UNH Today

UNH Researchers Receive Grants to Address Forestry Priorities of Granite State

Three researchers from the University of New Hampshire will receive grants for research that will address priority issues facing forest stakeholders in the Northern Forest region. These three grants total nearly $600,000 are among 11 announced by the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC) directors, who represent the 26 million acres of the Northern Forest region in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. These 11 NSRC grants total $1.5 million in federal funding and $800,000 in matching private sector, state, and nonprofit organization support.

A Sense of Purpose

Traditionally, the stories featured in UNH Today’s “The Places They’ll Go” are all about where new graduates are headed. Not so for Whitney O’Connell ’21. By the time she received her master’s degree in May, she was already gone.