UNH Today

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 theÌıAdvancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s STARS Platinum rating?Ìı

Celebrating 10 Years of EcoGastronomy

Grace Stott ‘20 always valued sustainability, but couldn’t figure out how to incorporate it into her college career. Then she discoveredÌıEcoGastronomyÌıand paired it with her nutrition major.Ìı

“It was the perfect blend for my love of healthy living and sustainable food,†Stott said. “I found my true passion. Without a food system that works well, we can’t meet everyone’s basic need to eat.â€ÌıÌı