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Natalie Lounsbury, a graduate student studying agroecology in UNH鈥檚听, has received a 2020 Switzer Fellowship.听

Ethan Underhill, NH State Director for Urban Rural (UR) Action, writes an op-ed on UR Action and NH Listens' new collaborative project, titled Deepening Connection and Understanding Across New Hampshire's Urban/Rural Divide. This project focues on working with New Hampshire residents from all parts of the state to "strengthen relations and explore different reflections on community challenges 鈥� and their possible solutions."

The Concord Monitor reports on the state's Commission to Study School Funding and its collaboration with the Carsey School of Public Policy in an effort to reform how New Hampshire pays for public schooling. Laura Kiernan reports on Carsey's work with Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research in its data collection and speaks with Commission members and New Hampshire educators and businessowners on this effort and why it's needed.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently a team lead by a UNH scientist听more than half a million dollars to study how warming waters and migrating fish populations are going to affect fish species in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, whose waters are among the fastest warming on the planet.

Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer with the Carsey School,听says birth rates had been drifting down for years and then went off a cliff during the Great Recession more than a decade ago.听鈥淚n fact, because birth rates are so low and there鈥檚 been so little natural increase in the United States, the growth rate last year was the lowest it鈥檚 been since the time of the Spanish flu 100 years ago,鈥� said Johnson. Combined with the fact that听fewer immigrants听are coming to the U.S., Johnson says serious implications from the birth rate decline hang over American society.

Simone Chapman 鈥�20G, a master鈥檚 student in environmental conservation at UNH, has received a .

The Commission to Study School Funding 鈥� established by the NH Legislature last year 鈥� has contracted with the Carsey School of Public Policy to find and identify a more equitable school funding system. Carsey is providing logistical support 鈥� including conducting research and managing communications 鈥� as part of this contract.

Anna Lowien, a masters student in the , was recently awarded an inaugural

Ken Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey School, was recently interviewed by The Daily Mail听听regarding the diminishing U.S. birth rate.听"Survey data already suggest women are planning to delay births as well as delay marriage...I expect many couples to simply decide to delay having children," said Johnson.