UNH Today

Going With The Flow

Climate change is expected to cause more droughts and stronger storms, and a new UNH study suggests that as these precipitation extremes grow more common the effect on water quality may be hard to predict. Rainfall and drought have direct impacts on the amount of carbon and nutrients, such as nitrogen, washing into our waterways, and healthy nutrient concentrations are important for maintaining fisheries, food webs and recreational value.

Yahoo News/New Hampshire Union Leader: NH grows more diverse, faces call for change

"If not for the minority child population gain, New Hampshire would face even greater challenges in meeting the labor force demands of the future. Just as the parents of these minority children are already contributing to the current demand for workers in the state."

Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson recently spoke with the New Hampshire Union Leader about the diversifying of New Hampshire in an article that also examines how the state's education system should also respond to the growth in the number of children of non-white races.

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 activities for second graders at Manchester’s Boys and Girls Club during fall 2020.

Style Matters

Researchers at the Âé¶¹app and the University of Nebraska at Omaha took a closer look at international leadership styles and found global leaders that had a rational, problem-solving approach toward the COVID-19 crisis were associated with fewer country-wide infections.

Maine Public: South Portland's new mayor Deqa Dhalac recalls her journey from Somalia to local Maine politics

Maine Public recently recorded an interview with Deqa Dhalac ‘13G, a graduate of the Carsey School’s Master in Community Development program who was sworn in as mayor of South Portland, Maine, in December and has likely become the first Somali American mayor in the United States.

Off and Running

Many of the things Nathaniel Hunt ’22 learned as a philosophy major proved beneficial when he conceived a business idea, and his partnership with the Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship CenterÌýhelped take the project from concept to Holloway Competition winner. Hear Nathaniel’s story in his own words.