UNH Police Sgt. Callum Cochran is earning his master’s in social work to help improve mental health resources for first responders. Balancing full-time work, family, and coursework, he’s using his experience to bridge the gap between law enforcement and wellnes.

John “Bozo” Kennedy, 88-year-old UNH graduate and former goalie on the men’s hockey team, recently gained some national notoriety in a fashion usually reserved for people a couple of generations younger – he went viral online.

Kennedy is a proud Wildcat alumnus who tries to attend at least one hockey game per year. But this year his family surprised him by adding his name to the list of alumni recognized during the game – and flying almost the entire family out to share the special moment with him.

UNH Ph.D. student Prashant Purohit developed a CPR training mannequin for newborn care, using real-time feedback to improve technique and reduce fatigue. His research, combining engineering and nursing insights, aims to create accessible training tools for hospitals in low-resource countries where neonatal mortality remains high and equipment is often unaffordable.

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."   

UNH's Claira Seely studies how to implement advanced sensor technologies on small New England dairy farms. 

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.