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. 

Ethan Underhill, NH State Director for Urban Rural (UR) Action, writes an op-ed on UR Action and NH Listens' new collaborative project, titled Deepening Connection and Understanding Across New Hampshire's Urban/Rural Divide. This project focues on working with New Hampshire residents from all parts of the state to "strengthen relations and explore different reflections on community challenges — and their possible solutions."