Editor's Note: This is the latest installment in a series featuring UNH faculty telling their stories in their own words.

André Brito, associate professor, agriculture, nutrition and food systems

Matthew Albuquerque has been an advocate and pioneer in the prosthetics industry for more than 25 years. For his outstanding achievements, service and contributions to New Hampshire, he is the 2015 recipient of the Granite State Award.

Chad Cowan will graduate from UNH Manchester this month. And, armed with practical and cultural experience through an internship at the Turkish Cultural Center New Hampshire, he’s ready for the future. Cowan, a Politics & Society major, began interning at the TCCNH in January as part of his senior project. From making contacts to fundraising, Cowan said the skills he’s learning at his internship will translate seamlessly into a career.

The Teaching and Adjunct Faculty Excellence Awards will be presented at UNH Manchester's commencement ceremony on May 14. This year's Teaching Excellence Award recognizes Jack Hoza, program director and professor of Sign Language Interpretation. Allan Ray, adjunct professor of chemistry, will receive the Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award.

Surya Kranthi Siyadri '20G left his home country of India to pursue his information technology degree. He shares his story as part of our "In Our Own Voices" series.

From April 9 to May 1, 2016, the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester will host “First Folio: The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare” — one of the remaining copies of the book that documented, and immortalized, William Shakespeare’s greatest plays. UNH Manchester partnered with the Currier, UNH Durham, St. Anselm College and University of Massachusetts Lowell to bring the historic publication to the Currier, which will be the exclusive host site in New Hampshire and the Boston metropolitan area.

The presidentially-appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected Dr. Jack Resch, professor of history and program coordinator of humanities, for a Fulbright award to Japan.

Michael Neveu, a Goffstown native and 2015 graduate of the Biological Sciences program, will be the student speaker at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester’s 30th annual commencement proceedings on Thursday, May 14, 2015.

Richard Ober, President and CEO of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, will deliver the keynote speaker at UNH Manchester's 30th annual commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 14.

Nathan Domingues, a Nashua native and junior in the Biology program, spent three years at college in Virginia before transferring to UNH Manchester. He said the affordability, small class sizes and campus community are a few reasons why his college education — and experience — has flourished.