Spotlight

Kaylee Finch ’25 is a wildlife and conservation biology major who is spending her summer teaching children about wildlife and inspiring them to care about animals and their environment.

Nicole Benjamin ’24 is a genetics major who is spending the summer as a research assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Wildlife and conservation biology major Lydia Rheinhardt ’24 answers a few questions about her summer internship at the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station research technician Renee Goyette spent years running her own farm and selling produce at local farmers’ markets, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) operations, and restaurants before she began working at UNH with the late UNH researcher and…

Ryan Fleury ’23 is a forestry major with a minor in geospatial analysis. COLSA: Why did you choose UNH? Ryan Fleury: I choose UNH because it is the state school for New Hampshire, and I had heard good things about the education it provides.

Jon Whitehouse, manager of the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center, has spent close to four decades running this conventional dairy farm and research center located at the University of New Hampshire.

Makayla Edgecomb is a community and environmental planning major with minors in environmental conservation and sustainability and business administration. In 2021, Makayla won the merit-based Granite State Development Corporation scholarship, which covered her tuition, room and board costs for her…

Meet Torin Scalora-Riley, an Armed Forces veteran studying ways to mitigate climate change impacts. He is majoring in environmental science with a minor in outdoor adventure recreation. Aside from his academic pursuits, Torin is planning to climb Mount Rainier in Washington in June 2023 to raise…

Liza Balet '23 is a wildlife and conservation biology major and animal science minor from Ballston Spa, N.Y.

UNH woodlands manager Steve Eisenhaure ’97 oversees the Office of Woodlands and Natural Areas, teaches forest management at UNH and has been recognized for his work supporting and advancing New England’s forestry industry.

A specimen from the Albion R. Hodgdon Herbarium at UNH is being featured in the Maine Historical Society's exhibit CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections. The flora was collected in 1893 by Kate Furbish, whose many specimens are now held at the herbarium.

Anna Wallingford looks at the potential success of mixing the feeding stimulant with insecticides to attract and target only pest insects rather than spraying broader insecticides.