Growing True Leaders

A recent gift to New Hampshire 4-H from an anonymous donor has provided new learning opportunities.

Ready for the Future

Young engineers drove their underwater vehicles at the UNH pool during this year's Seacoast SeaPerch regional competition.

Blue and White and Green All Over

Take a walk through campus and it’s easy to get lost in UNH’s natural beauty. Tree-lined sidewalks border burbling streams and wander over gently rolling hills and past jutting rocks. In the silence...

Farm to Future

Exploring the link between food and sustainability.

New Angles on Old Problems

Prof. Tom Haines examines questions about our present industrial world and a sustainable future in “Walking to the Sun.”

A Carbon-Neutral Future

Ask Cameron Wake to describe UNH’s response to reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and one word comes to mind: aggressive. WildCAP, the university’s climate action plan, is “considerably more...

King of the Court

Bert Myer ’67 fell in love with croquet in 1958 at an annual Labor Day backyard croquet tournament in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The game looks deceptively simple — use a wooden mallet to whack a...

In Honor of His Grandmother

David Sharkey's next stop is a high shool in Madrid, Spain.

Answering the Siren Song

Hannah Vagos '17 is teaching at the UNH ESL Institute before heading to Madrid, Spain, to teach this fall.

Minding the Gap

Jordan Mrvos '17 tackles poverty at a local nonprofit.

Fellows Rising

Five student fellows look back on their college careers as they move surely into their futures.

How Now Wildcats

In Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” Duke Orsino famously says, “If music be the food of love, play on.” It’s a sentiment that could be applied to a collaboration between two English department classes...

Indigenous New Hampshire

When it comes to telling the stories of indigenous people in New Hampshire, the “official” history — found on historical site markers, in textbooks and on public murals, among other places — only...

What’s all the HYPE?

Intro to Your Future

When Jennifer Drohan ’20 began her first semester at UNH last fall, she was ready to study anything and everything. The only problem, she says, was choosing one subject to focus on.

Keeping Kids Safe

For decades, the Crimes against Children Research Center has worked tirelessly to keep children safe.

Juvenile Justice?

Though well-intentioned, the laws targeting sex offenders have done little to achieve the intended effect of making children safer, according to sociology graduate student Kei Saito.

The Buzz on Bees

Buzzing bees are one of the surest signs of spring, but that seasonal soundtrack is increasingly in danger.

Extra Credit

Inspiration’s in the air early on a Thursday morning at the East Rochester School. The fifth graders in Jenna Buinicky’s weekly technology class are already excited—there’s just one more day until...

Bigger and Better

The expanded Hamel Rec center emphasizes fitness and wellbeing.

All in the Chemistry

It was a record-setting season for the America East champs women’s basketball team.

Excellence in Ecology

UNH ranks second nationally in ecological research, scholarship.

Time Traveling with Cinderella

On a Tuesday afternoon at Dover Middle School, dinosaurs roamed the auditorium. 

Following Up with Sustainability Fellows

UNH Today follows up with a couple of former Sustainability Institute fellows in this article. 

Towering Sounds

When it comes to campus traditions, there are few more familiar than the songs that toll from the Thompson Hall tower every morning at 11.

Inspired by the Past

A history major immerses herself in the stories of a 300-year-old town.

Seeing Threads

Nancy Targett is passionate about connecting people and ideas. It’s a philosophy that guided her at the University of Delaware, where she joined the faculty in 1984 and was named dean of its College...

Helping Laconia Bloom

Tate Aldrich '08 has a simple life philosophy: Bloom where you're planted. That perspective is among the reasons that, when he was offered a teaching job at Laconia High School, where he had been a...

A Cut Above

When Kendall Kunelius ’15 arrived at UNH in 2011, her path was clear. A 10-year 4-Her and the devoted owner of a pony named Winsome, Kunelius planned to major in equine management, graduate, and...

Choosing the Right Wine

The wine you serve at your holiday table is complex not just in flavor but in the blend of political, economic and social factors that bring it to your home.

Stressed Out and Vulnerable

Megan Duranko '17 and professor Sergios Charntikov discuss research data.

Honoring Those Who Serve

UNH alumni were inducted into the ROTC Hall of Fame. For the newest inductees into the UNH ROTC’s Alumni Hall of Fame, the university played a pivotal role in their lives and careers.

Mapping History

The historic Carrigain map goes on view in Dimond Library on November 16.

A Different Kind of Ambassador

CEPS STEMbassadors are bringing STEM education to life in Granite State schools.

Electability

Four-decade "Mayoralty" tradition made "mayors" of Durham.

UNH Alumnus Named New Hampshire Teacher of the Year

When Tate Aldrich '08 graduated from UNH, he knew exactly where he wanted to go to begin his teaching career: back to his hometown of Laconia. “I wanted to give back to my community,” he says. “I had...

Crunching Data for Driver Safety

Graduate student Christopher Rogers ’17G and other student interns are using Lean Six Sigma principles to help make roadways safer.

A Little Night Music

Editor's note: After this article was published, the Wind Symphony premiered "Old Ben's Farm" at the Whittemore Center Arena before a full crowd assembled to usher in UNH's 150th year on Sept. 30....

Blue and White Makes Green

When it comes to sustainability, it’s not easy being green. It takes a “long-term, enduring commitment,” according to Tom Kelly, chief sustainability officer and founding executive director of UNH's ...

Waste Not, Want Not

Combating the Crisis

Four years ago, if you had asked Dr. Thomas Sherman, a practicing gastroenterologist and a representative in the New Hampshire Legislature, if he’d eventually have a part in fighting the opioid...

Natural Wonder

Sandra Waddell Martin ’62 ’68G remembers her neighborhood mail carrier coming to the door of her parents’ house in Winthrop, Massachusetts, one day in 1954. Martin was just 13, but her career as a...

Making Connections

As universities evolve, so do alumni associations. How is the UNH Alumni Association’s role changing?

UNH Police Gain Reaccreditation

The University of New Hampshire Police Department has been reaccredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.

Doubling Down on Service

Samantha Howard ’16 is dedicated to service. It’s a passion that guided her during her years at UNH, and now, it’s setting the course for her future.

UNH Social Work Program Ranked Eighth in Nation

The university’s social work program in the College of Health and Human Services has long attracted top students and faculty. But now, it’s getting some national recognition.

Serendipity’s Springboard

Imagine this: It’s a Sunday night and you’re at home. You’ve whittled your to-do list down to one item — all that’s left to do is clean up the dinner dishes. You load the dishwasher and, pleased with...

Humanities in the Digital Age: Collaboration is at the heart of a range of projects that explore the digital humanities landscape

When Scott Weintraub thinks about digital humanities, he thinks of conversations — and, sometimes, trees.

Coming Full Circle

It was a few days before the 1992 presidential election, and Mike Vlacich ’95, a volunteer on Bill Clinton’s first campaign, needed $25 to rent a car. Vlacich and a friend planned to drive around the...

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