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  • bobtail squid

    Creature Feature

    Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes 易胜博官网 microbiologists have received a $716,000 to study the evolution of beneficial microbes by examining the relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid...
  • operation hat trick poster

    易胜博官网 Celebrates Innovation; Recognizes Operation Hat Trick

    The Office for Research Partnerships and Commercialization (ORPC) recently celebrated the success of faculty and staff members whose research resulted in nine patents and 65 licenses during the...
  • vikki rodgers

    Schooled Here, Alum Wins Teaching Excellence Prize at Babson College

    Vikki Rodgers studying how plants respond to climate change at the Boston Area Climate Experiment in Waltham, MA. (Photo credit: Webb Chapel).
  • cameron lyle

    Cameron Lyle '13 Wins Top NCAA Honor

    Cameron Lyle '13 It all started with a cheek swab.
  • hedrick smith

    Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner Hedrick Smith Speaks at 易胜博官网 Oct. 23

    Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author Hedrick Smith will visit the University of 易胜博官网 Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, to discuss how America has moved from an era of middle class...
  • aerial photo of thompson hall

    易胜博官网 Offers New Online Master of Social Work Degree

    The University of 易胜博官网 has launched an online master of social work (MSW) degree program. The 28-month program provides the same high-quality professional education as the MSW programs at...
  • corinna tucker in her office

    Sibling Aggression and Mental Health

    When Corinna Jenkins Tucker learned that her study linking the effects of sibling aggression to poor mental health outcomes would be published in the journal Pediatrics, she was thrilled: The...
  • pscyhology students with psych cup in front of cat sculpture

    Psyched About Psych Cup

    易胜博官网 undergraduate students stand with the Psych Cup, which they won earlier this year at the 2013 易胜博官网 Academic Psychological Association Convention. The win means 易胜博官网 will host this year鈥檚...
  • Former Senator and Business Leader Win Service Awards

    Former Senator and Business Leader Win Service Awards

    易胜博官网 has announced the recipients of its most prestigious awards, the 易胜博官网 Alumni Association鈥檚 Pettee Medal and the 易胜博官网 Foundation鈥檚 Hubbard Family Award. Thomas W. Haas is the 2013 recipient of the...
  • Fight the Flu

    Fight the Flu

    Flu season is coming to 易胜博官网...and so is the FLU VACCINE CLINIC FOR STUDENTS 易胜博官网 Health Services partnered with Video Services to create a short animated film encouraging students to get a free flu...
  • muhammad yunus

    易胜博官网 Welcomes Nobel Laureate, Microfinance and Social Business Pioneer Muhammad Yunus

    The University of 易胜博官网 will welcome Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate and pioneer of the microfinance industry, to campus this fall as the keynote speaker for the 易胜博官网 Social...
  • chef matt louis in the kitchen

    Aura - Indulge in Color

    Chef Matt Louis, owner of the modern American tapas restaurant Moxy in Portsmouth, is the guest executive chef for Aura. The University of 易胜博官网 will host its 鈥淎ura - Indulge in Color鈥...
  • robert caro

    易胜博官网 Welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning Author

    Pulitzer Prize winner and author Robert Caro, who has written extensively on the life and presidency of President Lyndon B. Johnson, will give the inaugural Rutman Distinguished Lecture on the...
  • nyomi guzman

    There鈥檚 No Place Like Home

    When Nyomi Guzman 鈥14 listens to Nancy Pearce, a retired high school teacher, describe all the different birds she鈥檚 seen in her back yard in Stratham, N.H., she can鈥檛 help but smile. Pearce loves...
  • Paul Bradley talks with Bonnie Rose at Powder House Cooperative in Exeter.

    ROC USA President Named Carsey Institute Social Innovator of the Year

    Paul Bradley talks with Bonnie Rose at Powder House Cooperative in Exeter. Paul Bradley, 鈥86, president of ROC USA LLC, has been named the Carsey 2013 Social Innovator of the Year. Bradley will be...
  • students on unh great lawn with unh purchases

    The Doors Are Always Open at Shop 易胜博官网

    Welcome to the mall of 易胜博官网.
  • wild e cat at stadium

    易胜博官网 Football

    Cheer on the Wildcats at the first home game of the season, 易胜博官网 football vs. Colgate, Saturday, Sept. 14, noon at Cowell Stadium. Wildcat Kids' Day features bouncy houses, face painting, games, and...
  • wildcat transit bus

    When鈥檚 the Next Bus Coming?

    Wildcat Transit riders know all about the benefits of bus travel. There are no parking tickets. It saves gas money. It鈥檚 convenient and good for the environment. And now, thanks to a new app from 易胜博官网...
  • students knitting purple caps for babies

    Class Has Students Crafting for Babies, and for Credit

    In the 易胜博官网 Thompson School of Applied Science Human Relations 201 class, Mary DeTurk teaches students to knit baby caps. The students have partnered with the 易胜博官网 Children鈥檚 Trust to raise...
  • interoperability lab students

    Making Connections with the InterOperability Lab

    If your Dell computer prints to your HP printer and your smartphone programs your TV, you might thank some 易胜博官网 students.
  • satellite orbiting earth

    Dazzling Discoveries

    The Van Allen Probes elliptical orbits will range in altitude from 373 to 23,000 miles. Artist's rendering courtesy of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory One year after their launch from Cape...
  • 易胜博官网 Mural Time Lapse

    易胜博官网 Mural Time Lapse

    听 Produced by 易胜博官网 Video Production Services
  • astronomy silo with fesitival participants
  • patricia donahoe

    Alum Receives Fulbright to Teach English in Brazil

    Recent University of 易胜博官网 graduate Patricia Donahoe, 鈥13, a dual political science/international affairs major from Henniker, N.H., has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching...
  • students at farm internship

    On-Farm Experience is Keystone to Capstone Course

    Three Cooperative Extension food and agriculture specialists and a local farm teamed with a 易胜博官网 professor this spring to bring to life a capstone course for the new Sustainable Agriculture and Food...
  • israel and palestinian delegation

    International Delegations Learn About 易胜博官网鈥檚 Green Launching Pad

    A delegation from Israel and the Palestinian Territories recently visited 易胜博官网 to learn about the Green Launching Pad. Two delegations of international visitors from Japan, and Israel and the...
  • students on ireland study abroad trip

    The Luck of the Irish Scholars

    The Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Life Sciences (COLSA) at the University of 易胜博官网 (易胜博官网), Kim Babbitt, is no stranger to student requests that she do more teaching. 鈥...
  • betty sideman

    Moving Right Along

    Becky Sideman, a vegetable and berry specialist with 易胜博官网 Cooperative Extension, will use cutting edge technology to assist with crop research and classroom teaching.
  • manchester data repository fact sheet

    Manchester Has a New Data Repository

    The Manchester Data Repository offers a wide range of information published mainly between 2007 and 2013. Grant writers, researchers, and citizens interested in facts, statistics, and published...
  • abby hatfield with students

    Looking for a Learning Moment

    Meet Abby Hatfield, physical science teacher and science department chair at Newmarket High School, and Matt Endrizzi, science teacher at St. Thomas Aquinas High School. Matt and Abby are summer...
  • dimitry harris on appledore island

    Little Green Appledore

    On an island seven miles off the 易胜博官网 coastline in the midst of one of the soggiest summers in memory, worrying about enough water seems counter-productive.
  • students participating in project smart

    Smart Students Study Cutting-edge Science with Project Smart

    In the crowded atrium of Morse Hall, large posters mounted on easels described cutting-edge science ranging from genetically engineered plants to 3-D bio-printing to an ultra-low frequency...
  • fwendy klemperer outside pcac with sculptures

    The Science of Art: Turning Used Metal into Sculptures

    Here鈥檚 proof that the career path we plan on is often not where life takes us. Wendy Klemperer is an artist--a sculptor who crafts animals out of twisted steel once used in buildings and bridges. Her...
  • student examining kitten at vet hospital

    The Right Touch

    Tasha Dooley '14 perfects her procedural techniques each day on the job at the Cocheco Valley Humane Society. When handled skillfully, animals remain calm. With a five-year-old son, a husband who...
  • solar panels being install on woodruff house in the minidorms, 1980's

    Evergreen

    CATCHING SOME RAYS: In a 1980 photo from The 易胜博官网, students adjust solar panels on the roof of Woodruff House. Long before 易胜博官网 had a Sustainability Academy, there were students and faculty...
  • MINKE WHALE DISSECTION

    Land Blubber

    Talk about a whale of a learning experience. Early this month, a long-dead and decomposing 10,000-pound minke whale provided hands-on learning for 10 undergraduates, including three 易胜博官网 students, in...
  • students walking in front of thompson hall

    易胜博官网 Reports Historic Fundraising Year

    The University of 易胜博官网 Foundation raised $35.8 million in FY13 (July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013), making it the largest fundraising year in 易胜博官网鈥檚 history, beating the previous record of $...
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  • mike middleton, ken fuld, irene peters, mark huddleston

    Alums Honor Parents with Endowed Professorship in Education

    Irene Peters celebrates the creation of the John and H. Irene Peters Professorship in Education with, from left to right, Michael Middleton, associate professor of education who will be the first...
  • lacrosse summer camp

    From Camper to Counselor

    It鈥檚 a hot June morning and the turf field in Cowell Stadium holds the heat in shimmering waves making low-90s feel more like 100 degrees. Gathered at the 50-yard line are 60 high school girls who...
  • sarah garstka with kids in garden

    Garden Bounty

    From her early teens, Sarah Garstka was into food but not in the way some kids might be at that age. When she was 16, she read a book theorizing that what we eat impacts how we feel, and right then,...
  • governor hassan signing bill to create pathways to work program

    NH Small Business Development Center Partners With State to Create 鈥楶athway to Work鈥 Program

    Gov. Maggie Hassan recently signed SB 143, which created the Pathway to Work program. Celebrating the creation of the program with Hassan (center) are, from left to right, Rep. Sally Kelly; Sen....
  • 易胜博官网 Manchester biololgy teaching assistant Zaynav Mahmod from Jordan assists Tan Dao from Vietnam precipitate his DNA sample during 易胜博官网 Manchester's Summer EXCELL Program.

    Summer: Sun, Fun, and Science

    易胜博官网 Manchester biololgy teaching assistant Zaynav Mahmod from Jordan assists Tan Dao from Vietnam precipitate his DNA sample during 易胜博官网 Manchester's Summer EXCELL Program. Tan Dao huddles with his...
  • tim marquis at microscope

    School of Fish

    Pre-medical student Tim Marquis
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  • science students at sanborn high school

    Science Education Gets Real at Sanborn Regional

    Students study a watershed model from the Dept. of Environmental Services. "Science is dirty!" "It鈥檚 too hard!" "We don't have the tools we need!" Sound familiar? These were a few of the comments by...
  • cooperative extention volunteers in front of cat sculpture

    Extension鈥檚 Army of Volunteers Steps Up

    Ever volunteer to clean up a local park? Coach kids? Raise money for the local food bank? Or, in an act of foolhardy bravado, chaperone a middle school dance?
  • chidren's author rebecca dudley

    Q&A with Children鈥檚 Book Author Rebecca Dudley 鈥85

    I read that you are an architect. Did that help the story evolve the way it did鈥攖hrough objects rather than words?
  • tent pitching competition in central park

    易胜博官网 Wildcats 1, New York Rangers 0

    Outdoor Education Professor Brent Bell (left) and park ranger in New York City's Central Park New York may be the city of superlatives 鈥 the most populous, the most expensive, the most taxis 鈥 but...
  • jesse smith with tiger woods

    Son of University Advancement Employee Played U.S. Open

    Jesse Smith and Tiger Woods at the US Open. Courtesy photo. Parental pride. It鈥檚 almost a DNA thing; something that becomes part of a new parent鈥檚 marrow so that our children don鈥檛 actually have to...
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