College of Engineering & Physical Sciences

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Faculty Excellence Celebration Recognizes Outstanding UNH Educators

Every year, a chosen few of UNH’s outstanding faculty members from each college and school receive Faculty Excellence Awards in recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service. University-wide awards recognize public service, research, teaching and engagement. The 2025 award... Read More

Recent Stories

  • Karen Jin and Brianna Smith lead students through a robotics activity
    - Filling the STEM Pipeline
    Three sessions of UNH Tech Camp provided the opportunity to build and launch model rockets at Boulder Field on the UNH campus. More than 150 students... Read More
  • UNH Project SMART participants launching scientific balloon
    - Riding High
    Project SMART high school students steady their scientific balloon as it fills with helium prior to launch. (Photo: Devin Thomas, University of British Columbia) Near space is... Read More
  • Peg Whittemore '46 - UNH chemistry alum
    - Strong Bonds
    Margaret “Peg” Whittemore found chemistry at Portsmouth High School. It was 1941, her senior year, and she had just moved to New Hampshire from Newton, Mass. Two things helped... Read More
  • UNH/Nasa Launch Mission March 2015
    - Inquiring Minds
        The Big Burp Theory Geologists drill for climate clues About 55 million years ago, the Earth burped up a massive release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — an amount... Read More
  • UNH graduate Ian Gagnon
    - Alternative Energy
    Ian Gagnon Last November, the presidents of China and the U.S. forged a commitment to reduce fossil fuel emissions. Other governments across the world are investing billions in... Read More
  • Adam Wong
    - From Pokémon to the Real Deal
    Adam Wong’s very first pair of dog tags had Pokémon on them. He doesn’t remember how old he was, just that he wanted to be a soldier someday. That was always the game he and his... Read More
  • A (Nuclear) Force To Be Reckoned With
    - A (Nuclear) Force To Be Reckoned With
    UNH physicist Patricia Solvignon has received a prestigious Early Career Research Program grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. Solvignon, an assistant professor of physics,... Read More
  • May-Win Thein
    - May-Win Thein: Focusing on Learning, Not Fundraising
    The reason associate professor of mechanical engineering May-Win Thein gives back to UNH is simple: She wants her students to be studying, learning, experimenting and researching... Read More
  • UNH engineering student and president of the UNH chapter of the National Society for Black Engineers Siddharth Nigam at Greenland Central School
    - Spreading Their Passion for STEM
      The UNH chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers is on a mission to, among other ideals, promote its members’ involvement in the community. So when the nearby... Read More
  • Ph.D. Student Receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
    - Ph.D. Student Receives National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
    Meagan Wengrove ‘10, a Ph.D. student in ocean engineering from Arvada, Colorado, has received a prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship... Read More