UNH Today

The Significance of Honoring Juneteenth

Shari Robinson, assistant vice provost for student life at UNH, shares why she feels it’s so important for our university community and the New Hampshire Seacoast community to pause and honor Juneteenth. Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 and announced the end of slavery, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

UNH Hosts Government Power Researchers

Last week (June 6 – 8, 2023), UNH hosted federal government researchers for a meeting of the , a federal organization that strives to share information and increase effectiveness of the interagency research and development in advanced power. The meeting showcased UNH expertise in energy, the environment and advanced power and highlighted world-class facilities like the Olson Center, the InterOperability Lab and Chase Ocean Engineering.

A Look at UNH’s Potentially Blight-resistant American Chestnut Plot

One of the largest remaining plots of American chestnut trees in New Hampshire is located at the UNH Kingman Research Farm. The one-acre research plot is a joint effort between the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station and The American Chestnut Foundation to determine whether certain tree varieties are resistant to the blight fungus.

Seed Breeding, Smart Insoles Receive UNHInnovation Fund Grants

Two disparate faculty research projects — squash and pumpkin seeds and smart insole sensors — got a boost from the inaugural recently. The fund awarded two $50,000 grants to help Christopher Hernandez, assistant professor of agriculture, nutrition and food systems, and assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering Diliang Chen move their innovations closer to licensing and commercialization.