Margaret (Peggy) Ann Shea ’58, ’61G, ’18H was honored with the Charles Holmes Pettee Medal at this year's annual Evening of Distinction event at UNH.

Shea’s decades-long scientific career researching the interplay between cosmic rays, solar particles and Earth’s magnetic field has helped set standards used by NASA and the FAA in aviation and space exploration. And her investigations into contemporary and historic solar phenomena and cosmic ray events have yielded valuable insights that are still being explored today. 

Alyssa Stasse ’25G is the first member of her family to attend a four-year college. She’s also a self-proclaimed science convert, having found the subject matter “super boring” in high school before diving into research as an undergrad that completely changed her perspective.

The result? She’s now hoping to combine higher education and science to build a career in academia. Before she gets there, she’s also trying to open doors for other young students to follow in her footsteps.

As the time approached for final projects to be completed in the photography program Becky Field had enrolled in at the New Hampshire Institute of Art (now New England College), she knew many of her classmates were frantically scrambling to pull project ideas together.

She, though, was experiencing no such pressure.

“Many students probably started their final projects two weeks before we ended the program, but I had started mine two years ahead,” she laughs.

Gregory Forzley's day-to-day work is far from dull, whether he's feeding thousands of hungry Atlanta Falcons fans or planning the menu for "Swifties" attending a multi-day Taylor Swift concert. 

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities honored UNH's research fieldwork safety program with an award.

Effective immediately, students, faculty and staff now have free online access to The New York Times through the UNH Library. The UNH Library serves as the intellectual common ground of the campus community and providing access to a quality news source is critical to information literacy, says Jennifer Carroll, associate professor and collection strategy librarian.

Michelle Fournet, marine acoustic ecologist and assistant professor in the department of biological sciences, was recently named a 2023 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow.

The UNH Center for the Humanities is excited to announce a special campus event to be supported by the Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series. Danny Bedrosian '03, music director for the pathbreaking Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winning funk band George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, will join bandmates and Clinton himself in a multi-part visit to UNH later this month.

UNH's cucurbit program leads in developing disease-resistant squash, pumpkins, and melons, blending 80+ years of science with innovative genetics.

The University System of New Hampshire (USNH) Board of Trustees has announced the members of the search committee that will work into the spring to help select the next president of the University of New Hampshire. President James W. Dean, Jr. announced that he will retire on June 30, 2024, after serving as president since 2018.