Elizabeth Chilton, who has been named the 21st president of UNH, delivers a message to the entire university community ahead of her arrival July 1, 2024.

Following a national search, Elizabeth S. Chilton, a native of the Northeast who most recently served as chancellor of Washington State University’s Pullman campus, has been appointed the 21st president of the University of New Hampshire, effective July 1, 2024.

Data collection buoys are essential for gathering information about the ocean and climate, but these devices can also be unreliable when their batteries die and turn into ocean debris.   

Students at the UNH College of Engineering & Physical Sciences (CEPS) and the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics are collaborating to tackle this problem with Drift-RMT, a renewable ocean data collection device that uses wave motion for self-sustaining power.   

Thomas Malkoski ’78, a transformational leader and advisor, has been named the University of New Hampshire’s Paul J. Holloway Entrepreneur of the Year.   

Malkoski will be presented the award at this year’s Paul J. Holloway Prize Competition, UNH’s premier business plan competition. Malkoski graduated from UNH with an economics degree and earned an MBA from the University of Michigan.  

Yashwant Prakash Vyas, director of UNH’s Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom and adjunct faculty of management in the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, was recognized with the Outstanding International Education Initiative Award by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA)-College Student Educators International at their centennial celebration and annual conference in Chicago, Illinois.

Anna O’Brien, assistant professor in the department of molecular, cellular, and biomedical sciences, joined the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture in March 2022, bringing her deeply inquisitive energy, commitment to work that benefits both the planet and its inhabitants, and love of bright colors to the college.

In just a few short months, four UNH nursing students turned their COVID-related frustrations into entrepreneurship that may ultimately help address a significant healthcare problem.  

A longtime volunteer and a longstanding community organization will be recognized with the University of New Hampshire’s Granite State Awards for outstanding contributions to the state, the university has announced. The awards will be presented at UNH’s Commencement ceremonies in May.

UNH’s Undergraduate Research Conference (URC), one of the largest and most diverse events of its kind in the country, celebrated its 25th year of showcasing student research and scholarly work when more than 1,600 students presented at the annual university-wide event April 23 to 27.

This year’s URC saw more than a 10% increase in student participants over URC 2023.

Shortly after the COVID-19 outbreak struck in the spring of 2020, Jan Dean found herself staring at a dining room table covered in a sea of tiny puzzle pieces.

With the world locked down and her husband, UNH President Jim Dean, navigating the uncharted waters of figuring out how to guide a university through a global pandemic, spending hours building 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles proved an ideal escape.

“We were just desperate to have something to think about besides what was going on in the world at the time,” Dean says.