UNH Online has been named a recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Enrollment Management Award from the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA).

Many predicted a baby boom resulting from the COVID-19 quarantine. However, research from the Carsey School of Public Policy's Ken Johnson shows just the opposite. A Q106.5 article describes how the state of - along with surrounding states New Hampshire and Vermont - have had a death rate exceeding the birth rates for the past two years.

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.

Ralph Baer is considered the father of the modern video game; to honor his legacy, his sone, Mark, helped create the Ralph H. Baer Family Patent Scholarship, which supports students with passions similar to his father’s: those studying patent law, ideally with a focus on electronics.

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 Sustainability Studies, awarded to “gutsy youths, men and women who can inspire others and possess the moral courage to make tough decisions and create change.”

It is a description that inspires her.

Daniel Loomis Valenza is a woodworking artist whose work has been showcased in the Smithsonian, sold by Sotheby’s and included the 1969 groundbreaking exhibition of studio crafts, “Objects USA,” as well as its revival “Objects USA 2020.”

But according to friend and former student Doug Peters ’71, Valenza “hides his light under a bushel” — not fully acknowledging the significance of his own work, or his legacy in American contemporary art.

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 will also be take-two.

Hubbard had secured an internship with Cisco last summer and by mid-February had also secured the plane ticket to take him there. But the COVID-19 pandemic forced the internship to become remote, leaving Hubbard with the potential sunk cost of travel and a lack of a suitable home office set-up.

For the past 13 years, the Hamel Scholars Program has offered generous scholarships and an engaging undergraduate experience to the Granite State’s best and brightest students, and served as a springboard for those scholars to earn national grants and fellowships, pursue advanced degrees and find professional success.

“We are entering now… one of the most pivotal decades in human history. We need to urgently and fundamentally reorient major parts of our society toward sustainability and resilience. And look who is standing right next to us as we take this next leap: it’s Jo Lamprey," Says UNH Sustainability Institute Executive Director Tom Kelly.

"We want this program to be a springboard for young women and men to develop the skillset and the mentality to be able to be impactful leaders in whatever career they choose," says donor Morgan Rutman '84.