UNH Today

Flushing Out COVID-19

UNH research is flushing out cases of the coronavirus by testing wastewater on campus. The sewage sampling is being used as a secondary surveillance method to the already required twice-weekly individual nasal test to track and detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

NHPR: Election Countdown: Candidates Make Their Final Pitch During Time of Exceptional Turmoil

Dante Scala, faculty fellow at the Carsey School, joined Jake Lahut, politics reporter for Business Insider, and Ella Nilsen, politics reporter for Vox, to discuss the major themes of this political season, including the pandemic response and what looks like a record level of civic engagement based on early voting counts. They also discuss Carsey's newest research brief, Voting Attitudes Along the Red Rural–Blue Urban Continuum, which Scala co-authored with Carsey Senior Demographer Ken Johnson.

Double Win

Jordan Pierce, a master’s student in UNH’s , has just won two notable awards at the 2020 OCEANS Conference—Gulf Coast Division. His paper, "Reducing Annotation Times: Semantic Segmentation of Coral Reef Imagery," won first place, as well as the Norman Miller prize in the Student Poster Competition.

UNH Endowment Investing Goes Green

Did you know that as of July 30, 2020 UNH was ranked sixth among universities in the country for its sustainability practices, topped only by schools like Stanford University, Colorado State, and Arizona State University? Did you know UNH also is one of only nine schools worldwide and only seven in the United States to ever earn theĚýAdvancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s STARS Platinum rating?Ěý