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Illustration of two spheres, in shades of purple and pink, that represent a neutron star as seen from Earth.

Neutron Star Insights Move from Theoretical to Data-Driven

Neutron stars — dead stars with a mass of up to two times our Sun squeezed into a ball the size of New Hampshire’s coastline — are among the densest objects in the universe. The composition of their interior holds clues to the expansion of the universe and the creation of black holes. Ph.D.... Read More

Recent Stories

  • Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences Melda Ormeci Matoglu
    - Optimizing Capacity for Demand
    Airline scheduling consists of major planning challenges. Integrating them into a monthly unified system can frustrate the best of planners.  Read More
  • Paul College Associate Dean Luciana Echazú
    - New Paul College Associate Dean For Undergraduate Education Named
    Luciana Echazú has joined the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics as the new associate dean for undergraduate education.  Read More
  • Nadine Petty
    - The Work Begins With Us
    Nadine Petty is UNH’s new chief diversity officer and associate vice president for community, equity and diversity. She comes to us from the University of Iowa where she was the... Read More
  • Gulf of Maine
    - Fish Futures
    The 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
  • “Yours For The Building”
    - “Yours For The Building”
    “For more than 30 years, John Lewis has had an unwavering commitment to the civil rights movement,” then-UNH President Dale Nitzschke said in his 1994 introduction of that year’s... Read More
  • Fifth-grade social studies teachers at Oyster River Middle School
    - Concord Monitor: Teachers Work to Broaden History Classes
    After participating in a book discussion led by NH Listens, a group of public school teachers are working to broaden history lessons. Kyra Dulmage is part of a fifth-grade team... Read More
  • A Call to Educators: Uplifting Our Black Youth
    - A Call to Educators: Uplifting Our Black Youth
    Angelina Gillispie ’20, a recent graduate of the English teaching program at UNH Manchester, published an essay about her experience with the Black Lives Matter rallies and vigils... Read More
  • Paul College Professor of Economics Ju-Chin Huang
    - The Cost of Clean Air
    How can you put a price tag on the benefits of cleaning up the air, shoring up diminishing water supplies, or producing less garbage? Read More
  • Early Activism
    - Early Activism
    Ronelle Tshiela ’21 has a friend who never drives with anything in his pockets. He keeps his license and registration on the dashboard so if he gets stopped by the police he doesn... Read More
  • Finding 400 Seats
    - Finding 400 Seats
    On June 11, for the first time since the Civil War, the NH House of Representatives met outside of the State House, holding its session at UNH’s Whittemore Center, one of the few... Read More