LAST FALL, when medical tests revealed that Dawn Cockrum’s 8-year-old daughter, Lily, was at high risk for a rare disease called hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC), the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, resident reached out to Bruce Lee in Kensington, Maryland. Lily’s local doctors had never before encountered HLRCC, had no idea how to treat it — and weren’t quite sure how to connect the Cockrums with Maryland’s National Institutes of Health, the closest center with specialists for the disease.

James Smugereski ’19 never planned on working for a nonprofit. He was a business major, with a focus in finance. He interned at one of the country’s largest insurance companies — twice — and thought maybe he’d go into financial planning.

But Smugereski had completed another internship earlier in his college career. One that he sort of fell into after receiving an email from UNH’s Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise announcing the opportunity to earn 16 credits while spending a semester in Boston working for an organization focused on doing good.

These next few weeks of online classes and social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will be difficult for all of us. But social distancing can be especially difficult for survivors in our community. For those living in abusive households, abusers could take advantage of this social distancing period to gain further control over their victims, leaving survivors feeling trapped with no way out. Social distancing - staying inside, not seeing friends or family and spending long periods of time in isolation - can also be difficult for survivors with mental health concerns.

The UNH STEM Discovery Lab was a busy place this summer, hosting a variety of hands-on science programs for elementary, middle and high school students. Check out a recap of the activities by business and sustainability student Kelsea Batchelder '21, who interned at the STEM Lab throughout the summer.

Cancer biologist Dr. Kristen C. Johnson of Moultonborough, N.H., joined the faculty this fall as an assistant professor of biotechnology in UNH Manchester's biological sciences and biotechnology programs.  

The faculty in UNH Manchester’s Psychology and Neuropsychology programs—who have published more than 20 journal articles over the past few years between the four of them—not only offer students the opportunity to do hands on, real-world research as undergraduates, but also encourage them to get that work out into the scientific community. 

Once a powerhouse in the textile industry, the Queen City has reinvented itself into a hub for entertainment, education, arts and culture. We've compiled a list of some of the events, activities and global foods that students can experience in the Manchester area.

Miranda Dube '15, adjunct faculty librarian, recently had an article published in the peer-reviewed, open-access journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe. Dube's article reports on the results of her statewide survey of public librarians regarding resources and programs for abuse survivors in our communities.