UNH Today

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.

DURHAM, N.H.—The Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire has been awarded three grants totaling more than $2 million from the National Institute of Justice to study child sex exploitation and related crimes. Two of the awards will provide new information on child sex trafficking victimization and a third will study how the technology is used in crimes like sextortion and cyberstalking.

DURHAM, N.H.—The 2020 elections are the subject of two online panel discussions at the University of New Hampshire that will be moderated by the Boston-based, award-winning journalist and filmmaker Callie Crossley in the Rutman Distinguished Lecture Series on the American Presidency. The first discussion, “The 2020 Election: What Might Happen and What it Might Mean,” will take place Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The second, “The 2020 Election: What Happened and Why,” will take place Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

DURHAM, N.H.—Thanks to a $5 million gift, the University of New Hampshire will transform and expand its existing open ocean aquaculture site into the UNH Sustainable Seafood Field Laboratory. This first-of-its-kind field lab will provide the critical data needed to monitor local environment conditions and the aquaculture system’s impact on natural fisheries.

DURHAM, N.H.— The University of New Hampshire will receive $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will further molecular research to better understand drug interactions at the cellular level and help lead to the development of new targeted drugs to treat wide-spread metabolic, growth, neurological and visual disorders including diabetes and cancer.

DURHAM, N.H.—Investigators at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire have found Listeria in two New Hampshire wild gray foxes. A zoonotic disease, the bacterium can sicken both people and farm animals. Some strains can be particularly important if they are resistant to multiple antibiotics and carry genes that lead to more severe diseases in infected people or animals.

DURHAM, N.H.—The University of New Hampshire’s franchising sector-focused RIFC 50 Index™ regained 17.1%of its market value in the second quarter of 2020 following the worst quarterly drop since its inception. Developed and published by UNH’s Rosenberg International Franchise Center (RIFC), it is the first stock index to track the financial market performance of the U.S. franchising sector.

DURHAM, N.H.—All of the growth in the share of the population that lives in metropolitan counties is due to rural counties transforming into metropolitan ones, according to new research released by the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. Since 1970, 25% of counties containing 22% of the current U.S. population have been reclassified from rural to urban as a result of population and economic growth.