A New Staple for Graduate Research

For the second year running, the annual Graduate Research Conference (GRC) was held virtually, with some exciting updates.

2021-22 DYF Recipients Honored

The 2021-2022 recipients of the prestigious Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF) award were honored during the recent Graduate Student Appreciation Week on a Zoom celebration. The DYF is a very...

Going Beyond the Border

It started with a conversation: Shantel Palacio and Nathan Harris, two students in the Ph.D. Education program were troubled by the hesitation they saw in classes when confronting diversity and race...

3MT Alumni—Where Are They Now?

Drummond Biles and Meagan Wengrove are not only recent PhD graduates from UNH, but they are also soon to be married. Biles, PhD mechanical engineering, serves as a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia...

Bringing the Writing Retreat Home

This January, 63 graduate students gathered on Zoom for a virtual edition of the Graduate School’s 7th annual Winter Writing Retreat.

Writing Retreat Goes Digital

Zoom breakout rooms took the place of physical spaces in donor-sponsored annual event for writing graduate students.

Reading, Responding, and Witnessing

Eden Wales Freedman, a 2014 graduate from UNH’s PhD English program, has been awarded the 2020 Eudora Welty prize for her recent book, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender,...

Double Win

Jordan Pierce, a master’s student in UNH’s Oceanography program, has just won two notable awards at the 2020 OCEANS Conference—Gulf Coast Division.

So Be A Writer

With a fellowship, MFA alumna Rose Whitmore has a novel on the horizon.

Will Clyde Associate Dean

Will Clyde, a long-standing professor in the UNH Earth sciences department, has recently been appointed associate dean of the UNH graduate school.

STAF Spotlight: Getting Fungi to the Trees

If you were to investigate ways to support forest health, where would you look? The trees? Animals? Soil?

STAF Spotlight: Scanning for Smoke

I’m perched in Banner Mt. Lookout sixty feet above the ground. Five miles to the west, the Jones Fire tears through brush and timber. Smoke billows up thick and white, then a bruised purple-brown as...

STAF Spotlight: At the Edge of Hookup Culture

‘Hookup culture’—broadly defined as a culture that accepts and encourages uncommitted sexual encounters between consenting individuals—is a prominent part of life on college campuses, and the...

STAF Spotlight: The Secret is in Making Connections

How do you convince an undergraduate that a mandatory course is worth taking beyond the requirements for their major?

No Till, No Problem

Natalie Lounsbury, a graduate student studying agroecology in UNH’s Natural Resources and Earth System Sciences Ph.D. program, has received a 2020 Switzer Fellowship. 

Living Laboratory

Anna Lowien, a masters student in the natural resources department, was recently awarded an inaugural

A Cyber Success

The UNH Graduate Research Conference (GRC) has grown steadily every year since its inception in 2002. What began as a modest showcase of graduate research has become a week-long interdisciplinary...

Say It Again—This Time to the Camera

The University of New Hampshire’s fifth annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition was Monday, April 27 via Zoom. While traditionally this event has been an in-person, multi-round series, the UNH...

It's Instrumental

The University Instrumentation Center hosts technology to advance research on campus and off

Years of Research in 3 Minutes: Can You Do It?

Say you’re at a family reunion, and a grandparent asks about your graduate school research. Excited to have a willing ear, you dive headfirst into the deep end, speeding through a catalogue of niche...

Record Turnout for the Winter Writing Retreat

This January, a record turnout of 70 graduate students gathered for the Graduate School’s annual Winter Writing Retreat.

The Dissertation: Nobody Gets Here Alone

The dissertation. A four-syllable word that signifies years of classes, research, field work, and of course, writing. From the outside, this can seem like a pretty daunting task, especially for an...

Reclaiming STEM: East Coast Edition

“The day was one of excitement, vulnerability, and empowerment with over 70 participants and speakers,” said Tamara Marcus, Ph.D. student in UNH’s Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science program...

Finding Language for Silence

An MFA writing student is travelling to Japan on a STAF award.

What Makes for a Successful Researcher?

Being a successful researcher involves much more than just conducting research—a researcher must also be a strong communicator, a participant in the greater scientific community, a motivated team...

So Much To Do, So Little Time

UNH master's student relies on graduate student resources to finish his thesis.

From Sweden to New England: Measuring GHG Emissions in Wetlands

Paige Clarizia, a graduate student in UNH’s department of Earth sciences and recipient of UNH’s Summer Teaching Award Fellowship, is spending her summer collecting data on greenhouse gas emissions...

UNH Celebrates Largest Ever Class of Doctoral Graduates

The Graduate School held its annual Doctoral Luncheon the day before commencement, but this year, there was yet another reason to celebrate: it was the largest ever class of doctoral graduates. Of...

Living Bridge Panel a Sold-Out Success

UNH students and faculty gathered with the local Portsmouth community for a special evening in honor of the Living Bridge Project.