Practice Makes Purrfect
COLSA's PAWS Veterinary Clinic provides people receiving government assistance with affordable pet wellness exams, vaccines and testing, medications, dental care and basic surgeries like spays and neuters. However, it's also an important teaching facility for students in the veterinary technology program at UNH. Read more
Planning With a Purpose
COLSA alumna Cassie Mullen ’16 helps address the Granite State's growing housing crisis as a team member with New Hampshire Housing, which provides financing and other support for affordable housing across the state. A graduate of COLSA's community and environmental planning program, she made it her mission early on in her life to work within communities and better the lives of the people living in them. Read more
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Swapping Classrooms for Cow Barns
In the student-led, two-semester Cooperative for Real Education in Agricultural Management (CREAM) course at UNH, students gain hands-on experience caring for dairy cows and managing and participating in everything from herd health to dairy production to in-class education. Read more
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Herd Mentality
Jason Johnson ’96 was among the first students to become part of the dairy management major, an option within the animal science program, when it was launched by UNH in 1992. Today, as the farmer relationship manager for Stonyfield Organic, he works with 36 direct supply farms spread across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and eastern New York, with herds ranging in size from 20 to more than 350 cows. Read more
Supporting New Hampshire’s Shellfish Farmers
When she’s not collecting invasive green crabs — and the now emerging blue crabs — in New Hampshire’s Great Bay Estuary or working in the lab at COLSA, marine biology doctoral student Kelsey Meyer shares the stories of the region’s shellfish farmers as coordinator of the NH Shellfish Farmers Initiative. Read more
Advancing an Industry
When Michael Paglia ’02G joined the ElevateBio team in 2017 as its fourth employee, he knew that co-founders David Hallal ’88, Vikas Sinha and Mitchell Finer were approaching cell and gene therapy production in a groundbreaking way. Their goal, and his, was to merge science and technology, creating infrastructure and acquiring state-of-the-art development and manufacturing technologies to support their company’s therapeutic needs and those of other biotechnology firms, both large and small. Read more
Spotlight on Skill Building
Skill building sits at the core of the programs and courses at the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. Just ask our students and faculty!
Remote Sensing: Looking at Land
With COLSA Student Shea O’Connor
Flow Cytometry: Studying Proteins
With Faculty Sherine Elsawa
Animal Management: PEEP'in Out
With Faculty Vanessa Grunkemeyer
Cutting-Edge Careers
The UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture’s one-year master’s degrees in molecular and cellular biotechnology (MCBT) and in bioinformatics equip students with the advanced training and connections necessary to either break into biotechnology or the management of biological data or accelerate their careers. Read more
Careers in High Gear
COLSA’s St. Martin Career Exploration Office launched in 2016, catalyzed by a significant donation from Christine Carberry ’82, who wanted both to honor her parents with her gift and to provide students with a resource that would allow them to explore, from day one, the many careers they can pursue with their degrees. Read more
Standout Success
For students planning to apply to a professional health graduate program, preparation begins at UNH’s PreProfessional Health Programs Advising Office. The one-stop shop guides students as they explore different health professions, reviews required prerequisite courses and creates academic plans, helps select experiential opportunities that strengthen applications and aids the application process. Read more
Love for the Lab
Svetlana (Lana) Gerace ’22, who first worked in healthcare as a hospital administrative assistant in Russia before she emigrated to the United States in 2012, graduated from UNH in December 2022 with a medical laboratory science degree. Before even graduating UNH, she was offered a full-time position at Concord Hospital. Read more
Instrumental Skills
A new NIKON A1R-HD confocal microscope in UNH’s University Instrumentation Center gives researchers the ability to image deep into tissues and create high resolution 3D reconstructions. Since it was purchased in 2018, groups in 33 research labs have been trained to use it in research ranging from coastal wetland ecology and entomology to neuroscience, cancer and immunology. Read more
COLSA alumna
Cassie Mullen ’16
Pre-Professional Health
Student Sabah Sabir
Pre-Professional Health
Student Makram Elkhach
Spotlight on Skill Building
Skill building sits at the core of the programs and courses at the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. Just ask our students and faculty!
Remote Sensing: Looking at Land
With COLSA Student Shea O’Connor
Flow Cytometry: Studying Proteins
With Faculty Sherine Elsawa
Animal Management: PEEP'in Out
With Faculty Vanessa Grunkemeyer
The UNH CREAM Program
The PAWS Veterinary Clinic
THRIVE Spring 2023
Published on March, 2023
The spring 2023 issue of the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture's THRIVE magazine focuses on biotechnology training and other workforce development programs and stories spanning COLSA. Learn about students and alum advancing medicine and care for humans and animals alike, helping to solve Granite State issues like growing access to affordable housing, and preparing new generations of COLSA graduates for in-demand workforce careers.
