An Accidental Professor

"That mistake I made back in middle school led to a career of great joy and personal satisfaction." Read More

Engineering a Better World

"Studying abroad and studying the arts changed my life." Read More

In Her Mentors' Footsteps

"As a single parent for much of my childhood, my mother placed a high value on a college education and the self-reliance a degree offered." Read More

The Long Trajectory

"I’m a classic case of having had an amazing teacher who challenged me." Read More

Finding Physics in the Bad Stuff

"When I was in first grade, I fell out of a tree ... I ended up having a grand mal seizure and wound up in a coma." Read More

From Odd Jobs to College Professor

“I’m the great-grandson of a slave. My father’s grandmother had been a slave in Virginia. Both of his parents attended historically black colleges." Read More

An Army Career Leads to UNH

"My father immigrated from Sicily when he was 11. He ended up dropping out of high school when he was 17 to join the Navy and was sent to Vietnam." Read More

Meet Our Faculty: Matthew MacManes

"When I graduated from high school, I didn’t know what I wanted to do, so I decided to be an exchange student."  Read More

Meet Our Faculty: Grant Drumheller

“I grew up in Toledo, Ohio. They have an incredible museum — there’s one great painting by everyone." Read More

Meet Our Faculty: Erin Bell

"I am the granddaughter of a village blacksmith (who)learned to weld in a German workcamp in Berlin during World War II." Read More