Sustainability
UNH Positions Students, Businesses to Thrive in Wake of SEC Climate Disclosure Ruling
In March, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted the first-ever national climate disclosure rule, a decision signifying that publicly traded companies will be legally required to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and other climate risk factors for the first time. It’s a... Read More-
06/04/24
Grad Student Receives Prestigious Department of Energy Graduate Research Award
Charles Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry, has received a prestigious graduate research award from the U.S. Department of Energy. The funding... -
05/09/24
Wave of Innovation: Drift-RMT Takes Home Top Holloway Prize
A team specializing in engineering and business earned the $15,000 grand prize at the 36th Paul J. Holloway Prize Innovation to Market Competition. ... -
04/19/24
Internship Makes a Difference Close to Home
Skye Loto is passionate about businesses that focus on environmental and social good. When she was looking for an internship to help her grow her... -
04/16/24
10 Ways UNH is Helping to Save the Earth
Sustainability and a planet-friendly ethos have long been core UNH values. The university is home to the country’s first endowed Sustainability...
Recent Stories
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03/29/21 - Gaming Safe Drinking WaterWeiwei Mo, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER grant. Read More
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03/29/21 - Top PerformersA team of UNH engineering students was recently selected as a finalist in the prestigious U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® 2021 Design Challenge. The competition... Read More
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03/25/21 - People May Be Stressing Out NH’s BobcatsThe bobcat, New Hampshire’s official state wildcat and a critical contributor to the sustainability of the state's forest ecosystem, may be being stressed out by human activity in... Read More
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03/22/21 - Experiment Station Presents Specialty Syrup Research Field DayScientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station in the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture present the preliminary findings of the first assessment of sap... Read More
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01/06/21 - Q&A with Masami Dustin ‘21When you came to UNH had you planned on weaving in a focus on social innovation or sustainability into your major and why? I knew since my junior year of high school that I would... Read More
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12/29/20 - Using Business to Do GoodWhen Shuili Du was a doctoral student at Boston University, the academic field of marketing still focused on the marketing mix (i.e., product, price, promotion and channel... Read More
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12/23/20 - UNH Endowment Investing Goes GreenDid you know that as of July 30, 2020 UNH was ranked sixth among universities in the country for its sustainability practices, topped only by schools like Stanford University,... Read More
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12/11/20 - Introducing First-Year Students to Business EthicsEducated as an engineer and trained as philosopher, Betty Woodman spent many years in the corporate sector where she rose to the level of senior leadership and witnessed firsthand... Read More
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12/09/20 - Responsible Finance in Community DevelopmentMichael Swack describes himself as “the son of an activist mom who grew up in Northeast Ohio.” He traces his own activist roots to his undergraduate years at the University of... Read More
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12/03/20 - Q&A with Geno Miller ‘17When you came to UNH had you planned on weaving in a focus on social innovation or sustainability into your major? Yes, I did. I started my first business when I was 15 years old... Read More