College of Life Sciences & Agriculture
UNH Scientists Receive $1M to Support Critical Soil Sustainability Research
University of New Hampshire scientists have received three grants totaling $1 million that will support research addressing urgent questions in soil sustainability and, ultimately, resilient food production in New Hampshire and beyond. The projects range from using state-of-the-art instrumentation... Read MoreAlso in UNH Today...
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09/09/21Saving the Shea
An international team of researchers led by UNH has sequenced the shea tree’s genome, providing a valuable resource for the strategic development of... -
09/01/21New Hampshire is Becoming More Diverse, with Children at the Forefront
New Hampshire is becoming a more diverse state, with children at the forefront of the demographic changes in the past decade, according to a new... -
08/31/21Marsh March
Research in salt marshes in Rowley, Mass., explores solutions to long-ago created ditches, which increase flooding from sea level rise. -
08/23/21UNH Scientists Receive $650,000 Grant to Study Genetics of Costly Dairy Cattle Disease
Researchers at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell...
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08/10/20 - No Till, No ProblemNatalie Lounsbury, a graduate student studying agroecology in UNH’s Natural Resources and Earth System Sciences Ph.D. program, has received a 2020 Switzer Fellowship. Read More -
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08/04/20 - Fish FuturesThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently awarded a team lead by a UNH scientist more than half a million dollars to study how warming waters and migrating fish... Read More -
07/31/20 - Environmental JusticeSimone Chapman ’20G, a master’s student in environmental conservation at UNH, has received a Science Policy Fellowship from the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of... Read More -
07/31/20 - Living LaboratoryAnna Lowien, a masters student in the natural resources department, was recently awarded an inaugural Margaret A. Davidson Graduate Fellowship through the National Oceanic and... Read More -
07/27/20 - UNH Researchers Identify More Effective Method to Delineate Tree Crowns Using Unmanned Aerial ImageryIn a new study, University of New Hampshire researchers have concluded that when assessing forest imagery collected by unmanned aerial systems, an alternative method of... Read More -
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07/13/20 - U.S. Population Growth Slows, but Diversity GrowsIn 2019, the U.S. population grew at the slowest rate in a century because of fewer births, more deaths, and less immigration. Yet even as fertility rates diminished regardless of... Read More -
07/09/20 - The Joy of SpecsA new study from UNH discovered a better way to count sperm in lobster that could help researchers of any animal species understand this key aspect of species survival. Read More