NASA Administrator, Sen. Shaheen Visit UNH's Space Science Center

UNH welcomed NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to campus for a visit June 27, shining a spotlight on UNH’s leading heliophysics program and the continued strength of a...

Five Recent UNH Grads Land Fulbright Offers

Fulbright grants will send four recent UNH graduates to Scotland, Germany, Mexico and Indonesia in the coming months in order to pursue English teaching, research or graduate study work.

Friends, Classmates Return to Celebrate Reunion 2023

UNH held its annual reunion celebration June 2-4, welcoming more than 200 people to campus for a full weekend of festivities. This year's reunion celebrated the classes of 1963, 1968 and 1973, as...

Show Your Wildcat Pride and Receive a UNH Hat

For a limited time (through June 30) with your gift of $25 or more to the University of New Hampshire, you can receive a Wildcat hat as a special thank you!

UNH Celebrates More Than 3,000 Grads at Commencement

The University of New Hampshire sent off more than 3,000 graduates at seven commencement ceremonies this year, hosting the celebrations inside the Whittemore Center over a festive weekend May 19-21.

Embrace NH Bus Tour Takes UNH Leaders to Manchester

UNH leaders left the post-commencement quiet of campus and spent a full day in New Hampshire’s largest city Wednesday, visiting Manchester to hear the ways in which university partnerships are making...

For Young Adults, Heart Health Begins with Sleep

NHAES study: Poor sleep harms metabolism in emerging adults; consistently oversleeping also has adverse effects.

NSF Director, Sen. Shaheen Tour UNH Facilities, Engage with Students

UNH welcomed Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen for a visit Friday, May 12, showcasing some of the research partnerships rooted...

Beauregard Center Debuts ‘Celebration of Achievement and Excellence’

The Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom at UNH unveiled a reimagined year-end event with the debut of its Celebration of Achievement and Excellence on May 10, recognizing...

Bold Ideas, Better Outcomes

Scientific discoveries made by biomedical and bioengineering researchers at UNH over the past five years are transforming how a range of complex health conditions — from cancer and chronic wounds to...

UNH To Welcome Highest-Achieving Undergrad Class Ever

With the May 1 national deposit deadline passed, the University of New Hampshire’s Durham campus is set to welcome its highest-achieving incoming undergraduate class ever this fall, a significant...

Awards Honor Innovation and Research at UNH

UNHInnovation presented its 2022 Innovator of the Year award to Christine Shea and Kate Siler for IncludeU; and its 2023 award to Jeffrey Halpern for developing and patenting biosensors.

URC Showcases Research From More Than 1,500 Students

More than 1,500 students made presentations during this year’s Undergraduate Research Conference (URC), one of the largest and most diverse events of its kind in the country and a signature annual...

Annual Graduate Research Conference Continues to Build Momentum

Last week, the annual Graduate Research Conference, or GRC, took place with oral presentations on Monday and poster presentations on Tuesday filling up three rooms in Holloway Commons. There were 54...

The 2023 Undergraduate Research Conference is Underway

UNH's annual Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) — one of the largest and most diverse conferences of its kind in the country — is officially underway, celebrating its 24th year with...

McGrath ’25 Named Hollings Scholarship Recipient

Kennedy McGrath ’25 was studying alongside the Pacific Ocean as part of UNH’s EcoQuest program in New Zealand when she received news she’d been chosen as a recipient of the NOAA Hollings Scholarship...

Weinberg Becomes UNH’s Seventh Truman Scholar

Jonathan Weinberg ’23 has been selected as a 2023 Truman Scholar, becoming the seventh UNH student to earn the distinction and the first ever from UNH Manchester.

Pride and Pancakes: Three Decades of Celebrating Inclusion

UNH’s annual Pride and Pancakes breakfast commemorated two significant milestone anniversaries Tuesday morning – the 30th year of the event and the 50th year since the founding of the Gay Students...

Hot Ticket: UNH, Amtrak Celebrate 1 Million Passenger Milestone

The Durham-UNH Amtrak station on the University of New Hampshire campus celebrated surpassing the 1 million passenger milestone Thursday, March 23, with the arrival of a Downeaster train, becoming...

Dana Hamel Gives $20M to Create Honors and Scholars College at UNH

The University of New Hampshire has announced the creation of the Hamel Honors and Scholars College, set to open in fall of 2024 following a $20 million gift from Dana Hamel.

UNH Announces 2023 Commencement Speakers

The University of New Hampshire will welcome eight speakers at its commencement ceremonies this May. Speakers will also be awarded honorary degrees. All of the ceremonies will take place between...

Embrace NH Tour Takes UNH Leaders into Granite State Communities

Members of UNH's senior leadership team set out on a tour last November that took them all over New Hampshire to meet with Granite Staters, exploring the ways UNH’s partnerships are making a...

It Runs in the Family: Pincince Household Sends Seven Siblings to UNH

Becca Pincince ’26 didn’t experience the brief period of anonymity most freshmen are granted during their first days on campus after she arrived last fall. Instead, numerous professors and other...

UNH Paul College becomes the highest ranked public business school in New England

The University of New Hampshire's  Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics  is officially the highest ranked public business school in New England. 

$1.26M Earmarked in Federal Budget for UNH’s NH Veterinary Diagnostic Lab

For more than five decades, the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NHVDL) at the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture has helped secure animal and public health by providing...

Fans Bring the Energy to White Out the Whitt

The UNH men's hockey team hosted rival Maine on Friday, Feb. 17 in a showdown that marked the return of White Out the Whitt for the first time in four years. The tradition of fans wearing white to...

Gilman Scholarships Send Eight Students Abroad

Eight UNH students will set out for global destinations this spring as recipients of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, immersing themselves in cultures and studying in locales as far...

UNH Dining Goes Cashless

UNH Dining has gone cashless, effective Jan. 1, 2023. Acceptable forms of payment at all dining halls and campus cafés now include Dining Dollars, Cat’s Cache, debit and credit cards and mobile...

Pathway to Paying Tribute

Campus trails and bridges named to honor Abenaki heritage.

50 Years and Counting

Because she did not stop, we are unstoppable. Join us in celebrating 50 years and counting of Title IX – and the athletes who showed up for nothing less than the next generation of Wildcats at the...

Celebrating Five Years of Increasing Access

In the face of rising tuition costs throughout the country, the University of New Hampshire is celebrating five years of making a college education more affordable for students in the Granite State,...

Bolstering Broadband

A UNH-based mapping agency will inventory statewide broadband coverage to identify underserved areas. 

UNH Leaders Hit the Road to Hear From N.H.

On a bus tour across New Hampshire early this month, UNH leaders covered more than 300 miles over two days to meet with Granite Staters, hear how UNH’s partnerships are working in their communities...

Honoring Veterans and ROTC Hall of Famers

The University of New Hampshire held its 24th annual Veterans Day and ROTC Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Scholarship Awards event Friday, Nov. 4, inducting three new members into the ROTC Hall...

Shipping Sounds

UNH researchers found no significant change in the U.S. continental shelf's underwater soundscape during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Healthy Food for All

How does food and nutrition insecurity affect physical, mental and social well-being? How does it vary by race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality?

We All Belong on the Island

Shoals Marine Laboratory has been awarded a 2022 Honorable Mention for Innovation for its Strategic Plan for Advancing Belonging.

UNH Again Earns 'Best Value' Status

The University of New Hampshire has been ranked the No. 1 best value public university in New England for the second consecutive year and is a top-10 best value public university in the country,...

National Lab Day

. U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen welcomed participants to UNH's National Lab Day.

Innovation is the center of online teaching at UNH

Ask people to describe “innovation” and their responses conjure up images of rare genius or a ground-breaking new standard. While these impressions ring true, innovation can also be found in the...

The Cod and the Tern

With new grants, UNH researchers will study how climate change in the Gulf of Maine is affecting species like the Atlantic cod and the common tern.

Saluting Faculty Excellence

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...

Meeting Great Bay History

A prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities grant will extend the work of the Great Bay Archaeological Survey to 72 K-12 teachers.

Moorhead Appointed President of CGS Regional Affiliate

Cari Moorhead, dean of the Graduate School at the University of New Hampshire, has been appointed president of the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS), a regional affiliate of the...

Watching War, From a World Away

In the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Olivia Babin, administrative coordinator in UNH’s languages, literatures and cultures department, couldn’t sleep. “All I did was text my family...

Time to Submit Commencement Nominations

UNH is accepting nominations for 2023 commencement speakers. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the university are invited to submit ideas.

Research Snapshot: Early Birds

UNH researchers study tidal marsh sparrows to understand how they're adapted to living in the harsh environment of salt marshes.

Being the Change

Sophia Bolduc ’23 enjoyed a rewarding internship experience with the Community Action Partnership of Strafford County this summer, gaining experience in marketing and communications and also visiting...

Words of Wildcat Wisdom

A new class of first-year students and their families will be arriving at UNH this weekend as students move onto campus for the start of the fall semester. So who better to ask for some words of...

Changed for the Better

Hannah Donahue ’22 may not, by her own admission,  have been quite ready to say goodbye to UNH in the days leading up to graduation this spring, but thanks to her time on campus she was more than...