UNH Today

DURHAM, N.H.— As a result of recent efforts to strengthen strategic partnerships with New Hampshire chambers of commerce, the NH Small Business Development Center (NH SBDC) will launch the NH SBDC & Chambers of Commerce Collaborative program.

DURHAM, N.H. – As temperatures begin to drop and fall transitions into winter, snow will soon blanket the northern regions of the United States. But researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found that snow cover is on the decline in this area due to climate change and the shift from winter to spring, known as the vernal window, is getting longer.

DURHAM, N.H.—The Global Social Franchise Index, developed by the Rosenberg International Franchise Center (RIFC) at the University of New Hampshire, ranks 131 countries according to the impacts social entrepreneurship and social franchising can have on the well-being of their populations.

DURHAM, N.H.— The University of New Hampshire has gone underground to flush out cases of the coronavirus by testing wastewater on campus. The sewage sampling is being used as a secondary surveillance method to the already required twice a week individual nasal test to track and detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

DURHAM, N.H.—Red oak and white pine trees could experience slower growth next year as a result of the severe drought in New Hampshire and most of New England that began in mid-August, according to a researcher with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire.

DURHAM, N.H.—Despite political commentary that says otherwise, the nation is not divided into two partisan zones—rural and urban—when it comes to voting patterns, according to new analysis released by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire.

DURHAM, N.H.—Despite political commentary that says otherwise, the nation is not divided into two partisan zones—rural and urban—when it comes to voting patterns, according to new analysis released by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire.

DURHAM, N.H.— Living on a remote island can be idyllic but it does come with some challenges when accessing inexpensive and reliable energy as well as clean drinking water. The University of New Hampshire has received a grant from the U.S. Economic Development Agency to help island communities in the Gulf of Maine find viable and sustainable solutions modeled after a renewable energy microgrid system that powers the Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML) on Appledore Island.

DURHAM, N.H.— People exposed to fake news during the already uncertain COVID-19 era are simultaneously compelled to treat themselves as well as try to save money, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire and the University of Colorado Boulder.

DURHAM, N.H.— The University of New Hampshire will lead research as part of a $1.5 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to better understand how interactions between plants, microbes and soil minerals in permafrost, a subsurface layer of frozen soil covering a fourth of the Northern Hemisphere, stimulate the release of carbon which adds to the warming Arctic.