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Increasing the Benefits and Reducing the Risks of Pain Management Using Opioids

mw1560 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:15:48 +0000

Despite their wide use and effectiveness, opioid pain medications can lead to addiction in some people. New Hampshire has had among the highest drug overdose death rates in the nation within the past decade. At the �鶹app (UNH), Cheryl Whistler is investigating why opioid response and addiction susceptibility differs between individuals and whether unseen but essential partners in our health and function — microbes in our guts — play a role. The answer could help in developing healthcare strategies to reduce opioid addiction risks.

“Patients who need pain relief, such as after surgery, often find that a prescribed opiate no longer works as well over time, and more is needed to have the same effectiveness,” says Whistler. “We demonstrate that administering butyrate, a simple intervention that can be added to the diet, could prevent analgesic tolerance to opioids, which is an early step to opioid addiction.”

Whistler, a professor in the department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences in the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, worked with a research team that included her sister Jennifer Whistler, a professor at the University of California-Davis, and Izabella Sall, who earned her doctorate from UNH in May 2025. They found that butyrate, a molecule produced by microbes, may contribute to the variable responses and to the maintenance of opioid effectiveness in some people. Their findings, published in Gut Microbes, point to a possible strategy to help maintain opioids’ painkilling properties.

Opioids and gut microbiota

Genetic differences between humans can help to explain different responses to drugs, but even mice bred to be as genetically identical as possible show variability in opioid response. Over time, most mice and humans develop opioid tolerance — a condition that reduces the drug’s ability to block pain. Taking higher doses can lead to increased dependence and opioid use disorders, with a high risk of overdose. Understanding why people respond differently to opioid medications provides the opportunity to tailor their administration to maximize clinical effectiveness and minimize serious side effects.

Whistler focuses on gut microbiota, an important player in a wide range of functions. Gut microbes produce molecules that affect the brain, such as neurotransmitters, and microbial populations can differ between individual people. The ways in which they influence health and disease are the subject of many ongoing studies.

Regardless of the individual, there is an array of microbial species and communities, collectively known as the microbiome, present in everyone’s gut. Some are actively beneficial, such as Lactobacillus, which has been found to help suppress inflammatory responses. Others, such as Streptococcus, can be pathogenic in certain contexts. While there is no “ideal” gut microbiome, maintaining a balance between the various microbial communities is thought to contribute to healthy function.

"Butyrate, whether produced by microbes or added to the diet, may provide protection from opioid tolerance"

It is well recognized that opioids disrupt gut microbe balance. Prior research has also suggested that the disruption may contribute to increased tolerance to opioids, lessening their painkilling effectiveness. Whistler and her research team delved deeper, fully characterizing the gut microbe populations in mice prior to opioid (morphine) ingestion and how morphine affected them over time.

The microbiota were highly variable even before morphine exposure, despite the mice being the same age, sex and genetic makeup. Importantly, the researchers found consistent, noteworthy differences between the microbiota in mice that developed opioid tolerance and those that did not.

Possible mechanisms for avoiding opioid tolerance

In just under 40% of mice, morphine retained full pain-blocking effectiveness. In the remaining 60%, the mice developed tolerance to morphine, a condition that would result in needing higher levels of morphine for effective pain management. For the animals in which the drug’s effectiveness waned, the researchers observed that microbiota instability developed more quickly, and their overall population of beneficial microbes were depleted earlier. What most distinguished the mice that did not develop morphine tolerance was the retention of microbes associated with the production of butyrate, a short-chain fatty acid.

Butyrate has several beneficial functions, serving as an anti-inflammatory and enhancing intestinal barrier integrity. While the most abundant microbe found to be associated with non-tolerance, Akkermansia muciniphila, does not produce butyrate itself, it fosters the growth of butyrate producers and stimulates mucin production. The researchers also found that dietary butyrate supplementation blocked opioid tolerance when compared with a control supplement.

“Our findings provide evidence that gut microbiota have important effects on opioid response and the development of tolerance,” says Whistler. “More research is needed to further explore the mechanisms involved, but butyrate, whether produced by microbes or added to the diet, may provide protection from opioid tolerance. If so, clinicians can apply these findings to use opioids more effectively for pain management, with lower associated risks.”

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Government Shutdown Could Leave Markets Vulnerable to Insider Trading, UNH Expert Says

ket1007 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:49:25 +0000

When the federal government shuts down, agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are forced to furlough most of their staff. That means there are fewer regulators overseeing insider trading — trades made by company executives or others with access to non-public information.

Daniel Bens, professor of accounting at UNH’s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, is involved in preliminary research that shows that insider trading spiked during the last prolonged shutdown from Dec. 27, 2018 to Jan. 25, 2019, when the SEC furloughed 94% of its staff.

Bens and fellow researchers — Gavin Cassar, Ying Huang, and Thomas Keusch from INSEAD — analyzed thousands of insider stock trades, comparing the trade activity of U.S. firms during the shutdown with other years, as well as with firms in other countries where oversight continued. They also reviewed SEC enforcement records before, during, and after the shutdown. The preprint research is posted on SSRN and is currently in a second round of peer review at “The Accounting Review.”

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What has the research revealed about insider trading during the last shutdown?

We found that insider trades during the shutdown were unusually profitable, averaging 0.016% of a firm’s market value compared to 0.011% in normal periods. For a company worth around $14.6 billion (the average value within the study’s sample), that translated into an extra $800,000 to $1.6 million in profit on a single trade compared to similar trades in other years.

Much of the gain came from “opportunistic” sales — trades timed around nonpublic information rather than routine, pre-scheduled transactions.

Did this happen immediately after the government shut down?

Not during the first week of the shutdown, likely because insiders were unsure whether SEC enforcement would be disrupted. But, once it stretched past the first week, insiders likely became more confident with the limited enforcement, and insider trading profits increased significantly.

What does an increase in insider trading mean to the average investor?

It’s a matter of market fairness.

I can’t say it is something that should prevent anyone from investing. However, it does mean that an individual investor is at more of an information disadvantage if insiders are trading on their private information So, they may be trading with someone with better information, which means the outsider could buy or sell at the ‘wrong’ price.

Does it mean they’ll lose all of their money? No. Does it mean they have a lower chance of higher profits? Yes.

Did the SEC recognize this uptick in insider trading during the last shutdown?

I’m not aware.

Can we expect a similar situation if the current shutdown persists?

The SEC website indicates that just about all activities are being stopped until funding resumes.

What lesson could the SEC take from your research?

I think the most practical thing to do would be to look back at the activities that occurred once they get back to work, and use analytical tools more aggressively to detect unusual patterns. This is a tradeoff between new oversight and looking in the past, so each manager would have to make that call. But our research suggests that looking backward should be more carefully considered.

What motivated your research into this issue?

There’s an ongoing debate about whether the SEC should be self-funded, like the Federal Reserve, rather than having its budget tied to congressional approval. As researchers, we don’t take a stand on that issue, but we aim to provide evidence that can contribute to the conversation.

It would be advisable to have a reserve fund for enforcement activities. The government would have to decide what the most important things are — like they currently do with the TSA at airports and borders. Perhaps SEC enforcement should continue as well. But this is a slippery slope, as all agencies could make the same argument.

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Wildcats For Life Campaign Helps Provide Comprehensive Support for Student-Athletes

ket1007 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:06:29 +0000

Colby Ramshaw has dreamed of attending UNH for about as long as he can remember. As a young football player and “New Hampshire kid,” he was hoping for a chance to one day join the Wildcats on the gridiron.

Thanks in part to a full scholarship, he was able to fulfill that dream.

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Your support for the Wildcat Athletics Fund has a significant impact on all our student-athletes and enables us to provide the resources and opportunities that impact their time at UNH and beyond. The Wildcats for Life campaign, which wraps up on Oct. 10, directly strengthens this fund and makes it possible for us to offer advances in health and well-being, academic and athletic performance, and personal development. Join us in making a real difference for Wildcats on and off the field by making your gift to the Wildcat Athletics Fund during this dedicated campaign, or any time throughout the year.

“Being from New Hampshire, UNH is really the school I always wanted to attend,” Ramshaw says. “To have the opportunity to not only play football here, but to receive a scholarship and to be able to use all the different resources it provides is super important, and something that I’ve been very grateful for.”

That gratitude has only grown in the wake of some physical adversity, and has extended to include donors to the Wildcat Athletics Fund through the Wildcats for Life campaign. Ramshaw tore the ACL in his knee early this football season, and he credits the UNH athletic training staff and rehab facilities on campus for helping him through his pre-recovery prior to heading into surgery.

The Wildcats for Life campaign plays a critical role in providing resources like that to student-athletes across all sports at UNH. Now in its third year of existence, the campaign is designed to foster a sense of enduring pride.

“The key for us is providing such an outstanding experience while they are here that these student-athletes remain engaged with us as Wildcats for life. It’s a bit of a full circle thing, showing them that they are part of something bigger than themselves,” says UNH Director of Athletics Allison Rich. “It’s about providing the support and resources our student-athletes need to be successful both during their time at UNH and when they go out in the world and contribute as global citizens.”

The Wildcats for Life campaign has three primary pillars – health and well-being, academic support, and travel for postseason championships. Health and well-being covers all facets of physical and mental health, including things like fueling stations where students can grab snacks on the run to keep energy up for practice, as well as athletic medicine and conditioning support and ensuring that UNH has access to the latest recovery modalities and strength and conditioning resources. It also includes dedicated mental health support for student-athletes on a weekly basis.

Academic support covers a wide range of things off the field, from life-skills training to career preparedness and development. Alumni often return to campus for speed networking panels where they can talk to students about different career paths, and student-athletes can also take advantage of help learning how to write a resume or gaining financial education to teach them about fiscal responsibility.

Travel for postseason championships covers the cost when UNH teams must travel from campus to participate in playoffs and tournaments, including hotel rooms and making sure student-athletes have access to proper nutrition ahead of competition.

The impact of that donor support is certainly felt by the student-athletes, as evidenced by Ramshaw’s experience. The scholarship that helped bring him to UNH and the treatment options available to him as he rehabs a significant injury are the kinds of things that encourage a lifelong relationship with the university.

“It means a lot to know that the experiences of our alumni are so good here that they want to contribute to future athletes and hopefully improve their time on campus,” Ramshaw says. “I definitely wouldn’t be in the situation I’m in now without the people who came before me.”

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Crowds Flood Campus with Wildcat Spirit for Homecoming 2025

ket1007 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:48:47 +0000

Homecoming weekend was as lively as ever Oct. 3-5, as alumni descended on campus in droves and joined current UNH students in showing off their Wildcat pride. Friends were reunited at events throughout campus and energized crowds filled the stands at several athletic events, including a home football game on Saturday afternoon. We were there to grab some of the many highlights, which you can relive in our photo carousel above and in the videos linked below. You can also explore a comprehensive collection of photos in our Homecoming Flickr gallery. Thanks for yet another memorable Homecoming weekend, Wildcats!

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Lighting Ceremony Celebrates Illumination of Tucker Field, Culmination of $2M Gift

ket1007 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:27:06 +0000

UNH held a lighting ceremony at Tucker Field during halftime of the women’s soccer game Oct. 2, officially illuminating the lights surrounding the field made possible by a $2 million gift from Greg and Corinna Tucker that was announced in 2024.

Speakers at the ceremony included the Tuckers, as well as UNH President Elizabeth Chilton and UNH Director of Athletics Allison Rich. Members of the UNH men’s soccer and women’s lacrosse teams – the other UNH programs to call the field home – and youth groups from the Oyster River Youth Association (ORYA) and Stratham were also on hand.

At the conclusion of the speaking program, the crowd joined in for a countdown before the lights were turned on.

“We are here to celebrate the lighting of this field — a powerful symbol of energy, pride, and possibility at UNH. Light brings people together, and tonight it shines on a facility that will strengthen our community for generations,” Chilton said during her remarks. “This moment would not be possible without the extraordinary generosity of the Tucker family. On behalf of UNH, I want to extend our deepest thanks. Your philanthropy has transformed this space, making it more accessible, more inclusive, and more impactful for student-athletes and community members alike.”

The Tuckers are longtime supporters of UNH Athletics, and their gift for the lights was a significant step in transforming Tucker Field into a stadium. In addition to housing UNH teams, Tucker Field provides community space for the Oyster River Youth Association (ORYA).

Tucker Field was built during the 2018-19 academic year and has been a resource for UNH varsity programs, ORYA, and other community groups.

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History Professor Explores War’s Impact on Global Societies

bhf2 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:32:24 +0000

The impact of war on societies across the globe from the third to sixteenth centuries is the subject of a new book by David Bachrach, professor of history. “Warfare in the Global Middle Ages” (Routledge Press, 2025) explores how societies in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas organized for war, engaged in conflict, and coped with its aftermath.

The book, intended for academic historians as well as for an interested lay public, treats warfare in the context of world history by examining both parallel developments and interactions between societies across the globe during this time period.

“Humans have always engaged in war,” Bachrach says. “One key, therefore, to understanding how human beings organize themselves socially, politically, economically, religiously, and in every other way is to understand how they prepare for war, engage in war, and deal with the aftermath of war.”

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UNH's Vashisth Receives $2.1 Million from NIH Aimed at Advancing Therapeutic Discovery

bpayette — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:57:32 +0000

Harish Vashisth, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, has been awarded a five-year, $2.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award will support his team’s efforts to develop innovative approaches for designing new therapies to treat diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and viral infections that impact millions of Americans every day.

“I’m very humbled and encouraged by the NIH’s continued investment in my research program,” says Vashisth. “This support will allow us to pursue new research directions, strengthen collaborations across several states, and enhance supercomputing resources at UNH.”

Vashisth’s research is focused on developing unconventional approaches to design novel therapeutic agents, which underscores UNH’s growing role in biomedical research and exemplifies the university’s mission to make meaningful impact in well-being and health.

Vashisth’s computational biophysics and biomolecular simulations aim to better understand how potential new drugs—such as small molecules, peptides, and protein-based nanobodies—bind to key proteins linked to diseases. His lab will study three different families of proteins: those involved in hormonal and visual signaling, members of the G-protein family of signaling regulators, and enzymes from SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.

A key goal of the project is to explore allosteric drug design—targeting “distant” sites on proteins rather than conventional active sites. This approach could lead to more precise and effective treatments by overcoming challenges that have limited traditional drug discovery methods. For example, one class of therapeutic agents under study includes peptides derived from cone snails and viruses that mimic insulin’s function, offering potential new treatments for diabetes.

The MIRA program, run by NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), is designed to give researchers greater stability and flexibility in their work. By providing longer-term funding, it allows scientists to pursue new directions and increase the likelihood of important breakthroughs while also broadening the distribution of funding among promising investigators. MIRA awards are typically granted for five years to both early-stage and established researchers.

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Could This Year’s Drought Dull Fall Foliage Viewing? You May be Surprised

ket1007 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:13:41 +0000

Fall is in the air and thoughts turn to pumpkins, cider, and brightly colored leaves. And according to experts at the �鶹app's Cooperative Extension, despite drought conditions in the Northeast, there should be plenty of leaf peeping opportunities this year — they'll just be happening a little earlier.

“The drought is still pretty widespread but luckily there are still a lot of leaves out there and as long as there is a green canopy we’ll be able to enjoy the colors of the fall foliage,” says Steve Roberge, professor of natural resources and UNH Extension forestry specialist. “The dry conditions are causing the leaves to show off their colors earlier, and in some cases may not be as bright, but I’ve driven all around the state in the last few weeks and there is still a lot of foliage boasting those expected hues and should be more well into October.”

According to Roberge, colorful fall foliage is guided by the weather and needs sufficient rainfall during the growing season and plenty of warm, sunny days and clear, cool nights in the late summer and early autumn. He points to the fact that this year’s growing season was quite wet but there was not a lot of leaf damage or fungal issues.

“Even with all the drought, you still see color because it is already in the leaves from the rainy weather we had this spring,” says Roberge. “The color’s reveal is controlled by the length of the days and nights as we head into fall. What has been great so far are these lovely 45 degree nights that help to bring out the first reds and deep purple colors.”

When the days are warm, around 70 or 80 degrees, and the temperature drops back to around 40 degrees at night, the trees’ cells start to break down sugars. That causes the production of chlorophyll — the green color in leaves — to slow down. When that happens, the hidden pigments in the leaf, known as carotenoids and anthocyanin, are revealed causing the deep fall tones — the yellow, brown and russet, or the red and orange.

One concern for forestry experts, not related to the drought, is the spread of beech leaf disease which can claim a beech tree in one to two years. Beech leaf disease was first observed in the midwest in 2012 and has now spread to over a dozen states, including all six New England states.

Roberge said beech trees are known for their russet yellow hue — the golden glow seen near the end of fall foliage season. The disease can cause issues with photosynthesis and the heavy infestation is killing trees so there is a noticeable loss of canopy which could impact fall foliage viewing in some areas, like the New Hampshire Seacoast.

For the rest of the trees populating New England, it should be business as usual. Each tree species starts to shut down chlorophyl production at its own pace with red maples in low lying areas and swamps showing off their colors first, often in mid-August. Other species like oak, ash, birch and other maples, need the long cool nights to show off their yellows, oranges and purples.

“People always ask me when peak leaf peeping season is going to be and I always say whenever you have the time to get out and enjoy it,” said Roberge. “If you go for a drive, or a walk or simply look around, there are already plenty of red maples and yellow birches starting to show off their bright hues and are just glorious.”

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History Professor Pens “Canal Dreamers”

bhf2 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:49:47 +0000

In her new book “Canal Dreamers: The Epic Quest to Connect the Atlantic and Pacific in the Age of Revolutions” (UNC Press, 2025), associate professor of history Jessica Lepler tells the story of a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Central American isthmus. With dreams substituting for data, an international cast of politicians, lawyers, philosophers, and capitalists sent competing agents on a race to transform Lake Nicaragua, the San Juan River, and the terra incognita of Central American forests into the world’s first global waterway.

“In the 1820s, almost a century before the opening of the Panama Canal, Nicaragua looked a more promising site for the world’s greatest oceanic shortcut. The San Juan River runs from Lake Nicaragua, one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes, to the Caribbean Sea,” says Lepler. “Although the canal was not constructed, the quest’s consequences contribute to the world today.”

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UNH and Stonyfield Organic Strengthen Partnership

mw1560 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:26:04 +0000

In September 2025, the Organic Dairy Research Farm at the �鶹app (UNH) began shipping milk directly to the Stonyfield Organic processing facility in Londonderry, N.H., a move that will further strengthen the more than 20-year partnership between the New Hampshire based company and the state’s land-grant university. The recent direct marketing agreement is also intended to reinforce the mutual goal set in 2005 to support local farmers, processors and regional food systems through research and hands-on workforce development.

“About 20 years ago, Stonyfield Organic provided support for the Organic Dairy Research Farm that was essential for moving it from concept to reality,” says Anthony S. Davis, dean of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture at UNH. “We’re delighted to further strengthen our close relationship, as the dairy serves as a critical source of research that informs New Hampshire farmers and provides a learning platform for our students.”

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While the UNH Organic Dairy Research Farm (ODRF) is the closest milk producer to the Stonyfield processing facility, the partnership is enduring and multi-faceted, extending far beyond geographical proximity. Stonyfield’s mission—to support and promote organic dairy farming—predates its successful yogurt business.

“Organic dairy farming has become a very meaningful proportion of the northeast dairy marketplace over the past four decades,” says Stonyfield Organic Co-Founder and longtime former CEO Gary Hirshberg. “For instance, organic dairy farms comprise a quarter of Vermont’s dairy farms and one-third of Maine’s. And many observers believe that it is the only long term economically sustainable way to keep our region’s family farmers in business. But despite the success of the rapidly growing sector, organic farmers still face a variety of challenges.”

Identifying and helping overcome those industry challenges through discovery, innovation and workforce development are precisely the mission of the ODRF. Spanning 275 acres in Lee, N.H., the farm includes approximately 100 Jersey cows, barns, milking parlor, crop and forage fields and pastures, and woodlands —all components of a typical Northeast small grazing and organic dairy operation. What is different is the daily bustle of scientists, graduate and undergraduate students, operations staff, and industry and public visitors, all focused on developing, supporting and learning about locally inspired science.

Research and operations at the ODRF, which are supported by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station, focus on dairy nutrition, precision dairy management, pasture quality, forage production, agroforestry and natural resource management, including streams and woodlands, with impacts relevant for both organic and conventional small-scale dairies. The goal is to test new technologies and reduce innovation adoption risks for farmers and landowners in New Hampshire and beyond.

It is this mutual mission to elevate New England’s regional food system that makes the UNH and Stonyfield partnership so strong.

“The ODRF provides absolutely essential data and guidance for the best and most economically sound organic practices that are key for northern New England organic dairy farms,” adds Hirschberg. “Our support of the ODRF in turn supports the community of organic farmers and farming operations across the region on which we depend to produce our rapidly growing market-leading yogurts and other dairy products.”

The long-term vision is that the direct marketing agreement serves as a catalyst for building a stronger private–public partnership over the next 20 years. One goal would be to leverage the close proximity of the ODRF and Stonyfield to create hands-on opportunities for UNH students and researchers and for Stonyfield employees to deeply understand the scope and nuances of New Hampshire’s food supply chains, from animal management to milk production, value-added processing, and marketing a final product. The partnership will enable UNH to make a greater impact on developing the most relevant science and on training a

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"Stonyfield has stayed connected to our work from the very beginning, and now, with our direct supply relationship, the partnership takes on a deeper significance," says Jason Scruton, ORDF farm manager. "It’s exciting to see our growing partnership with Stonyfield help turn our ongoing research into real-world impact, as they share what we’re learning with their direct supply farms and the wider organic dairy community."

Founded in 1887, the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture stewards federal and state funding to scientific discovery and innovation to benefit New Hampshire’s agricultural, food, forestry and natural resources sectors and communities. The Station supports over 50 research projects that focus on locally inspired challenges and provides oversight and operations to UNH’s agricultural and forestry facilities and lands.

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A new direct marketing agreement rejuvenates decades-long private–public research and teaching connection in New Hampshire.

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College of Life Sciences & Agriculture

NH Agricultural Experiment Station

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NH Agricultural Experiment Station

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Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 9:45am

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Members of the Stonyfield Organic sales and marketing team recently visited the UNH Organic Research Dairy Farm to learn about the operation and research projects firsthand.

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UNH Today

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