Deborah Fournier, J.D., director of health law and policy for UNH's Institute for Health Policy and Practice and former N.H. Medicaid director, shares insights on current issues around Medicaid.

UNH’s College of Professional Studies has earned the 2025-2026 Military Friendly School designation. CPS, the online adult-focused college within the University of New Hampshire, received the “Gold” distinction, indicating that it has gone “over and above” the Military Friendly School criteria.

In an Associated Press article about immigrants keeping the largest urban counties in the U. S. growing in 2024, the Carsey School's Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson commented “A substantial excess of births over deaths has long been the primary driver of U.S. population growth, but as this surplus dwindled in the last four years immigration provided the bulk of the nation’s population increase...."Nationwide, last year’s natural growth was less than half the average gain of 1.2 million people that the country experienced in the five years before the pandemic.

CBS News’ 60 Minutes Overtime interviewed the Carsey School’s Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson to find out what’s happening with American women between the ages of 20-29 who are having fewer babies and may be opting out of having children altogether. 60 Minutes Overtime reports, “Johnson commented that finding out what’s happening among this particular age group is the "big question" and many factors are at play.

In this Newsweek article, U.S. News Reporter Jordan King interviews experts to examine the reason Americans are moving to low-tax states. Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey School of Public Policy and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, told Newsweek: "We have found that people don't migrate or stay put for a single reason. Rather, and this is a key point, the decision to migrate or not is generally impacted by several different factors and the mix of factors and their relative importance varies by life-cycle stage."   

The International Changemaker Grant will send five teams of UNH students to a variety of international locations this summer, where the students will work in native communities and collaborate with organizations working on sustainability initiatives ranging from energy insecurity and community resilience to plastic waste and accessible sanitation at schools.

Students will be traveling to Senegal, Kenya, Cambodia and Uganda.

The University of New Hampshire celebrated commencement weekend with three ceremonies on the Durham campus and one at the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law May 16 and 17, bringing huge crowds of family and friends together to send the graduates off.

One UNH student and one recent graduate received Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) this spring, giving them both the opportunity to participate in immersive language study. Jacob Remick ’19 ’24G will take part in the overseas program – studying in Tajikistan – while Cooper Mee ’28 will participate in the CLS Spark virtual program, studying Japanese thanks to facilitation from the LTL Language School in Tokyo.

The Center for Sustainable Seafood Systems at the University of New Hampshire has donated close to 60 pounds of smoked steelhead trout to Gather, a nonprofit that helps feed those experiencing hunger in New Hampshire’s Seacoast and southern Maine. The responsibly grown fish is a product of UNH's AquaFort, a floating aquaculture platform located off the coast of New Hampshire.

At the UNH Holloway Prize Competition, student teams gain more than just prizes — real-world skills, industry feedback and professional connections help turn innovative ideas into viable ventures, whether they win or not.