News & Events Calendar

Our annual Sociology Graduation Ceremony will be held on Friday, May 17th.  This ... Read Full Story >

Jessica LeBlanc ’11 published “Senegal and Guinea: A Comparative Study of Democratic Success and Failure,” in the National Honors Society’s Spring 2011 Sigma Iota Rho Journal of International Relations.

University of New Hampshire researchers have found that residents of Louisiana and Florida most acutely and directly affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history -- said they have changed their views on other environmental issues as a result of the spill.

Michele Dillon and colleagues published new study yesterday.

Sociology Professor Sharyn Potter will present at the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summit in Washington, D.C.

Brendan Poelaert was severely wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up where Poelaert and other Marines were protecting civilians at a police recruiting station in Iraq. Now a sociology major at UNH, Poelaert is among a growing number of veterans returning to college.

UNH’s nationally and internationally recognized sexual and relationship violence prevention social marketing campaign, the Know Your Power Bystander Social Marketing Campaign, has been adopted by the University of California at Merced.

Jasmin Washington, who received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in May 2011, has been named one of Liberal Arts five 2011 Fellows.   

A three-year NSF grant funds research on how adolescents learn to understand the law.

Join us for a premiere of the film Killing Us Softly 4:Advertising’s Image of Women. Showing on Saturday, Nov. 6 in Horton basement, Room 4 at 11 a.m. FREE!

UNH Professors Sharyn Potter, Victoria Banyard and Robert Eckstein traveled to Washington on September 22, 2010 to brief White House officials on their work involving Violence against women.  

Stephanie Bramlett and Jennifer Esala, Sociology graduate students, are the recipients of a Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2010-11 offered by the UNH Graduate School.