chemical engineering
UNH's Vashisth Receives $2.1 Million from NIH Aimed at Advancing Therapeutic Discovery
Harish Vashisth, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, has been awarded a five-year, $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will support his team’s efforts to develop innovative approaches for designing... Read More
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09/14/25UNH's Harish Vashisth Awarded $780K NSF Grant to Advance RNA Research and Train STEM Workforce
A UNH researcher will work to advance our understanding of chemical changes in RNA molecules and train STEM workforce in innovative RNA technologies... -
07/18/25UNH Faculty Members Secure a Record Six NSF CAREER Awards
Six early-career faculty members have received prestigious Faculty Early Development, or CAREER, awards from the National Science Foundation. -
08/01/24Two Professors Receive $4 million to Improve Wound Healing and Tissue Generation
In a significant boost to biomedical research and ultimately human health outcomes, University of New Hampshire professors Linqing Li and Nate... -
05/11/23Bold Ideas, Better Outcomes
Scientific discoveries made by biomedical and bioengineering researchers at UNH over the past five years are transforming how a range of complex...
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05/08/23 - Six Students, Alumni Receive NSF Graduate Research FellowshipsThree UNH students and three alumni received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, a record number for UNH. Read More -
05/05/23 - Awards Honor Innovation and Research at UNHUNHInnovation presented its 2022 Innovator of the Year award to Christine Shea and Kate Siler for IncludeU; and its 2023 award to Jeffrey Halpern for developing and patenting... Read More -
11/07/22 - Twice as NiceSam Mercer ’23, a chemical engineering major at UNH, was named a finalist for a pair of prestigious fellowships to study in the United Kingdom. Both the Marshall and Rhodes... Read More -
06/21/22 - Repurposing Drug Compound Could Slow COVID SpreadKrisztina Varga, associate Professor of Molecular, cellular and Biomedical Sciences. Photo by Jeremy Gasowski. With the end of the pandemic seemingly nowhere in sight,... Read More -
04/01/22 - Golden OpportunityTwo students from the University of New Hampshire recently received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the nation’s premier undergraduate award for science, math,... Read More -
02/22/22 - Boosting BiomanufacturingResearchers in UNH’s Surface Enhanced Electrochemical Diagnostic Sensors (SEEDS) Lab have received an EPSCoR grant from the National Science Foundation for close to $6 million to... Read More -
11/18/21 - Treating Diabetes with Snail Venom?The venom of the cone snail is a possible, if unlikely, source for a treatment for diabetes, UNH researchers have found. Read More -
10/19/21 - Wound Healing TrailblazersTwo chemical engineering professors have received a National Institutes of Health “Trailblazer” award for a project that aims to improve chronic wound healing. Read More -
04/19/21 - Wise Beyond His YearsSam Mercer '23, a chemical engineering major from Sanford, Maine, has received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, the nation’s premier undergraduate award for science... Read More -
03/30/21 - Reactions in ActionNew UNH research has uncovered a novel way of studying protein interactions which may improve the efficacy of a class of drugs — called allosteric drugs — that treat diabetes,... Read More