The University of New Hampshire was well-represented on the Union Leader’s annual 40 Under Forty award list this year, with current and former undergraduate and graduate students making up nearly one-third of the honorees recognized for making a difference in their communities and professions throughout the Granite State.

Members of UNH's senior leadership team set out on a tour last November that took them all over New Hampshire to meet with Granite Staters, exploring the ways UNH’s partnerships are making a difference in their communities and discussing new opportunities to work together on unique, regional challenges.

Becca Pincince ’26 didn’t experience the brief period of anonymity most freshmen are granted during their first days on campus after she arrived last fall. Instead, numerous professors and other members of the university community were quick to share that they recognized her last name.

Which, of course, she attributed to her older brother.

And her older brother.

And her older brother.

And her older brother.

And her older twin siblings.

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire were part of a world-renowned team that found an intact shipwreck from the 19th century hundreds of feet below the surface of Lake Huron.

The University of New Hampshire's  Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics  is officially the highest ranked public business school in New England. 

Scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) and the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture are using unpiloted aerial systems to examine how fragmented forests and the creation of new forest edges are changing ecosystems and forest composition.

For more than five decades, the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NHVDL) at the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture has helped secure animal and public health by providing essential diagnostic services to the Granite State and New England. The NHVDL also provides valuable training to UNH students in the medical laboratory, veterinary and STEM disciplines—experience that these students bring to the workforce and advanced degree programs.

The UNH men's hockey team hosted rival Maine on Friday, Feb. 17 in a showdown that marked the return of White Out the Whitt for the first time in four years. The tradition of fans wearing white to UNH's home games against Maine began in 1999 but hadn't taken place since Feb. 2, 2019, thanks to a combination of COVID and Hockey East conference scheduling changes. But it came back in a big way Friday night, as a sellout crowd decked out in white cheered the Wildcats men's hockey team to a raucous shootout win over the Black Bears.

Angela Lee ’23 still can’t believe she spent the summer working as an intern managing restaurants and bars at the historic Omni Mount Washington Resort.