Announcements
NEW DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY EPSCoR AWARD
Three UNH researchers received prestigious grants that will connect them with the Department of Energy’s national laboratories to pursue research that aims to understand the early universe through ultralight dark matter, turn sunlight into energy-rich fuel, and help develop a groundbreaking national nuclear physics project. The award is made possible through the DOE's Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program.
Major NSF funding will advance New Hampshire’s science and technology leadership
$8M grant boosts research capacity of community colleges, undergraduate-serving institutions, industry
New Hampshire will advance its leadership as an innovator in science and technology and increase its STEM workforce with investments across the state’s institutions of higher education, funded by a major National Science Foundation grant. The $8 million cooperative agreement award to UNH, one of just three of its type in the nation, aims to increase research opportunities, mentoring, training, and partnerships between New Hampshire’s community colleges, four-year colleges and universities and industry.
Congratulations
NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award
Our heartiest congratulations to UNH Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor and NH BioMade researcher Linqing Li for receiving an NIH MIRA (R35) award! His lab will be investigating, "Combining soluble and bound factors in microstructured hydrogels to promote chronic wound angiogenesis and healing".
NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award
UNH Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nate Oldenhuis was also selected for an R35 MIRA award. His research lab will explore, "Using DNA hydrogels to mimic, exploit, and fundamentally investigate extracellular matrices". Their research aims to demonstrate the broad utility of DNA-based hydrogels and their potential to revolutionize regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biosensing.
Project Highlights
NH Creates Success Story
Last year, Karen McAlpine, a middle school teacher at Moultonborough Academy, was the subject of a great piece in the Laconia Daily Sun focused on the new curriculum she has developed around regenerative medicine. A graduate of the Tech for Teachers Institute, Karen is introducing her students to the extraordinary powers of planaria and sea slugs—both of which can regenerate lost body parts.