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  • Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Manchester's STEM Teaching Fellows meet via Zoom with Boys and Girls Club STEM director Keith Darling to plan outreach activities
    - STEM Outreach Success
    The COVID pandemic provided no shortage of opportunities for organizations to adapt, and that’s precisely what fourÌýSTEM Teaching Fellows did when they developed outreach... Read More
  • Researcher stands alone in marsh
    - Keeping Great Marsh Great
    With a $3.1 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø researchers will work to protect Great Marsh in northern Massachusetts and southern Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø. Read More
  • Women studying biotechnology in the Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Manchester biotechnology innovation center
    - Be Inspired by Women in STEM, Nov. 9
    Women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, but only 27% of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce. Women are vastly underrepresented in STEM—and at... Read More
  • Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Professor Chris Neefus talks to his students about mushrooms.
    - Mushroom Madness
    Say what you will about 2021, but the year is shaping up to be phenomenal for mushrooms. Read More
  • Dr. Sue Cooke with Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Manchester students
    - Faculty Spotlight: Sue Cooke ’94, ’04G, Biological Sciences
    Since joining the Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Manchester faculty in 2013, Dr. Sue Cooke, lecturer of biological sciences,Ìýhas designed courses that not only appeal to her students’ interests, but also... Read More
  • Aerial view of river with researchers working on sandbar
    - Research Snapshot: Protecting Smelt
    On a sandbar in the Squamscott River in Exeter, Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø researchers and collaborators from Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Fish and Game and Coastal Research Volunteers collect rainbow smelt caught in... Read More
  • Female researcher scoops into large fish tank with net
    - Research Snapshot: Raising Lumpfish
    At Ò×ʤ²©¹Ù꿉۪s Coastal Marine Lab in New Castle, N.H., Elizabeth Fairchild raises and researches lumpfish as a potential pest-management solution for the aquaculture industry. Fairchild... Read More
  • Image of neurons lit up on dark background
    - Brain Monitor
    With a new National Institutes of Health grant, Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø researchers Edward Song and Arturo Andrade will conduct research on the neurotransmitter glutamate that will contribute to our... Read More
  • Madison Oliwa Headshot
    - From Biology Club to Breast Cancer Research
    MadissonÌýOliwaÌý’19 graduated from Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Manchester with a degree in BiotechnologyÌýand is currently halfway through her two-year research position at the Breast Tumor Immunology Lab... Read More
  • Professor Sue Cooke and four Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Manchester students who make up Team Cooke
    - Space Bound
    A team of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Manchester students is one of five selected by NASA to send their experiment on soil bacteria mutationÌýto the International Space Station. Read More