UNH welcomed NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to campus for a visit June 27, shining a spotlight on UNH’s leading heliophysics program and the continued strength of a partnership between the university and NASA that began more than 60 years ago.

In July, Dr. Melinda Negrón-Gonzales will officially make the jump from Manchester to Durham and join the faculty at the Carsey School of Public Policy. The 30-mile move may not seem all that momentous after a career that has taken Dr. Negrón-Gonzales from her hometown of Queens, New York, to New Hampshire’s Queen City, with a few stops around the world in between. However, the College of Professional Studies (CPS) in Manchester has been her home for the past fifteen years and she has fallen hard for that corner of the UNH community. Dr.

Maggie Hayes '23 had the opportunity to hone a variety of research skills as an undergraduate at UNH, an experience that highlighted her time on campus and culminated with a presentation at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Conference. Hayes' work centered on surveying skunk adenovirus-1 (SkAdV-1) in wildlife from the state of Maine.

The University System of New Hampshire (USNH) will exceed $200 million in biennial state support for the first time since fiscal years 2010-11 as a result of a state budget recently signed by Gov. Chris Sununu. The combination of operating, capital and one-time surplus support for USNH will be $216 million for the biennium, a 12.5% jump from the current budget.

Emma McGuire ’25 is spending the summer as an intern with the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science (BMSIS), taking a first significant step toward a career in which she hopes to work with marine microbes. And, thanks to news she received earlier this spring, she already knows what one of the next steps will be.

UNH will receive $1.2 million for its role in four research grants to study space energy transfer and to create 3D space visualizations.

TSA agents at the Pittsburgh airport got a scare recently, when Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Mamros ’23G sent her research — which aims to create customizable trauma fixation hardware that will hold bones together while they heal — through the scanner.

COLSA research examines the role that a part of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii plays in switching on and off the genes responsible for regulating infections caused by the parasite.

UNH's composting program, which began in the 1990s, is a collaborative effort encompassing UNH Dining Services, Health & Wellness, Farm Services and other units.

COLSA graduate student Shyloh Favreau worked with a team to categorize bee species in Granite State apple orchards in an NHAES-supported study.