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Recent Stories

  • 2016 UNH graduate Lauren Percy
    - 2016 Grad Crowned Miss New Hampshire
    On April 29, Lauren Percy '16 was crowned Miss New Hampshire. Her talent performance was “Contemporary Ballet en Pointe to America from West Side Story.” Percy, who is currently a... Read More
  • SPARK 2017
    - SPARK 2017
    Flip through the most recent issue of SPARK, UNH’s annual research review. Read More
  • Making History
    - Making History
    Notable honors. Carefully researched volumes that have claimed the national spotlight. World-renowned scholars. Read More
  • UNH plant breeding
    - Breeding Success
    In 1951, the "New Hampshire Midget" watermelon, developed at UNH by Albert F. Yeager, then head of the university’s horticulture department, won a gold medal in the All-American... Read More
  • David Finkelhor
    - Keeping Kids Safe
    For decades, the Crimes against Children Research Center has worked tirelessly to keep children safe. Read More
  • UNH campus aerial
    - Taking Research to Market
    A new National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded initiative aims to foster entrepreneurship on campus and help take UNH-developed innovations from the lab to commercial markets. Read More
  • Regenerating Tissue, Revitalizing Industry
    - Regenerating Tissue, Revitalizing Industry
    In December, UNH was tapped to play a leading role in a major national public-private institute that aims to launch an industry, headquartered in New Hampshire, that will develop... Read More
  • Elena Long
    - Forging a Path for LGBT Physicists
    Elena Long, a postdoctoral researcher in UNH’s physics department, made news twice in the final months of 2016. First, the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National... Read More
  • Space Science at UNH
    - Research on the Edge: Space Science
    The first data from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS), launched in 2015 with nearly half of its scientific instruments coordinated or built by UNH, were published in... Read More
  • Nancy Targett
    - A Closing Inquiry
    Provost Nancy Targett (above) became UNH’s senior academic administrator in fall 2016. A member of the University of Delaware faculty since 1984, she most recently served as UDel’... Read More