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Joel Johnson, professor and chair of UNH’s Department of Earth Sciences, was recently selected as a lecturer for the prestigious 2024-2025 Ocean Discovery Lecture Series. For more than 20 years, the Ocean Discovery Lecture Series (formerly the Distinguished Lecturer Series) has brought the exciting scientific results and discoveries of the International Ocean Discovery Progr a.m. (IODP) and its predecessor progr a.m.s to academic research institutions, museums and aquaria. “It is an honor to be selected as an Ocean Discovery Lecturer,” says Johnson, who lecture is title Embrace diagenesis: The role of methane in carbon and sulfur sequestration in marine sediments. “I a.m. eager to share some of my own research discoveries with others.” Johnson, whose research career began in the Ocean Drilling...

New grants from NASA and the National Science Foundation further UNH research into magnetospheric processes.

UNH’s Institute on Disability (IOD) was represented at the White House last week, as Kelly Nye-Lengerman, director of the IOD, spoke at the Communities in Action: Building a Better Maine, New H a.m.pshire, and Vermont event.

The University of New H a.m.pshire was once again strongly represented on the Union Leader’s annual 40 Under Forty award list this year, with eight state residents to have earned undergraduate or graduate degrees from UNH – and another from Granite State College, now the UNH College of Professional Studies (CPS) – recognized. Those with direct UNH ties accounted for 20 percent of the list, and all three UNH c a.m.puses and CPS were represented by the UNH honorees. The recipients from UNH and the rest of the awardees were honored at a March 6 ceremony at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. The list recognizes New H a.m.pshire residents under the age of 40 who are making a difference in their communities and professions and who “eagerly give their time and talents to volunteer pursuits that...