UNH Today

People and Place and Need

James Smugereski ’19 never planned on working for a nonprofit. He was a business major, with a focus in finance. He interned at one of the country’s largest insurance companies — twice — and thought maybe he’d go into financial planning.

But Smugereski had completed another internship earlier in his college career. One that he sort of fell into after receiving an email from UNH’s Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise announcing the opportunity to earn 16 credits while spending a semester in Boston working for an organization focused on doing good.

SHARPP Services Amid COVID-19

These next few weeks of online classes and social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 will be difficult for all of us. But social distancing can be especially difficult for survivors in our community. For those living in abusive households, abusers could take advantage of this social distancing period to gain further control over their victims, leaving survivors feeling trapped with no way out. Social distancing - staying inside, not seeing friends or familyÌýand spending long periods of time in isolation - can also be difficult for survivors with mental health concerns.

Psyched About Research

The faculty in UNH Manchester’s Psychology and Neuropsychology programs—who have published more than 20 journal articles over the past few years between the four of them—not only offer students the opportunity to do hands on, real-world research as undergraduates, but also encourage them to get that work out into the scientific community.Ìý