Sustaining Striped Bass
A study led by Adrienne Kovach pinpoints where the striped bass caught off the northeast coast originally came from.
A study led by Adrienne Kovach pinpoints where the striped bass caught off the northeast coast originally came from.
Every year, a chosen few of UNH’s outstanding faculty members from each college and school receive Faculty Excellence Awards in recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service. University-wide awards recognize public service, research, teaching and engagement. The 2025 award recipients include:

Pops of color explode throughout campus every fall, making it perhaps the most beatiful time of year at UNH. As the leaves continue to drop, join us for an aerial tour of some of the prettiest scenic highlights from the season.
The University of New Hampshire will launch a reimagined Journalism and Media Studies program next year, focused on equipping students with both the practical skills the profession demands and the theoretical and analytic training to navigate an evolving media landscape in thoughtful and ethical ways.
Alumni, faculty, staff, and students were recognized for their sustainability efforts during the annual UNH Sustainability Awards on Thursday, Oct. 30.
Awards included lifetime achievement recognition in each of the non-student categories, as well as selection of a Student Organization of the Year.
Millions of Americans are dealing with significant uncertainty around access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as the government shutdown extends into its second month, as the presidential administration recently announced that it would pay out only half of the amount people normally receive this month.

Two years ago, Jayden Buckrell ’27 was pondering walking away from the sport he’d dedicated most of his young life to.
Burned out and questioning whether he even wanted to pursue an athletic future as a skier at the collegiate level, an email from then-UNH ski coach Brian Blank re-lit Buckrell’s competitive fire.
And the rest of the NCAA men’s slalom field soon paid the price.
UNH earned the No. 25 position in the Princeton Review’s Top 50 Green Colleges list, earning 96 out of a possible 99 points in the sustainability rating. The announcement comes during Campus Sustainability Month, an international celebration of sustainability in higher education by Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
With Halloween right around the corner and Thanksgiving pie season close on its heels, we asked a UNH expert to drop some knowledge about pumpkins. Chris Hernandez, assistant professor of plant breeding, researches cucurbits, which are "any sort of vining crop, like cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, squash – those are all in the cucurbit family." He offers some tips for picking the best variety for a jack-o'-lantern and sheds some light on what makes the best pumpkin pie – the latter of which might surprise you.