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.

The newest research facility on campus is a big empty room that’s full of possibilities. Last week (Friday, Oct. 24), UNH unveiled a high-tech cleanroom at the John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center donated by Airtho, which is co-located at the Olson Center. The new ISO7 will help strengthen UNH’s role as a leader for emerging research and innovation, contributing to the growth of advanced manufacturing in New Hampshire and the surrounding region.

UNH alum Ladd Raine ’06 is helping keep New Hampshire’s outdoors open, safe, and sustainable. As president of the Rumney Climbers Association, he leads volunteer efforts focused on trail maintenance, access, and education while also helping launch the Pawtuckaway Climbers Coalition. Drawing on lessons from his UNH education, Raine continues to model stewardship, mentorship, and lifelong adventure.

There was a time when Katie Hawkinson ’22 never imagined herself in sales. Shy and soft-spoken, she sometimes wouldn’t even engage over the phone. 

That changed when she joined UNH’s Professional Sales Group (PSG) in her junior year. Through immersive coursework, sales competitions, and mentorship from professionals, Hawkinson developed the confidence to pitch, negotiate, and close — skills that led to an internship at BitSight, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm, and ultimately to her current role as an account executive. 

Earlier this week, a major Amazon Web Services outage caused a significant dirsruption to apps and websites around the world. UNH's Aleksey Charapko, assistant professor of computer science whose work focuses on designing systems to be less vulnerable to such disruptions, weighed in on the recent situation.

As winter approaches, join UNH in helping those in our communities who may need some help staying warm this year. The Basic Needs Support program, UNH Athletics, UNH Parent's Council, the Office of International Students and Scholars and a dedicated group of faculty and staff are seeking winter clothing donations.

UNH Extension tick expert Shyloh Favreau shares some tick tips for protecting your pets.

For a group of incoming UNH honors students, their first days of college won’t be remembered for a feeling of homesickness or anxiety around fitting in but rather for dodging poison ivy while playing capture the flag, attempting to decode unknown animal noises in the middle of the night and spontaneously square dancing in near-total darkness.

In partnership with a landowner in nearby Madbury, UNH Professor Meghan Howey and her colleagues were able to identify the site of a 1701 garrison known as the Meserve Garrison, completing a dig at the site that contained not only the foundation but some additional artifacts from the colonial period.

Larry Mayer, professor and director of UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, received the National Champion of the Ocean Award from the Urban Coast Institute (UCI) of Monmouth University in New Jersey.