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  • doris kearns goodwin
    - UNH Hosts World-Renowned Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Sept. 29
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak as part of the Rutman Distinguished Lecture Series on the American Presidency at the University of New Hampshire... Read More
  • laura van beaver
    - Science Can Be Slow – Like Brewing a Good Cup of Tea
    Laura Van Beaver makes notes about her research on how to engineer a better cup of decaffeinated tea. Tea drinkers will tell you it can be hard to find a really good... Read More
  • underwater mountain,
    - There’s a Mount on the Bottom of the Sea
    Where on Earth could a 3,000-foot mountain hide? On the bottom of the sea – an area about which we know less than the surface of the Moon. That’s where UNH scientists on a... Read More
  • erika moretti with hand in marine tank
    - How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Studying Crustaceans in Great Bay
    Last summer, Erika Moretti ’15 was on a lobster boat on Great Bay helping a UNH researcher pull lobster traps for an annual survey when they found a blue crab in one of the pots.... Read More
  • student studying carpenter bees
    - A Bee on the Brink
    What’s going on inside your rose stems might surprise you. Open one up and you might find an insect, or two or three, in various stages of growth, nestled within the walls. The... Read More
  • Ryan Cassotto in Greenland
    - Glacial Race
    Courtesy Photo It only sounds like a joke: When the world’s fastest-moving glacier sped up in the summer of 2012 – suddenly surging from Greenland’s west coast at four times its... Read More
  • project smart students releasing science balloon
    - Scientific Sojourn
    They found it at the edge of a Maine forest near a cornfield off a path called Potato Road. A distinctive orange hull, intact. Before it fell to the ground, it traveled along the... Read More
  • Winnacunnet High students Jenna Roy and Olivia Bessemer
    - Teens Connect With... Mutant Bacteria?!
    Winnacunnet High students Jenna Roy, left, and Olivia Bessemer, right, examine bacteria they have grown for signs that the cells have mutated and evolved.  The biology labs at... Read More
  • UNH Bee Research
    - UNH Bee Research
    If you build it, will they come? The University of New Hampshire's Sandra Rehan shows us her "bee hotel" and explains its role in attracting native pollinators. The research is... Read More
  • Are Toxins Escaping our Lakes?
    - Are Toxins Escaping our Lakes?
    Lake closures in the hot summer months are often caused by cyanobacteria blooms, also know as harmful algae blooms, which release toxins that may be linked to such diseases as ALS... Read More