Alexandra Vergara ’23 didn’t find herself until she started pretending to be other people.

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire were selected to join a newly formed Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries Physics Frontier Center (PFC)

UNH scientists have been awarded a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to advance our understanding of extreme, global-scale events on tropical ecosystems.

Michael Kitch of the NH Business Review reports on the New Hampshire Commission to Study School Funding and the Commission's first look at a possible tax formula that could result in a more equitable funding solution for the state's schools.

Distant Dome columnist Garry Rayno reports on the New Hampshire Education Funding Commission and its work on "revamping the state’s broken education funding system."

Kurk Dorsey, professor within the Carsey School of Public Policy, believes that in the short run, the deal between China and Iran will be better for Iran than for China, because Iran will be able to sell its oil at a time of low demand. “In the short run, the deal between China and Iran will be better for Iran than for China, because Iran will be able to sell its oil at a time of low demand,” explained Dorsey.

New Hampshire’s lead poisoning rate is twice the national average, according to a 2019 report by New Hampshire Listens, a research project of the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy. Each year, roughly 600 New Hampshire children are diagnosed with elevated lead in their bloodstream, amounts of a toxic metal that exceed the levels found in 97.5 percent of American children, according to data from NH DHHS and the Pediatric Environmental Health Center at Boston Children’s Hospital.

An op ed by UNH's Kabria Baumgartner is published in the Washington Post.

Marking off the safe seats

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.