College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
UNH'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, thanks to a major new grant from the National Science Foundation. Harish Vashisth, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the... Read More
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08/26/25UNH Launches Initiative to Improve Outcomes for STEM Ph.D. Students
UNH is one of 10 graduate schools nationwide to partner in a National Science Foundation grant aimed at improving outcomes for STEM Ph.D. students. -
08/26/25In Memoriam: Eric Lund
Eric Lund, a UNH research scientist who recently passed away, is being remembered as a dedicated space scientist and valued colleague. -
08/19/25UNH Researcher Joins $152M Project to Advance AI for Scientific Research
Samuel Carton, assistant professor of computer science, in a co-principal investigator on a $152 million partnership between the National Science... -
08/11/25UNH Researchers Help Find WWII Shipwrecks in Solomon Islands
Researchers from UNH's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping helped find more than a dozen World War II shipwrecks in the Solomon Islands.
Recent Stories
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09/12/13 - Dazzling DiscoveriesThe Van Allen Probes elliptical orbits will range in altitude from 373 to 23,000 miles. Artist's rendering courtesy of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory One year after... Read More -
09/05/13 - Author Dava Sobel Headlines New England Fall Astronomy Festival at UNH Sept. 13-14Award-winning author and playwright Dava Sobel will kick off the third New England Fall Astronomy Festival at the University of New Hampshire Friday, Sept. 13, 2013.... Read More -
08/08/13 - Looking for a Learning MomentMeet Abby Hatfield, physical science teacher and science department chair at Newmarket High School, and Matt Endrizzi, science teacher at St. Thomas Aquinas High School. Matt and... Read More -
08/08/13 - Little Green AppledoreOn an island seven miles off the New Hampshire coastline in the midst of one of the soggiest summers in memory, worrying about enough water seems counter-productive. But for... Read More -
08/08/13 - Smart Students Study Cutting-edge Science with Project SmartIn the crowded atrium of Morse Hall, large posters mounted on easels described cutting-edge science ranging from genetically engineered plants to 3-D bio-printing to an ultra-low... Read More -
08/08/13 - Seven Hundred Feet Down, a Thousand Years BackUNH, Dartmouth College, UMaine ice core drill site on the Mt. Hunter plateau in Denali National Park, Alaska. The drill site is in the middle of the photograph, just left of the... Read More -
07/25/13 - Heavenly Science: Student Balloons Video Earth Below, Space AboveOn Thursday, July 17, 2013, high school students and their University of New Hampshire Project SMART mentors successfully flew twin weather balloons that carried... Read More -
06/13/13 - LunaCats Rocket to Third Place in NASA CompetitionThe 2013 UNH LunaCats team at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. L-R: Front row: James Clifford, Jonathan Shepard, Anthony Edmonds, Caleigh MacPherson, Jonathan Wilson; back row... Read More -
05/23/13 - Math Lecturer Hits Prime TimeTom Zhang, lecturer in mathematics at the University of New Hampshire A new proof by University of New Hampshire mathematician Yitang “Tom” Zhang is being heralded as a... Read More -
05/16/13 - Engineering and Ballet Equal Balance for UNH SeniorBrian Gray spent months working on his senior capstone project, helping design a rocket whose technology would, in the event of a disaster, produce a temporary Internet network.... Read More