UNH Research
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High-impact research and scholarship from the University of New Hampshire, the state's flagship public research university. R1, Land-, Sea-, Space-Grant institution.
🐟 Good news, seafood lovers: UNH will lead a new NOAA effort to grow and strengthen America’s seafood supply through aquaculture research. www.unh.edu/news/unh-lea...
UNH to Lead Major NOAA Effort to Strengthen America’s Seafood Supply
Good news for seafood lovers: The University of New Hampshire will lead a new national effort to grow and strengthen America’s seafood supply through aquaculture research.
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🤖 Robbie the robot looks like a coat rack. Can this UNH-designed innovation help seniors maintain their independence? Yes, one couple tells The Associated Press. Watch Robbie in action with Brian and Brenda: apnews.com/article/robo...
A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?
The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some develo...
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⚡️What causes lightning? We’re getting closer to solving the mystery, UNH physics professor Joe Dwyer tells @quantamagazine.bsky.social, but there’s still a lot we don’t know. www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-...
What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting. | Quanta Magazine
Armed with a slew of new instruments, physicists are closing in on one of nature’s oldest mysteries — and finding that storm clouds are seething with violent and unexpected phenomena.
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“There is this feeling that you’re supposed to read a book like this and walk away an expert. That’s actually not the point of this book at all. The point is to wander through physics,” @chanda.blacksky.app tells @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social in @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...
A Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry From the Cosmic Edge
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Every $100 of federal research funding to UNH — grants and contracts from agencies such as NSF, NOAA, NASA, or NIH — generates an additional $77 in economic activity. www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
Federally Funded Research Generates Significant Economic Benefit to N.H.
For every $100 in federal funding, UNH generates an additional $77 in economic activity, according to a recent report.
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Keeping structures like bridges, buildings, or airplanes safe is complex and expensive. UNH’s Innovator of the Year Yashar Azam has created techniques that could save money, use fewer resources, and possibly extend the life of these structures by 500%. More: www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
Innovator of the Year’s Technology Is Making Our Bridges and Structures Safer
Yashar Azam, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is the 2026 Innovator of the Year. His digital twinning techniques aim to make structures like bridges and airplanes safer.
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This Earth Day, we celebrate clean water, healthy ecosystems, and two UNH Sustainability Institute interns working to safeguard both. www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
Student Stormwater Research Helping Keep Community Ecosystems Healthy
Allison Kish and Annie Ragland have been performing stormwater testing and research at UNH, assisting the university’s stormwater team in keeping surrounding community ecosystems – like the Great Bay ...
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⛷️ A majority of professionals working in New Hampshire’s robust ski industry are concerned about the effects of climate change on the enterprise in the Granite State and believe more should be done, a new study from UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy finds. www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
New Hampshire Ski Professionals Are Concerned About Climate Change
New research from UNH's Carsey School of Public Policy finds a large majority — 85% — of professionals working in New Hampshire's ski industry are concerned about the effects of climate change.
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In the U.S. war with Iran, civilian infrastructures have become targets. What are the effects and consequences for people and the environment? UNH political science and international affairs professor Jeannie Sowers shares her insights in this Q and A. www.unh.edu/news/2026/04...
Electrons may be negative, but they can smile! 😍 That’s what UNH researcher Jason Shuster found in the protective bubble that shields the Earth from powerful space weather events exploding from the Sun. Read the full story: www.unh.edu/news/2026/02...
Scientists Find Electrons 'Smiling' in Earth’s Magnetic Shield
UNH research uncovers surprising patterns in how electrons move inside space weather explosions.
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Groundbreaking news! (Literally.) UNH has broken ground on a new 70,500-square foot building that will house the Center of Excellence for Operational Ocean and Great Lakes Mapping and the growing number of industry partners seeking to collaborate with UNH. More: www.unh.edu/news/2026/02...
Get the lead out! UNH has developed a dashboard that tracks drinking water lead levels at schools and childcare facilities in N.H. It's a partnership w NH Dept of Environmental Services. More: www.unh.edu/news/2026/01...
How Safe is Your Child’s Drinking Water?
New Hampshire parents can now easily access information about the lead levels in drinking water at their child’s school or child care in any part of the state.
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How clean is the Hudson River? Ph.D. student John Henkelman canoed all 315 miles, from the Adirondaks to New York City, to find out: www.unh.edu/news/2026/01...
Chilly? 🥶Take some tips on dressing warmly from a researcher whose field work takes her to the Arctic. Check out these hot takes from Ph.D. candidate Cheristy Jones: youtu.be/imMtmg0gs7I?...
How to stay warm in the cold: Tips from an arctic researcher
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Sometimes, launching a career in space science means launching a rocket 🚀! That’s what 15 UNH students did last month in the Arctic, when NASA’s RENU 3 sounding rocket blasted off from Norway to measure the underlying physics behind the northern lights. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
RENU 3 Rocket Blasts Off With UNH Technology on Board
UNH scientists and students designed and built 10 space instruments to study atmospheric phenomena that affect satellites and GPS communications.
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DYK the concept of emotional intelligence — the ability to perceive and understand emotions — has its roots at UNH? Professor of psychology Jack Mayer and colleagues developed a widely used measure that has become a national standard among psychologists. youtu.be/Dir_E4llzkA?...
UNH Faculty Excellence: John D. Mayer
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Last week, a satellite 🛰️ designed and built by undergraduates blasted toward the sun ☀️, where it will study solar wind and its effects on space weather. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
Tiny Satellite Built by UNH Students Blasts Off to Space
When the Falcon 9 rocket blasted off the day after Thanksgiving, it carried with it years of hard work — and the hopes and dreams — of 26 UNH undergraduate students who built a miniature satellite to ...
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With a $2.1M NIH grant, UNH researchers will develop new treatments for diseases that impact millions of people every day. Watch on News Center Maine: www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...
UNH secures $2.1M NIH grant to innovate treatment for major diseases
Over the next five years, researchers will develop new treatments for diseases that impact millions of people every day.
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Why do ginkgo trees drop their leaves all at once 🍁? And what does one UNH tree tell us about climate change? Professor Serita Frey explains it all: youtube.com/shorts/23cYM...
Did you know that a Ginkgo trees drop all their leaves at once?
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Toxic mercury 🌡️ that has long been trapped in coastal sediments is being released into the water column, due to more frequent coastal storms and an uptick in dredging, UNH researchers found. That’s bad news for marine life 🐠 and seafood consumers. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
Mercury Stored in Coastal Sediments Is Making a Comeback
Buried deep in the sediments of the world’s coastal shelves, the toxic metal mercury has, to some degree, been locked away from entering the marine food chain. Now, a study co-authored by a UNH resear...
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🧲 New UNH, research published in Nature Communications, harnesses artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new functional magnetic materials, which could reduce our reliance on hard-to-obtain rare earth elements needed for the magnets that power our world. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
UNH Researchers Harness AI to Discover Magnetic Materials
Study authors Suman Itani, a PH.D. student in physics (left) and postdoctoral researcher Yibo Zhang. Photo by Jiadong Zang. Magnets are at the core of the technology that powers our world: smartphones...
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🎣 The future of fishing floats at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, where delicious steelhead trout grow alongside mussels and kelp in UNH’s innovative AquaFort. @wmur9.bsky.social follows the fish from pen to plate. www.wmur.com/article/chro...
AquaFort fish project aims to produce more local fish, help local fishermen
Those who run this fish farm hope more fishermen will invest in small farms like this and add it to their workflow (via NH Chronicle).
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Congratulations @chanda.blacksky.app !
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 10mo agoWent back to Santa Cruz on October 17 and picked up the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award! Back in September they sent a camera crew to @unhresearch.bsky.social to interview me. Here's the video they made about my journey as a physicist/astronomer and my time as a banana slug.
UNH's Great Bay Archaeological Survey , a community-engaged archaeology research program, recently helped a nearby landowner uncover early colonial structures on his property. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
Archaeology Dig Showcases Power of Community Connections
In partnership with a landowner in nearby Madbury, UNH Professor Meghan Howey and her colleagues were able to identify the site of a 1701 garrison known as the Meserve Garrison, completing a dig at th...
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With a $2.1 NIH MIRA award Harish Vashisth, a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering, will develop innovative approaches for new therapies to treat diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and viral infections that impact millions of Americans every day. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
UNH's Vashisth Receives $2.1 Million from NIH Aimed at Advancing Therapeutic Discovery
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...
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Zigzags in magnetic field lines might not occur only near the Sun. New #AGUPubs research by @unhresearch.bsky.social eos.org/research-spo...
Magnetic “Switchback” Detected near Earth for First Time - Eos
Until recently, this type of zigzag shape—formed by energetic rearrangement of magnetic field lines—had been seen only near the Sun.
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This summer, UNH ocean mapping researchers helped discover WWII shipwrecks in the Solomon Islands. @chronicle5.bsky.social shares the story. @nautiluslive.org www.wcvb.com/article/unco...
Uncovering naval history in the Solomon Islands
Researchers from the University of New Hampshire and partners explored Iron Bottom Sound, uncovering naval wrecks and honoring the thousands who perished there.
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🚀☀️Last week NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe spacecraft blasted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying a major instrument designed and built by UNH. Physics prof Nathan Schwadron explains its goals. youtu.be/FwLdlo4DwFE?...
UNH and IMAP-Lo
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Did walkable neighborhoods help ease pandemic mental health declines?🚶♀️➡️UNH professor Karen Conway found found that increasing a neighborhood’s walkability was associated with a 4% reduction in mental health declines. www.unh.edu/unhtoday/202...
UNH Study Finds Walkable Neighborhoods Eased Pandemic Mental Health Declines
UNH economist Karen Conway’s new study finds that walkable neighborhoods helped buffer pandemic-related mental health declines. Using national data, she and collaborator Andrea Menclova showed that ev...
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Greetings from the North Pole! 🥶Larry Mayer, director of UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, tagged the top of the world recently as part of a scientific expedition on board the Swedish icebreaker Oden. He's leading an effort to map the seabed in the Arctic Ocean.
