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Funded by the听Center for the Humanities'听general endowment and the Ben and Zelma Dorson Endowment in the Humanities,听听provide a semester-long opportunity for junior and tenured faculty to pursue humanities research with no teaching obligations. Awardees participate in the听听in the year following their fellowship.

COLSA鈥檚 department of agriculture, nutrition, and food systems (ANFS), UNH Hospitality Services, and Gather, a food pantry and food distribution network based in Portsmouth, are turning unused food into ready-to-eat meals for those in need.

34 student volunteers helped power McGregor Memorial EMS, the primary ambulance service for Durham, UNH, Madbury and Lee, during the COVID-19 pandemic.听Not only did the student-volunteers, who comprise about half the service鈥檚 staff, continue volunteering, they gave a record amount of their time in 2020: more than 40,000 hours, an increase of 5,000 hours from the previous year, according to McGregor executive director Chris Lemelin 鈥�06 鈥�11G.听

A recent study published by the Carsey School of Public Policy and conducted by UNH researchers Jess Carson, Analena Bruce, and Isaac Leslie found that half of New Hampshire residents buy local farm fresh food each month.

The frost heaves that turn New England roads and their drivers into a bumpy, grumpy mess are one of many consequences of the seasonal soil freeze and thaw cycle that impacts about half of the northern hemisphere.听Yet despite this well-known phenomenon, there is a surprising lack of soil frost research that assesses the timing and extent of frozen soil and its impacts.听

The New Hampshire Institute for Civics Education recently held an interactive discussion on civic and community health with speakers Martha McCoy of Everyday Democracy and Bruce Mallory and Quixada Moore-Vissing, authors of the 2020 New Hampshire Civic Health Index at the Carsey School.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Center for Impact Finance at the UNH Carsey School held the 2021 Financial Innovations Roundtable, titled "Scaling Equitable Solar Finance," in May. Watch the recording of this event.

Michael Ettlinger, founding Director of UNH's Carsey School of Public Policy, was quoted in Politico on which state economies are recovering the fastest from the economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.听鈥淲hat we're seeing is the states that were down the most at the beginning are still down the most, and those were basically the states that rely most on travel,鈥� said Ettlinger.

Do shrinking birth rates and closing elementary schools in New Hampshire offer a preview of what's to happen around the country? Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson believes so. Johnson recently spoke with reporters at The 74 Million about recent data that shows that听8 million fewer babies were born in the past 13 years than would have if the 2007-era birth rates had continued.

A study by UNH researchers听found that听half of New Hampshire residents are buying food from local farms at least a few times a month.