In recognition of Veterans Day, we're telling the stories of some students who have served or are currently serving within the U.S. Armed Forces. Michael Elliott, a graduate of Manchester Central High School, is a junior in the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program and has served in the Marine Corps and the Army Reserves. Read about what spurred him to join the military, his path to college, and his goal to work in the prosthetics industry.

Campus News, an independent student newspaper based in Greenwich, NY, has named Manchester as one of "The 5 Coolest College Towns in New England" in an article published November 8, 2015.

UNH Manchester ranks #1 in New Hampshire in the new Social Mobility Index, which compares the extent to which U.S. colleges and universities efficiently graduate students from low-income economic backgrounds into promising careers.

Classes for Manchester School District’s Adult Basic Education (ABE) program are in full swing at UNH Manchester, which welcomes approximately 90 ABE students to its campus this fall. As part of a recent partnership with Manchester School District, UNH Manchester will host the ABE morning cohort for the 2015-2016 academic year. Ranging in age from 25 to 65, many ABE students seek to learn or improve English language skills to better their livelihoods in the region, with some pursuing their GEDs.

Stephen Pimpare, lecturer of American politics & public policy, joined John Hockenberry on The Takeaway to discuss homelessness in the United States.

For its commitment to advancing the state of parallel programming education, UNH Manchester has been named a GPU Education Center by NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing. UNH Manchester’s new GPU computing laboratory will allow the Analytics and Computer Science faculty to expand education and research for students in deep learning, computer vision and speech recognition.

Brendan Landry ‘17 is all about fish and fishermen. When he graduated with an undergraduate degree in health management and policy, he was interested in food systems. His sustainability fellowship in the summer of 2017 ignited a passion for fisheries. Today, Brendan is part of Gulf of Maine Sashimi where he works with local fishermen to sell their high-quality seafood to restaurants in New England, and beyond.

As she finds herself living in Houston, TX, the fourth largest city in America, working towards a Master’s degree, alumna Torie DiPippo thinks, "How did I get myself here? What did I do to get so lucky?" The answer, she says, is simple. "I chose to attend the University of New Hampshire in Manchester, and they chose to believe in me."