UNH Today

COVID and the Brain

In the early days of COVID-19, as people were trying to filter the onslaught of information and what it meant to them, Amy Ramage was focused on their brains. Or more specifically, the brains of those who were or might become infected.

Flushing Out COVID-19

UNH research is flushing out cases of the coronavirus by testing wastewater on campus. The sewage sampling is being used as a secondary surveillance method to the already required twice-weekly individual nasal test to track and detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

NHPR: Election Countdown: Candidates Make Their Final Pitch During Time of Exceptional Turmoil

Dante Scala, faculty fellow at the Carsey School, joined Jake Lahut, politics reporter for Business Insider, and Ella Nilsen, politics reporter for Vox, to discuss the major themes of this political season, including the pandemic response and what looks like a record level of civic engagement based on early voting counts. They also discuss Carsey's newest research brief, Voting Attitudes Along the Red Rural–Blue Urban Continuum, which Scala co-authored with Carsey Senior Demographer Ken Johnson.