could Accelerate By Mid-Century |
 DURHAM, N.H. – This winter University of New Hampshire researchers will monitor New Hampshire’s snowpack in real time using new sophisticated snow scales installed at UNH’s Kingman Research Farm, a facility of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. This monitoring will lead to better...
Read MoreNew Snow Scales Let UNH Researchers Measure Changes in N.H.’s Snowpack in Real Time |
 DURHAM, N.H. -- Shawn Gorman ’89 — the third chairman in L.L. Bean’s century-plus history — is now the newest member of the University of New Hampshire Foundation’s board of directors.
The UNH Foundation, which was established in 1989 to build private support for the university, is an energetic...
Read MoreL.L. Bean Chairman Joins UNH Foundation |
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