UNH Today

The Power of Ordinary People Driving Policy Change

In July, Dr. Melinda Negrón-Gonzales will officially make the jump from Manchester to Durham and join the faculty at the Carsey School of Public Policy. The 30-mile move may not seem all that momentous after a career that has taken Dr. Negrón-Gonzales from her hometown of Queens, New York, to New Hampshire’s Queen City, with a few stops around the world in between. However, the College of Professional Studies (CPS) in Manchester has been her home for the past fifteen years and she has fallen hard for that corner of the UNH community. Dr.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Shape UNH Experience for Hayes '23

Maggie Hayes '23 had the opportunity to honeÌýa variety of research skills as an undergraduate at UNH, an experience that highlighted her time on campus and culminated with a presentation at the 2023 Undergraduate Research Conference. Hayes' work centered on surveyingÌýskunk adenovirus-1 (SkAdV-1) in wildlife from the state of Maine.

USNH To See Significant Boost in State Support Under New Budget

The University System of New Hampshire (USNH) will exceed $200 million in biennial state support for the first time since fiscal years 2010-11Ìýas a result of a state budget recently signed by Gov. Chris Sununu. The combination of operating, capital and one-time surplus support for USNH will be $216 millionÌýfor the biennium, a 12.5% jump from the current budget.

Skull Scare

TSA agents at the Pittsburgh airport got a scare recently, when Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Mamros ’23G sent her research — which aims to create customizable trauma fixation hardware that will hold bones together while they heal — through the scanner.

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.