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Fun on Wheels with Northeast Passage
What’s a gym class with no running, skipping, jumping, or even walking? -
Alumni Association Throws Support Behind Manchester STEM Efforts
The Board of Directors of the University of New Hampshire Alumni Association recently voted to provide $25,000 toward the construction of the STEM Discovery Lab in UNH Manchester’s new space in the... -
Organic Garden Club
The university’s Organic Garden Club is harvesting fruits and vegetables daily. Check out their market Fridays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. outside the library in the Murkland Quad or learn about online... -
Smyth Summer Music Series
This summer, UNH Manchester will host six musical events for kids. The events are free and open to the public, thanks to the generous support of the Frederick Smyth Trust. All of the music events... -
Learn More About the New Business College Building
Learn more about the new business school building and how Peter T. Paul's donation made it happen. READ MORE Set in Stone: Masons’ Skills Shine in Paul College Wall -
LunaCats Rocket to Third Place in NASA Competition
The 2013 UNH LunaCats team at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. L-R: Front row: James Clifford, Jonathan Shepard, Anthony Edmonds, Caleigh MacPherson, Jonathan Wilson; back row: Timothy Gerade,... -
Smooth Path From Great Bay CC to Paul College
Great Bay Community College (GBCC) President Wildolfo Arvelo (left) and UNH President Mark Huddleston make it official, signing an articulation agreement that will allow qualified students to... -
The Yin and Yang of Coastal Carbon
UNH carbon dioxide sentinel buoy off Appledore Island after January 2013 Nor'easter. Photo by Shawn Shellito, UNH-EOS. Back in the spring of 2004, when the Center for Coastal Ocean Observing and... -
One Potato, Two Potato, Sea Potato
University of New Hampshire graduate student Hannah Traggis holds Colpomenia peregrina found at Fort Stark in New Castle in April 2012. Credit: Hannah Traggis There’s a new seaweed in town, a brown,... -
Life of Inspiration
Richard Whoriskey (front, fourth from left) with Veterans of Foreign Wars in front of Hamilton Smith Hall on Armistice Day, in 1921. -
Renovations Expand, Brighten Athletic Training Room
Two floors below the main entrance to the Field House, on the side of the building facing the southeast curve of the Reggie Atkins track, the athletic training room is a pivotal piece of the Wildcat... -
Upstream Impact
Students from the Biotechnology Program at Dover High School visited the UNH campus to learn about graduate level research. The visit was organized by the UNH Women in Science Group. -
Alums Make Connections in NYC
Close to 80 alums who call New York City home gathered on the rooftop deck of the Gansevoort Meatpacking Hotel last week to connect with each other as well as get a quick update on the happenings at... -
Tablet Computer Stand Earns University’s First Design Patent
Therese Willkomm, an assistant professor of occupational therapy at UNH and director of ATinNH, a statewide assistive technology program housed at UNH’s Institute on Disability. (Credit: UNH... -
Math Lecturer Hits Prime Time
Tom Zhang, lecturer in mathematics at the University of New Hampshire A new proof by University of New Hampshire mathematician Yitang “Tom” Zhang is being heralded as a breakthrough in the quest to... -
Inquiry Journal Features Student Research
UNH has long prided itself on graduating students who have significant research experience. In 2005, a generous gift from philanthropist Dana Hamel made it possible for the university to launch the... -
Graduation Was a Family Affair for UNH Mother-Daughter Team
Trisha Lindstrum (l) and her mother, Nancy Sauter, received their degrees from the University of New Hampshire Saturday, May 18, 2013. Nancy Sauter spent four years at the University of New Hampshire... -
Big Wins
As the only team ever to lay claim to an NCAA title, women’s lacrosse has long been a point of pride for the UNH Athletics community. But until recently, it was also one of the only UNH athletic... -
Precision Racing Team Prevails at International Competition
It’s a tale as old as David and Goliath, one that extols the flinty New Hampshire virtues of thrift and resourcefulness: A scrappy, underfunded team prevails against much more resourced competitors... -
He Changed How Children Are Taught to Write
Thomas Newkirk, professor of English at the University of New Hampshire Photo by Perry Smith, UNH Photographic Services -
Engineering and Ballet Equal Balance for UNH Senior
Brian Gray spent months working on his senior capstone project, helping design a rocket whose technology would, in the event of a disaster, produce a temporary Internet network. He then traveled to... -
From Manchester to the Moon
Josh Chabot '13 and his adviser, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering May-Win Thein, pose with the fruit of three years' labor: a tabletop NASA satellite simulator that will be used to... -
Meet Five UNH Life Savers
Catie Perrella '11 Photo by Lisa Nugent The National Marrow Donor Program lists nearly 10 million people on its “Be the Match” registry. One in 20,000 of those will have the right makeup to help... -
IBEX: The Little Satellite That Could
This image shows the nearest interstellar gas clouds around the solar system, including the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC) and G Cloud, along with positions of neighboring stars in the plane of our... -
Wildcat Work
With bronze sculptures, green is not always good. Photo by Perry Smith, UNH Photographic Services. On a busy Friday afternoon, Jameson Copp ’09 is studying the wildcat sculpture in front of the... -
Chamber Singers Will Compete in Elite German Competition
The UNH Chamber Singers will present its tour program in a special pre-departure performance Monday, May 13, 2013, at 8 p.m. in the Dover City Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. The... -
Graduate Students Win Prestigious Fellowships
NSF Fellowship graduate student Nancy Fernades studying epigenetics in a lab at Gregg Hall -
Love That Dirty Water
Students from Oyster River Middle School conduct water quality testing at several points on campus and then analyzed their samples. The event was part of the NH EPSCoR Ecosystems and... -
Relay for Life Marks 10 Years at UNH
Senior Sarah Maskwa (4th from the left) with some of the 1,250 UNH Relay for Life participants who together raised more than $130,000 to fight cancer. Sarah Maskwa has the same bad reason to... -
Big Things Have Small Beginnings
Students from UNH and Yeshiva University convene at Brookhaven National Laboratory to study the role of nanocatalysts in the creation of green energy. -
“Create Your Own Story” Celebrates 10 Years of Sharing
The initiative launched by Residential Life has been highlighting the success stories of 10 students each year since 2004. -
A "Gate City" Welcome
A grant-funded educational partnership with UNH and the Nashua school district opens doors for teachers and their students who are learning English. -
On Today's Docket: Opportunity
This year’s Concord interns join N.H. Senate President Peter Bragdon in the Senate Chamber. Left to right: Dan Zotos ’14, Erin Ryan ’13, Bragdon, Tyler Clark ’13, Steve Naffah ’13. VIEW SLIDESHOW... -
Sixth Graders Learn It Takes “Courage to Care”
On an early April day that finds rural New Hampshire still lingering between snowbanks and mud puddles, 20 sixth-graders stand in a tight circle outside the Barnstead Elementary School, crowding... -
Thinking on Her Feet
All student-athletes learn to balance the dual demands of academics and competition, but few do it in as dramatic fashion as Elise Beattie ’14 did earlier this year. -
Student Research Engages the Community
From arts and education to saving the region’s cod fishery, undergraduate research at UNH is on display at the 2013 UNH Undergraduate Research Conference (April 12-27), where a focus on issues of... -
Studying the Impact of Strength-Training on Older Adults
The Grimes Family Fund is helping a student-faculty team to explore the effectiveness of two distinct strength-training regimens on older adults. The team hopes to present their findings nationally. -
All about Horses
Equine Program seniors (from left) Emily Hodgman, Adele Breitholtz, Katherine Foley, and Alyssa Milano, prepare Reese, the "Visible Horse," for a presentation at the "Equine Educational Day" on... -
UNH in the News
Senior Cameron Lyle decided to donate bone marrow, a decision that abruptly ends his collegiate athletic career but one that he calls a "no brainer." ABC News: University of New Hampshire Athlete... -
Independence Day
From left: Dan Shine, Alyssa LeBlanc, Colton Huelle, Elise Williams and Nicholas Iannotti. -
Kinesiology Major is Washington, D.C. Bound
Charlotte Slate doesn’t have a political background; her future plans after graduating UNH involve physical therapy school. But a course she’s taking in foreign policy piqued her interest. She became... -
UNH Mobile App Now Available For iPhone, iPad
To download the app, visit the App Store for your iOS device, or Google Play for your Android, and search for "UNH Mobile." -
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UNH Announces 2013 Granite State Award and Honorary Degree Recipients
For their significant contributions to the state and its people, the Running Nuns from the St. Charles Children’s Home in Rochester, and New Hampshire storyteller Fritz Wetherbee will receive UNH's... -
A Cut Above
Campus and community proudly celebrate the official opening of the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics. -
No Soldier Left Behind
If you’re a fan of the National Geographic television series Inside Combat Rescue, you've probably been captivated by the exploits of the show’s stars, U.S. Air Force Capt. Eric Hansen '07 and his... -
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Nutritional Scientist Wins National Honor
"I believe that in a country that produces so much food all Americans should have access to a healthy diet." --Joanne Burke, director of the Dietetic Internship at UNH At a time when the United... -
Digging It
Archeology students are busily at work unearthing the site of the original train depot that used to be on the great lawn near Morrill Hall until it was moved after a tragic 1905 train accident.
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