In early August, the University of New Hampshire at Manchester held a graduation celebration for students in the intensive summer English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program. The occasion was particularly meaningful as it marked the 25th anniversary.

Nate Rowe ’25 had no idea when he reported to his summer gig as a lifeguard in Harwich, Massachusetts one Wednesday in early August that he was about to become a local hero and celebrity.

In the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Olivia Babin, administrative coordinator in UNH’s languages, literatures and cultures department, couldn’t sleep. “All I did was text my family, ‘Are you alive?’ and then I would text another sibling, ‘Are you alive?!’”  recalls Babin. “I was so scared not knowing what to do.”

The Lamprey River Hydrological Observatory has been collecting data on the chemistry and hydrology of the 212-square-mile Lamprey River watershed, providing a baseline of data on river/stream discharge, levels of nitrogen and greenhouse gases (including methane and nitrous oxide), and dissolved organic matter to compare with future climate change-based measurements and provide a historic look at how a developing landscape and warming climate have affected the river to date.

UNH is accepting nominations for 2023 commencement speakers. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the university are invited to submit ideas.

“Ding! Ding!” The bright chiming of a bicycle bell never sounded so cheerful to Steve Pesci, special projects director for UNH Facilities.

Over 20 years, Pesci has worked with groups that dreamed of bringing a bicycle-sharing program to the Durham campus, only to see them stymied by the lack of technology that could make sharing easy to access.

But under bluebird skies on a recent August morning, he joined with UNH President Jim Dean and 30 staff, students, faculty and Durham residents who finally put UNH’s first bicycle-sharing program on the road.

Yashwant Prakash Vyas has been named director of the Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom at the University of New Hampshire. Vyas is a proud second-generation educator and is a higher education, nonprofit and organization development practitioner who centers access, equity and inclusion in his work. He has a portfolio of working at three R1 public flagship universities in the United States.

Cari Moorhead, dean of the Graduate School at the University of New Hampshire, has been appointed president of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS), a regional affiliate of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), for the academic year 2022-2023. In addition, UNH will host the 2023 Annual Regional NAGS Conference April 20-22, welcoming graduate level educators from the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, D.C.

Theatre and dance faculty emerita is mourned.

“If you get involved in community development work, it means you're basically an optimistic person because you believe that the work you can do can make a difference… And the thing about development at the community level: you actually can.”

“If you get involved in community development work, it means you're basically an optimistic person because you believe that the work you can do can make a difference… "And the thing about development at the community level: you actually can.”