Wildcat Spotlight

Natalie Cook ’23, an ocean engineering major from Brookline, New Hampshire, secured an at-sea internship with the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration and is documenting her experience.

Madeline Edwards ’21, who recently earned a Ph.D. in Integrated Applied Mathematics, was named the outstanding teaching award winner amongst graduate students. The award acknowledges and honor professors, lecturers and graduate assistants for their excellence in teaching. The awards, established...

Angela Hampson, who completed an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and graduate degree in ocean engineering, mentors with STEM outreach program she attended as a teen.

Julia Hilinski, an Analytics and Data Science mjor in the Computer Science department, was awarded the Department of Defense SMART Scholarship at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.  This scholarship provides full tuition, summer internships, and full-time employment with the Department of Defense after...

Mechanical engineering's Oscany Rodriguez DeJesus '21 transfered from Manchester Community College and got plenty of hands-on experience through the John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center.

Civil engineering's Maggie Fillion '20 turned a fall class field trip into an internship and career opportunity with Shea Concrete. Her experience was documented in a podcast...

Peter Haber's research is featured in UNH Inquiry on the asteroid that collided with the Yucatan Peninsula approximately 66 million years ago, marking the end of the Cretaceous period.

Dylan Wheeler ’20 has been described as a person who lives in a universe with 28-hour days. Here’s why: he’s founded two startups and he hasn’t even graduated yet. He launched the first one during his freshman year, and it has helped pay his way through UNH. He also has his own website...

Before Lihy Buchbinder ’21 arrived at UNH, she had a cultural experience that few students have: In December 2014, having  finished high school, Buchbinder returned to her homeland to serve in the Israeli Army.

Meghan White graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a bachelor of science in environmental engineering in 2018 before beginning her master’s degree in civil engineering in August of 2018. The Wakefield, Massachusetts native chose civil engineering because of her passion for helping to...

The Ocean Engineering program at UNH has allowed me to apply my undergraduate experience in chemical engineering and use it for research that has a much greater interest for me.

Why did you choose to attend UNH? The people.  I visited a number of schools, and the people on this campus made the decision pretty easy for me. What have you learned that has made a difference to you? The study of oceanic sciences will always be critical to peoples’ knowledge because it is always...