There was a time when Katie Hawkinson ’22 never imagined herself in sales. Shy and soft-spoken, she sometimes wouldn’t even engage over the phone. 

That changed when she joined UNH’s Professional Sales Group (PSG) in her junior year. Through immersive coursework, sales competitions, and mentorship from professionals, Hawkinson developed the confidence to pitch, negotiate, and close — skills that led to an internship at BitSight, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm, and ultimately to her current role as an account executive. 

Earlier this week, a major Amazon Web Services outage caused a significant dirsruption to apps and websites around the world. UNH's Aleksey Charapko, assistant professor of computer science whose work focuses on designing systems to be less vulnerable to such disruptions, weighed in on the recent situation.

As winter approaches, join UNH in helping those in our communities who may need some help staying warm this year. The Basic Needs Support program, UNH Athletics, UNH Parent's Council, the Office of International Students and Scholars and a dedicated group of faculty and staff are seeking winter clothing donations.

UNH Extension tick expert Shyloh Favreau shares some tick tips for protecting your pets.

For a group of incoming UNH honors students, their first days of college won’t be remembered for a feeling of homesickness or anxiety around fitting in but rather for dodging poison ivy while playing capture the flag, attempting to decode unknown animal noises in the middle of the night and spontaneously square dancing in near-total darkness.

In partnership with a landowner in nearby Madbury, UNH Professor Meghan Howey and her colleagues were able to identify the site of a 1701 garrison known as the Meserve Garrison, completing a dig at the site that contained not only the foundation but some additional artifacts from the colonial period.

Larry Mayer, professor and director of UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, received the National Champion of the Ocean Award from the Urban Coast Institute (UCI) of Monmouth University in New Jersey.

UNH marketing professor Billur Akdeniz co-authored "International Marketing in a Changing World: A Managerial Guidebook," inspired by an MBA student who noted the lack of a single resource on global marketing. The book blends research, real-world cases, and practical tools to help managers navigate today’s rapidly changing international business landscape.

UNH researcher Cheryl Whistler investigated the role of gut microbiota in opioid response. She found that butyrate, whether produced by microbes or added to the diet, can reduce the development of opioid tolerance, a key risk factor for opioid addiction.

When the federal government shuts down, agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are forced to furlough most of their staff. That means there are fewer regulators watching over insider trading — trades made by company executives or others with access to nonpublic information.