Blog Posts in: COLSA

Dr. Christopher Hernandez works in the pumpkin field as part of UNH's cucurbit breeding program

UNHInnovation Fund Awards $50,000 Grants for Cucurbit Seeds and Smart Insoles

Thursday, May 11, 2023
Cucurbit seeds and smart insole sensors were selected as the winning proposals for the newly launched UNHInnovation Fund during the final round presentations on April 17, 2023. The fund awarded two $50,000 grants to help UNH faculty researchers move their innovations closer to licensing and commercialization. Congratulations to recipients Dr. Christopher Hernandez, assistant professor in the Department of Agriculture, Nutrition and Food Systems, and Dr. Diliang Chen, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Read More
Two Cows Eating Hay

Calf Growth Assessment Method Developed at UNH

Wednesday, October 11, 2017
In an excellent example of interdisciplinary collaboration, researchers from the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (COLSA) and the University Instrumentation Center (UIC) recently teamed up to develop and evaluate a new, patent-pending method for analyzing calf body composition via Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR). Patricia Wilkinson, Analytical Instrumentation Scientist in the UIC and Pete Erickson, Professor and Extension Dairy Specialist in the UNH Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems and Colleen Chapman, former graduate student spearheaded the... Read More