New research from Rogelio Sáenz and Corey Sparks found that people of color and women have experienced higher unemployment than whites and men during the COVID-19 pandemic, and women of color and Latina immigrants have the highest jobless rates. Overall, the researchers said, Black and Latino unemployment remains higher than white unemployment. Sáenz and Sparks published their research with the Carsey School.

Get to know Juan Reyes '23, one of our orientation and peer assistant leaders who helps incoming first-year students adjust to life at UNH Manchester.

Nadine Petty is UNH’s new chief diversity officer and associate vice president for community, equity and diversity. She comes to us from the University of Iowa where she was the executive director of the Center for Diversity and Enrichment. Here she shares her thoughts on her new role with UNH Today.

What do you anticipate your first steps to be? 

After her first semester at UNH, Morgan Saidel was miserable. It took a course in astronomy for her to realize it was because she had ignored her instincts to reach for the stars.

In high school, Saidel’s wanted to study astrophysics — she had a deep love of space — and pursue a career in research. But people whose opinion she highly respected discouraged her, saying it would be hard to find a job. So she declared neuroscience as her major. Then Intro to Modern Astronomy reset her course.

J. Brent Loy, professor emeritus and longtime NH Agricultural Experiment Station researcher, died Friday, July 24, after being diagnosed four months ago with a rare sarcoma cancer.

New research finds less confident people have higher personal intelligence.

Help keep each other safe – and UNH open. Spread unity not COVID. It’s simple. Painless. Necessary. For all of us.

Natalie Lounsbury, a graduate student studying agroecology in UNH’s Natural Resources and Earth System Sciences Ph.D. program, has received a 2020 Switzer Fellowship.