UNH Awarded $2.8 Million to Develop Robots to Care for People with Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire will receive a five-year grant totaling $2.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop and test social assistive robots to aid in the care of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease...
9-Aug-2022 8:05 AM EDT
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UNH Research Finds Repurposed Drug Inhibits Enzyme Related to COVID-19
With the end of the pandemic seemingly nowhere in sight, scientists are still very focused on finding new or alternative drugs to treat and stop the spread of COVID-19. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of New Hampshire...
22-Jun-2022 5:05 PM EDT
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UNH Research: Forest to Pasture - Keeping Trees Could Reduce Climate Consequences
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire studied a practice known as silvopasture which intentionally preserves trees in pastures where livestock graze. They found that compared to a completely cleared, tree-less, open pasture, the integrated...
17-Jun-2022 8:05 AM EDT
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UNH Research: U.S. Seafood Workers at Increased Risk for COVID-19 During Pandemic
The dramatic toll that COVID-19 has taken on the U.S. is apparent, but as caseloads come down and mandates are loosened it has become increasingly obvious how much of an impact the pandemic had on food service workers in industries like the...
21-Mar-2022 8:05 PM EDT
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UNH Researchers Find Significant Gender Pay Gap in Executive Severances
Men in executive leadership positions receive over $500,000 more in severance compensation than women, according to researchers from the University of New Hampshire and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Researchers say a gender pay gap exists in...
17-Mar-2022 2:35 PM EDT
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UNH Receives Nearly $6M to Develop Protein Sensors for Biomanufacturing
Researchers in the University New Hampshire’s Surface Enhanced Electrochemical Diagnostic Sensors (SEEDS) Lab have received an EPSCoR grant from the National Science Foundation for close to $6 million to lead a team in developing sensors to...
22-Feb-2022 8:05 AM EST
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UNH Researchers Lead NASA Mission to Explore Sun’s Impact on Space and Earth
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have been selected for one of NASA’s MIDEX space missions, part of their Heliophysics Explorers Program. UNH’s Space Science Center will lead the mission which will have a budget of $250 million,...
11-Feb-2022 9:45 AM EST
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Future of Winter: UNH Researchers Find Low Emissions Vital to Slow Warming
Winters are warming faster than summers in North America, impacting everything from ecosystems to the economy. Global climate models indicate that this trend will continue in future winters but there is a level of uncertainty around the magnitude of...
3-Feb-2022 9:55 AM EST
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Don’t Feel Bad Not Mowing the Lawn, it’s Actually a Good Thing
Not a fan of mowing the lawn? Good news, cutting the grass less may be better for the environment. Trimming the number of times you run the mower around the yard, known as “low mow”, can help reduce carbon emissions, build soil organic matter...
1-Jun-2022 6:05 PM EDT
UNH Historian Available to Comment On Lessons Learned from End of 1918 Pandemic
10-Feb-2022 11:30 AM EST
Media Availability: UNH British Historian to Comment on Queen and Britain’s Remembrance Day
11-Nov-2021 8:10 AM EST
Top oil spill expert @UofNH available to discuss impact and cleanup of major California spill
4-Oct-2021 4:30 PM EDT
Media Availability: UNH Experts Offer Comment on Biden’s First 100 Days
27-Apr-2021 11:05 AM EDT
Media Availability: UNH British Historian Comments on Prince Philip, Harry’s Return Home and Future of Monarchy
14-Apr-2021 3:40 PM EDT
UNH Expert Offers Historical Comment on Boston’s First Black Woman Mayor
23-Mar-2021 5:50 PM EDT
Media Availability: UNH British Historian to Comment on Harry and Meghan Interview and Fate of Modern Monarchy
10-Mar-2021 11:55 AM EST
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