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.
Union Leader: As Election Looms, Voter Anxiety is High
New Hampshire Listens directorÌıMichele Holt-Shannon told the Union Leader that she’s never seen this level of anxiety and discord prior to an election.Ìı“I think the capacity of people to stick with hard conversations feels really strained right now because there’s so much other change that people are dealing with,†said Holt-Shannon.
NH Teacher of the Year
UNH alumna Danielle Boutin '08 '09G is named NH Teacher of the Year.
Jacques Lee Wood (The New Hampshire)
He's UNH’s own world-renowned cellist.
Coast Watchers
UNH's Jackson Estuarine Laboratory celebrates 50 years of research on estuarine, coastalÌıand marine ecosystems.Ìı
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
Mobile test lab helps detect COVID-19 at UNH satellite campuses
A mobile test lab for COVID-19 is helping keep students going to class at the Âé¶¹app and its satellite campuses.
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









































