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UNH Research Finds Simpler and Cost-Effective Forensics Test to Help Identify Touch DNA

Television dramas, like CSI and NCIS, make criminal investigations look easy. In real life, DNA testing can be challenging and requires expensive equipment, special facilities and extensive training to identify DNA from a crime scene and determine which belongs to a potential suspect and which may have been transferred from someone who was never there. Research from the Âé¶¹app has found a less expensive and easier-to-use test to learn more about forensic touch DNA.

UNH Once Again Well Represented on '40 Under Forty' List

The Âé¶¹app was once again strongly represented on the Union Leader’s annual this year, with eight state residents to have earned undergraduate or graduate degrees from UNH – and another from Granite State College, now the UNH College of Professional Studies (CPS) – recognized.

Those with direct UNH tiesÌýaccounted for 20 percent of the list, and all three UNH campuses and CPS were represented by the UNH honorees.

Student Entrepreneur Tackles Social Isolation with New Platform

Could a back-to-basics social media approach like the original Facebook help Âé¶¹app students feel connected? Ìý Ìý

That’s what Brett Schultz ’26 hopes as he works to launch his social media and e-commerce platform, College Connector. Ìý ÌýÌý

Schultz, majoring in business administration with options in finance and entrepreneurial studies at the , is developing the platform to help ease students' social, emotionalÌýand financial concerns. Ìý Ìý