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Faculty Excellence Celebration Recognizes Outstanding UNH Educators

Every year, a chosen few of UNH’s outstanding faculty members from each college and school receive Faculty Excellence Awards in recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service. University-wide awards recognize public service, research, teaching and engagement. The 2025Ěýaward... Read More

Recent Stories

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    - UNH Research Finds Income Matters When It Comes to Access to After-School Activity
    Higher-income youth are twice as likely to be employed and one-and-a-half times as likely to participate in extracurricular activities as their lower-income counterparts,... Read More
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    - UNH Research Finds Elderly Tax Breaks Have Little Impact on Moves
    Existing state income tax breaks for the elderly result in non-trivial reductions in state revenue and offer little relief to the most vulnerable elderly, according to new... Read More
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    “Think of the recession as freezing people in place -- now that is thawing,” said Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer and public policy professor at the University of New...
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    Chilc care costs are often the tipping point in pushing low-income famililes into poverty, new research from the Âé¶ąapp's Carsey School of Public Policy...
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    - UNH Research Finds Child Care Expenses Push Low-Income Families into Poverty
    One-third of poor families who pay for child care – 207,000 nationally -- are pushed into poverty as a result of their child care expenses, according to new research released by... Read More
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    - Four UNH Students to Support Families and Communities in New Hampshire through Gov. John G. Winant Fellowships
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2017 Carsey School of Public Policy (603) 862-2821 carsey.communications@unh.edu Four UNH Students to Support Families and Communities in New... Read More
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    Beth Mattingly, director of research on vulnerable families at the Carsey School of Public Policy, discusses how nearly one-third (30.4 percent) of families with young children...
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    - UNH Research Finds More Than 95 Percent of U.S. Children Have Health Insurance
    More than 95 percent of all U.S. children were covered by some form of health insurance in 2015, the most since data started being collected in 2008, according to new research out... Read More
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    The Department of Health and Human ServicesĚýsaysĚýchild care should cost 7 percent of a family’s income at most — but 42 percent of families who buy care for young children spend...
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    A recent program sponsored by UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy examined the history and impact of land-grant universities, and was well-timed for UNH’s College of Life...