According to a report published by the Carsey School, studies over the past 50 years have shown that higher poverty rates in rural areas are linked to U.S. Census undercounts. They have also shown that the undercount is greater among racial and ethnic minorities than among whites.

On June 11, for the first time since the Civil War, the NH House of Representatives met outside of the State House, holding its session at UNH’s Whittemore Center, one of the few places large enough to host the 400 members while allowing safe social distancing.

Nadine Petty has been hired as UNH’s new chief diversity officer and associate vice president for community, equity and diversity. She currently heads the Center for Diversity and Enrichment at the University of Iowa. She starts at UNH Aug. 10.

With new NOAA grants, UNH marine research aims to bring better, more sustainable seafood to the table.

Kenneth Johnson, professor of sociology and the senior demographer at the Carsey School, recently joined Ken Gallager, principle planner and coordinator for the State Data Center at the NH Office of Strategic Initiatives, and Jeff Behler, regional director of the U.S. Census Bureau, on New Hampshire Public Radio to discuss the history of the U.S. Census and how Census officials are proceeding during the global pandemic.

Scientists condemn racism in #StrikeforBlackLives action worldwide

Gaps in available data impede our understanding of heavy metals in Alaskan soils that can harm human health, a team of UNH researchers have found.

In a 1967 speech, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.” He went on to ask what America had failed to hear.