Michele Dillon, dean of the UNH College of Liberal Arts (COLA) has been named the 2025 recipient of Villanova University’s prestigious Civitas Dei Medal for her “exemplary contributions to the Catholic intellectual tradition.”

Dillon is the first social scientist to receive this award and joins a distinguished group of internationally renowned theologians, legal scholars and philosophers. Dillon will deliver a lecture during the medal presentation, scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 13 at 4 p.m.

Associate professor of anthropology Casey Golomski talks to The Conversation about his new book, "God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End."

As the new year begins, industries are bracing for transformative changes driven by innovation, sustainability and emerging technologies. Experts from the University of New Hampshire are offering forward-looking insights into what’s next for sectors like agriculture, manufacturing, space, climate change and the economy.

Nada AlHaddad and Noé Lugaz, research professors who study, the solar phenomena that can result in northern lights, answer questions about this phenomenon.

New Year’s eve is in the rearview mirror but those resolutions are front and center and if you’re already struggling to keep them that is perfectly normal. Katie Godshall, a clinical assistant professor in the College of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire and an expert in the field of mental health, reminds that change can be hard and before throwing in the towel it’s important to remember why those resolutions were important in the first place.

Caleb Marrero ’25 is an aspiring physical therapist who has visions of opening a private PT practice where he can specialize in treating athletes and contribute to his field via research. In UNH’s McNair Scholars program, he found the ideal platform to help get him there.

The UNH Center for the Humanities is proud to be supporting the innovative work of three College of Liberal Arts (COLA) faculty members this academic year. Amy Michael (anthropology) has just completed her semester-long leave advancing a research project that focuses on community memory in response to long-term missing persons cases in rural spaces. This project pilots two nested studies exploring how forensic anthropologists’ work can be relevant to living persons affected by unresolved disappearances.

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire have published a groundbreaking study in Physics Letters B, a leading journal in nuclear physics. Led by postdoctoral researcher David Ruth and co-authored by UNH professor Karl Slifer and others, the paper provides new insights into the hyperfine splitting effect, which governs how electrons interact with atomic nuclei.

UNH researchers have harnessed artificial intelligence to produce and label the largest-ever database of aurora images  — about 700 million total — that could lead to better prediction of potentially harmful geomagnetic storms.

In the 1980s while visiting the USS Pampanito in San Francisco as a graduate student, Jim Connell wondered if the concept of submarines’ opposed-piston diesel engines could apply to fusion.

Recently, the fruits of that inspiration that eventually led to Connell’s U.S. patent, “System of Converging Plasma Pistons,” were recognized by the Boston Intellectual Property Association at its 14th Annual Invented Here! event.

For Connell, it honored his groundbreaking exploration, marked a milestone in his career—and potentially, in the future of energy production.