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N.H. Space Grant Trains Next Generation of Scientists

With $800,000 in funding for the first year of its four-year grant cycle, N.H. Space GrantÌýcontinues its commitment to STEM education and workforce development. Read More

Recent Stories

  • Ryan Cassotto in Greenland
    - Glacial Race
    Courtesy Photo It only sounds like a joke: When the world’s fastest-moving glacier sped up in the summer of 2012 – suddenly surging from Greenland’s west coast at four times its... Read More
  • project smart students releasing science balloon
    - Scientific Sojourn
    They found it at the edge of a Maine forest near a cornfield off a path called Potato Road. A distinctive orange hull, intact. Before it fell to the ground, it traveled along the... Read More
  • Winnacunnet High students Jenna Roy and Olivia Bessemer
    - Teens Connect With... Mutant Bacteria?!
    Winnacunnet High students Jenna Roy, left, and Olivia Bessemer, right, examine bacteria they have grown for signs that the cells have mutated and evolved.Ìý The biology labs at... Read More
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    If you build it, will they come? The Âé¶¹app's Sandra Rehan shows us her "bee hotel" and explains its role in attracting native pollinators. The research is...
  • Are Toxins Escaping our Lakes?
    - Are Toxins Escaping our Lakes?
    Lake closures in the hot summer months are often caused by cyanobacteria blooms, also know as harmful algae blooms, which release toxins that may be linked to such diseases as ALS... Read More
  • emerald ash borer larvae
    - Extension Enlists Allies to Battle Ash Tree Pest
    Emerald ash borer larvae eat away new wood that supports tree growth. The shiny green, half-inch-long bugs on display one recent evening at Canterbury Shaker Village don’t sting... Read More
  • Floyd Jackson
    - Prof
    Floyd Jackson could do just about anything. Skin a mouse with surgical precision, make wine, explore the northern wilderness by dog sled, change lives. He started by remaking his... Read More
  • Hackers
    - Hackers Beware
    This spring, some of the world's wiliest hackers gathered at UNH in an attempt to bring down powerful corporate networks. But no one on campus was worried; in fact, the hackers... Read More
  • Robotics Competition
    - Mind Games
    They waved banners and wore face paint, but the screaming fans who filled Lundholm Gym to capacity March 6 and 7 weren't in Durham for a sports event—they were teams facing off in... Read More
  • students at research project site, collecting nitrogen through urine
    - Reduce, Reuse, Peecycle
    Visitors to downtown Durham this spring might have noticed students sporting an unusual accessory: a sticker with a yellow droplet on it proclaiming "I donated my nitrogen." No... Read More