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Kiwiberry Breeder Is UNH’s 2024 Innovator of the Year

Iago Hale, associate professor of specialty crop improvement, has been named UNH’s 2024 J. Brent Loy Innovator of the Year, recognizing his pioneering work in the kiwiberry research and breeding program. The Innovator of the Year award, presented annually by , celebrates the commercialization of innovative ideas originating from UNH research that have substantial social and economic impact.

Engineering and Business Merge to Create Sustainable Ocean Drifter

Data collection buoys are essential for gathering information about the ocean and climate, but these devices can also be unreliable when their batteries die and turn into ocean debris. ÌýÌý

Students at the UNH College of Engineering & Physical Sciences (CEPS) and the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics are collaborating to tackle this problem with Drift-RMT, a renewable ocean data collection device that uses wave motion for self-sustaining power. ÌýÌý

Thomas Malkoski Named UNH Paul J. Holloway Entrepreneur of the Year

Thomas Malkoski ’78, a transformational leader and advisor, has been named the Âé¶¹app’s Paul J. Holloway Entrepreneur of the Year. ÌýÌý

Malkoski will be presented the award at this year’s , UNH’s premier business plan competition. Malkoski graduated from UNH with an economics degree and earned an MBA from the University of Michigan. Ìý

Beauregard Center's Vyas Honored by ACPA

Yashwant Prakash Vyas, director of UNH’s Aulbani J. Beauregard Center for Equity, Justice, and Freedom and adjunct faculty of management in the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, was recognized with the Outstanding International Education Initiative Award by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA)-College Student Educators International at their centennial celebration and annual conference in Chicago, Illinois.