UNH receives $8M NSF grant to advance New Hampshire’s science and

DURHAM, N.H.—New Hampshire will enhance its analysis management as an innovator in science and expertise and improve its STEM workforce with investments throughout the state’s establishments of upper training, due to an $8 million grant to the College of New Hampshire from the Nationwide Science Basis. The cooperative settlement award, certainly one of simply three of its sort within the nation, goals to extend analysis alternatives, mentoring, coaching and partnerships between New Hampshire’s neighborhood faculties, four-year faculties and universities and business.

“With this assist, UNH will collaborate throughout New Hampshire to create a extra sturdy analysis infrastructure that enables all establishments within the state to extra meaningfully take part in funded analysis tasks, constructing New Hampshire’s STEM workforce and driving the state’s innovation economic system,” mentioned Marian McCord, senior vice provost for analysis, financial engagement and outreach and principal investigator on the grant.

The initiative, known as New Hampshire Lengthy-term Funding to Gas Transformative analysis (NH-LIFT), will present a number of totally different alternatives—for college students to pursue analysis experiences in areas that align with their pursuits; for educational and business researchers to develop their analysis pursuits by means of exterior funding and accessible analysis infrastructure; and for the state to extend and retain a talented workforce-ready inhabitants.

Amongst NH-LIFT’s initiatives are:

• Creating a statewide community of analysis amenities to broaden entry to superior instrumentation and technical experience.
• Rising scholar and early-career researcher success by means of cross-institution programming and partnerships that assist analysis, mentoring, profession growth and retention.
• Bettering analysis assist and repair capability at primarily undergraduate establishments and small companies.

“New Hampshire’s analysis neighborhood drives scientific progress. It creates jobs, strengthens our native economic system and addresses a few of our nation’s most urgent challenges,” mentioned Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, chair of the U.S. Senate Small Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Committee and chair of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Associated Companies. “I’ve little doubt that with this award the New Hampshire Lengthy-term Funding to Gas Transformational Analysis (NH-LIFT) venture, spearheaded by the College of New Hampshire, will obtain nice outcomes. By collaborations like these, New Hampshire’s faculties and universities have proven they’ll practice and ship America’s subsequent STEM leaders. This award is a win for the Granite State’s scientific neighborhood. I look ahead to following and celebrating its outcomes whereas persevering with to struggle for investments, by means of the EPSCoR program, that profit the state of New Hampshire.”

“The NH-LIFT venture encapsulates New Hampshire’s modern spirit by bringing collectively New Hampshire faculties and universities with our companies to drive our economic system ahead,” mentioned Sen. Maggie Hassan. “I labored throughout the aisle to assist develop and go into legislation the Chips and Science Act in order that tasks like this one can be attainable, and I’m excited to see $8 million coming to our state to assist strengthen innovative analysis and our STEM workforce.”

Companions within the four-year NH-LIFT initiative are the Neighborhood Faculty System of New Hampshire; UNH and Dartmouth Faculty, the state’s two analysis universities; and primarily undergraduate-serving establishments Antioch College New England, Colby-Sawyer Faculty, Franklin Pierce College, Keene State Faculty, New England Faculty, Plymouth State College and Saint Anselm Faculty.

By partaking the complete spectrum of post-secondary training within the state, NH-LIFT goals to develop alternatives to contribute to the state’s innovation-based economies to extra college students who’re ethnically numerous, first-generation or from low socioeconomic backgrounds.

“To construct sustainable analysis capability, we’re leveraging particular person institutional strengths throughout the state and creating enduring networks,” mentioned Melinda Treadwell, president of Keene State Faculty. “At Keene State Faculty, we look ahead to constructing upon current collaborative partnerships throughout the state to boost alternatives for our college students and school to have interaction in highly effective analysis.”

NH-LIFT is supported by an award from the Nationwide Science Basis EPSCoR Analysis Infrastructure Enchancment E-CORE program. UNH additionally secured and managed NSF EPSCoR’s final main funding in New Hampshire, the $20 million NH BioMade initiative, which helps the state’s quickly rising biomaterials business.

The College of New Hampshire conjures up innovation and transforms lives in our state, nation and world. Greater than 16,000 college students from 49 states and 82 nations interact with an award-winning school in top-ranked packages in enterprise, engineering, legislation, well being and human companies, liberal arts and the sciences throughout greater than 200 packages of research. A Carnegie Classification R1 establishment, UNH companions with NASA, NOAA, NSF, and NIH, and acquired over $210 million in aggressive exterior funding in FY23 to additional discover and outline the frontiers of land, sea and area.

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Caption: Undergraduate scholar researchers take a look at samples within the Additive Biomanufacturing Lab at Keene State Faculty.                                              

Picture credit score: William Wrobel / Keene State Faculty