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. Universitywide awards recognize public service, research, teaching and engagement. UNH celebrates the 2021 recipients.

The IOD report Facts & Figures: 2021 Report on Disability in New Hampshire is now available on the IOD website. Facts & Figures is a regularly-occurring publication of the IOD and focuses on characteristics of the population with disabilities in New Hampshire (NH), with comparisons to neighboring states and the nation. Facts & Figures and its companion piece the Annual Disability Compendium are intended to provide a comprehensive picture of important issues related to disability in NH and the U.S.

The social work profession calls on its members to strive for social justice. It asks aspiring and practicing social workers to advocate for political change and take part in political action on behalf of marginalized people and groups. Yet this macro goal is often left on the back burner as the day-to-day struggles of working directly with clients take precedence. And while most social workers have firsthand knowledge of how public policy neglects or outright harms society’s most vulnerable, too few have training in the political processes that created these policies.

Alexis Piñero-Benson has been named the director of community standards at the University of New Hampshire, coming to UNH from SUNY Oswego, where he served as the director of student conduct since 2019, when the position was created.

Team Cooke’s Novel Methods of Antibiotic Discovery in Space (NoMADS) is excited to announce the winning team of their Junior Scientists Competition! The Decomposers, a team of seven 5th and 6th grade students from Newington Public School in Newington, New Hampshire, chose their soil location based on its historical relevance to New Hampshire and to the United States.

A simple plug-in to a communal phone charger may cause irreversible breaching of your personal data, through what is known as juice jacking. Here are some tips to avoid it.

Carsey School of Public Policy Senior Demographer Ken Johnson joins NBC News to discuss some of the causes of the U.S. birthrate dropping for the sixth year in a row. The Pew Research Center reports that 44 percent of people ages 18-49 who are not parents, say they’re not likely to have children someday.

With a major new grant from the National Institutes of Health, UNH researchers will study the effects of self-directed violence among teens on bystanders.

New research from UNH found that firefighters' blood pressure — already higher than average — jumps during emergency calls, putting them at elevated risk for heart attacks and strokes.

The venom of the cone snail is a possible, if unlikely, source for a treatment for diabetes, UNH researchers have found.