With conflict and human security becoming a top priority for U.S. foreign policy, UNH has launched a fully online M.S. in Global Conflict & Human Security to prepare graduates for careers in humanitarian relief, global development, peacebuilding and more.

Stacey Hall, executive director of UNH’s student engagement and development, has been named the 2021 NIRSA Honor Award recipient by the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association.

In summer 2020, UNH completed its own state-of-the-art COVID-19 test lab in the span of 100 days. All UNH students are tested twice a week, as well as faculty and staff and members of the community, using an innovative self-swabbing kit and RT-PCR tests. During the fall semester, test positivity rate on campus remained below 1 percent.

The Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded UNH Institute on Disability a $2.4 million grant for Building Futures Together, a program offering specialized training for paraprofessionals to better support youth and families impacted by opioid and other substance use disorders.

When some people hear the work ‘hack’ they think identity theft; compromised information, gained when someone illegally accesses their computer. But the hackathons hosted by the Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center (ECenter) are all about creative problem-solving. Hence the new term: ideathon/hackathon.

UNH's Telehealth Practic Center is helping NH prisons and county jails as they struggle to meet the complex health related needs of their residents. 

“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice,” historian and author Carter Godwin Woodson said of founding "Negro History Week.”

The Granite Geek recently interviewed Senior Demographer Ken Johnson regarding his research that found that a "diminished natural increase in population—when there are more births than deaths—was a major contributor to the slower population growth."

Computer science faculty Mihaela Sabin and Karen Jin will present their research at the 2021 Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education's Technical Symposium.

A new study from Carsey School of Public Policy Senior Demographer Ken Johnson shows that U.S. population growth was at its lowest in the century last year, particularly in Northern New England and other rural areas.