The Carsey School of Public Policy is proud to announce the launch of the Serve & Learn program, offering free and discounted courses to those in public service whose work has changed in response to COVID-19.

Nine scholars join the ranks of College of Liberal Arts faculty. Click the images below to learn about these stellar new faculty.

Get to know Meriah Metzger '20, one of our Mentor Ambassadors for Transfer Engagement (MATEs) who helps incoming transfers adjust to the academic, cultural and social climate at UNH Manchester.

Eden Wales Freedman, a 2014 graduate from UNH’s PhD English program, has been awarded the 2020 Eudora Welty prize for her recent book, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature.

ROTC students hold vigil at the Thompson Hall flagpole in honor of Veterans Day. 

UNH researchers have advanced our understanding of the mutations that result in color blindness and certain retinal degenerative diseases that cause blindness as a result of their unprecedented look at the structure and function of a protein central to color vision in humans.   

As with so many things, the pandemic has altered the regular activities of the UNH Parents Council. However, we remain active as your representatives at UNH, working primarily through our Facebook group. If you’re not already part of it, join us at @unh parents. If you’re interested in joining the Council as we begin to make post-pandemic plans (yes, we will get there), please visit www.unh.edu/parents/parents-council.

When she graduated from New Hampshire’s Dover High School in 2019, Makayla Edgecomb ’23 knew she wanted to go to UNH. Her mother, Laurie, had started out at UNH, but had a life detour and wasn’t able to finish as planned. Now working in the Dover public schools, Laurie Edgecomb believes in attending college right after high school.

In this day and age, earning a quality education is no simple feat. Degree programs are increasingly costly and often take years to complete. However, research continues to prove that the rate of return on the investment of paying for a higher education degree is large enough to encourage the decision to enroll. In acknowledgment of these roadblocks, the University of New Hampshire has designed a flexible and engaging program that allows undergraduate students to earn a master’s degree in just 12 months, allowing them to complete their undergraduate and graduate degrees in 5 years.