Student Spotlights

The McNair program has helped me apply the tools I get from classes and learn in a more productive manner,¡± Linton says. During the summer, Linton, a member of the National Society of Black Engineers, was one of 15 students to present their research at the UNH McNair Scholar research symposium.¡­

A New Alternative to Buying Textbooks - Joel Nkounkou ¡¯18 turned an idea into?a new business venture with the help of UNH's Peter T. Paul?Entrepreneurship Center, and he now proudly calls several of his former classmates and teammates his colleagues. Hear the story of Joel's vision and the path to¡­

There aren¡¯t a lot of white people in the Bronx, Santos says. At UNH, it is just the opposite. But it wasn¡¯t the lack of a diverse population that she found challenging; it was the small things, like figures of speech and expressions. Her plan to become a doctor is rooted in her experience growing¡­

¡°I want to understand what indigenous communities already know about climate change through generational and observational knowledge and understand how scientists can better engage the communities in which they work to produce a more collaborative approach to research,¡± she says.

UNH gave Alexis Gray the confidence to be the person she wanted to be, and now her career is taking off. The economics major at Paul College of Business and Economics has secured a job as a member of L.L. Bean¡¯s media team.

Monica sustained a spinal cord injury in a skiing accident, she now works as an Adjunct Professor at Southern Maine Community College and works as an advocate for people with disabilities.

Christina Eddleman (Environmental Engineering, '19) is an honors student who has received a Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship, Her sponsoring facility is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District. She was recently involved with a project to bring¡­