Shari Robinson, assistant vice provost for student life at UNH, shares why she feels it’s so important for our university community and the New Hampshire Seacoast community to pause and honor Juneteenth. Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 and announced the end of slavery, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

In preparing for a visit to Washington, D.C. as part of the annual Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Advocacy Day, Cari Moorhead, dean of the UNH Graduate School, was willing to allow for the fact that most of the people she’d be meeting with likely don’t think about graduate education in the same all-consuming way she does.

But she was looking forward to trying to change that.

Fulbright grants will send four recent UNH graduates to Scotland, Germany, Mexico and Indonesia in the coming months in order to pursue English teaching, research or graduate study work.

UNH held its annual reunion celebration June 2-4, welcoming more than 200 people to campus for a full weekend of festivities. This year's reunion celebrated the classes of 1963, 1968 and 1973, as well as the 50th reunion of the Black Pioneers. 

Yashwant Prakash Vyas, director of UNH’s Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom, was recognized with an Equity and Social Justice Award for his excellent contributions as a change agent for equity and social justice by the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE) at its 2023 annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Last week (June 6 – 8, 2023), UNH hosted federal government researchers for a meeting of the Interagency Advanced Power Group, a federal organization that strives to share information and increase effectiveness of the interagency research and development in advanced power. The meeting showcased UNH expertise in energy, the environment and advanced power and highlighted world-class facilities like the Olson Center, the InterOperability Lab and Chase Ocean Engineering.

One of the largest remaining plots of American chestnut trees in New Hampshire is located at the UNH Kingman Research Farm. The one-acre research plot is a joint effort between the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station and The American Chestnut Foundation to determine whether certain tree varieties are resistant to the blight fungus.

Two disparate faculty research projects — squash and pumpkin seeds and smart insole sensors — got a boost from the inaugural UNHInnovation Fund recently. The fund awarded two $50,000 grants to help Christopher Hernandez, assistant professor of agriculture, nutrition and food systems, and assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering Diliang Chen move their innovations closer to licensing and commercialization.

Collaborative research led by UNH scientists and alum aims to make the channeled whelk industry more sustainable and result in the resurgence of the species, as well as preserve horseshoe crabs, which are often used a whelk bait and are already at risk due to their unique blue blood that is prized by the biomedical industry.

Alumni, faculty, staff and students were recognized for their sustainability efforts during the third annual UNH Sustainability Awards on Tuesday, May 9.

Awards included lifetime achievement recognition in each of the non-student categories, as well as selection of a Student Organization of the Year.