UNH Today

A Chance to Shine

Within two years of graduating from UNH Law, Michael Strauss ’15JD was rubbing elbows with celebrities in an exclusive 5th Avenue club and helping to negotiate a multi-billion dollar collective bargaining agreement from the Waldorf Astoria in Midtown Manhattan.

Now, while his days remain crowded with complex work at a major multinational law firm, his nights are spent in his New Hampshire home, with his wife and infant son.

Access to an Active Life

When Debra Boucher retired in 2017, she faced some lifestyle adjustments beyond those of the average retiree. A once-avid hiker and biker, on and off the trail, the Manchester, New Hampshire, resident had given up the sports she loved after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

But then a friend told her about Northeast Passage. The UNH-based adaptive sports and therapeutic recreation program has been serving individuals with disabilities since 1990.

Insight and Inspiration

Neuroscience major Kiley Kennedy ’19 didn’t expect to be so moved by reading the charts of pediatric epilepsy patients, a responsibility of her internship in the pediatric Status Epilepticus Research Group (pSERG) at Boston Children’s Hospital. “It’s a story that you can see unfolding in front of you as the facts of the chart reveal the journey that patient took,” she says. “I feel I learn more about them than I would if I met them.”