Michael Ettlinger, director of the Carsey School, sat down with WalletHub to answer questions relating to a recent study that the personal finance website released regarding the U.S.’s most and least self-reliant states. Questions posed to him by WalletHub include how best to increase one’s financial independence and his opinion on publicly funding presidential campaigns – good or bad.

In summers past, a visit to Appledore Island often included a tour of the gardens designed by the poet Celia Thaxter. While the original garden, along with her cottage, was lost to fire in 1914, the Shoals Marine Lab on Appledore has since reconstructed the garden and continues to maintain it, each year adding special flowers grown from seed.

Editor’s note: This is one in a series we call “The Places They’ll Go” that has graduating seniors sharing their plans for the future.

Daniel DiRocco ’20 was always into biology. He goes so far as to say that he loved it. But chemistry — not so much. Until he took an organic chemistry class.

“That’s when I fell in love with it. And that inspired me to get a minor in chemistry and look for grad programs that combined chemistry and biology,” DiRocco says.

UNH researchers will study Amazonia's wildfire history from thousands of years ago to understand how fire might affect the region in the future.

Ronelle Tshiela ’21 has a friend who never drives with anything in his pockets. He keeps his license and registration on the dashboard so if he gets stopped by the police he doesn’t have to reach anywhere they can’t see.

And that’s in New Hampshire.

“The fear is most definitely present here,” Tshiela says. For Black sons and daughters, the talk about what to do if you are ever pulled over is “one of the first talks you get as a kid, kind of like how other kids get the birds and the bees.”

A course in the science of daydreaming got Lauren Flynn ’20 thinking about the creativity that can bloom when our minds are free to wander. That led to a research position in the affect, cognition and computation lab of assistant professor of psychology Caitlin Mills, who taught the class. Flynn met Catherine McGrath ’20, another lab researcher, and the first seeds of a joint project for the 2020 Undergraduate Research Conference began to grow.

According to research conducted earlier this year by Lawrence Hamilton, professor and senior fellow at the Carsey School, Granite Staters are more likely to trust scientists than politicians.

According to a study by Michael Ettlinger, director of the Carsey School, and Jordan Hensley, policy analyst at the Carsey School, black voters are underrepresented in the senate by 16% relative to their total population. The admission of D.C. as a state would reduce that underrepesentation by more than one-third, to 10%. 

UNH history professor Lucy Salyer receives a prestigious international book award.

Carolyn Arcand took home a top prize for a teaching simulation she introduced in her course, Financial Management and Budgeting in the Public and Non-profit Sectors, at the Carsey School of Public Policy.