UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE in undergraduate and graduate programs. At the heart of the University’s undergraduate studies is the General Education Program, a core program with a breadth of academic subjects. The GEP aims to acquaint the student with some of the major modes of thought necessary to understand oneself, others, society and the world. Campus In recent years, several athletic facilities have received major upgrades and overhauls, including the Lundholm Gymnasium basketball and volleyball court. The University also completed a new $2.15 million track and field facility on September 1, 2001. Other additions have been two brand new $1.5 million outdoor artficial fields, Memorial Field and Bremner Field. One of the most recent additions was the Jerry Azumah Performance Center located in the UNH Field House. The brand new strength and conditioning facilty was dedicated on July 8, 2003. In recent years, the University completed a $15 million science and engineering building (Morse Hall) and a $4.5 million renovation of Hewitt Hall to expand the School of Health and Human Services. The University has also has completed construction on four capital construction building projects recently. A renovation of Dimond Library was completed. At a cost of $31.1 million, the new 120,000 square foot Biological Sciences Building (Rudman Hall) and the Spaulding Life Sciences Renovation project provide state-of-the-art teaching and research laboratories. The $8.2 million renovation project for the Memorial Union Building modernized the existing student union building to include kitchen and dining facilities, two theaters, student mailboxes, lounges and meeting rooms and the Bookstore. Most recently Holloway Commons Dining Hall was completed and provides students with one of the finest on-campus dining facilities in the nation. In November of 1995, construction reached completion on the Whittemore Center, a $27 million Recreation and Sports Complex. This project included a state-of-the-art 6,000 to 7,500 seat arena used for hockey, basketball, gymnastics,concerts and convocations, as well as a new three-level recreational sports facility within the structure which had housed Snively Arena. UNH is home to the NASA-recognized Space Science Center; the Institute for Study for Earth, Oceans and Space; and the Institute of Marine Science and Engineering. The English program is staffed by winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, the Edgar Allen Poe Award and the Young Poets Award. The Whittemore School of Business and Economics, established in 1962, is consistently ranked near the top among all business schools in a nationwide poll of business school deans.
Distinguished Alumni Jerry Azumah ‘99 Former NFL Pro Bowler, Chicago Bears
Ty Conklin ’01 NHL Player, Detroit Red Wings
Jason Krog, ‘99 AHL Player, Manitoba Moose
Mike O’Malley ’92 Actor, “Yes, Dear”
David Ball ’07 CFL Player, Montreal Alouettes
Gary DeStefano ’78 President, Nike Team Sports
Kathryn Kross ’82 Producer, “ABC Nightline”
Peter Paul ’67 Owner, Paul Financial & Peter Paul Wines
Susan Blanchard Ryan ’89 Star of movie “Open Water”
Jack Edwards ’79 Announcer, Boston Bruins (NESN)
Richard Linnehan ’80 NASA Astronaut
Andy Brickley ’82 Former NHL Player & Current Analyst, Boston Bruins (NESN)
Carlton Fisk ’69 Hall of Fame Baseball Player
Jackie MacMullan ’82 Journalist, ESPN & ESPN.com
Corey Graham ’07 NFL Player, Chicago Bears
Mike Minnigan ’78 Vice President, AOL
John Irving ’65 Author, “Cider House Rules”
Mark Mowers, ‘98 Former NHL Player, Boston Bruins
Natalie Jacobson ’65 Former News Anchor, Boston TV
Ron Noble ’79 Secretary General, Interpol
Karyn Bye ’94 1998 Olympic Gold, Ice Hockey Marcy Carsey ’66 Producer, Cosby Show & That 70’s Show
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Ricky Santos ’07 CFL Player, Montreal Alouettes Robert Towse ’63 Senior Partner, Morgan Stanley Barbara Walsh ’81 Pulitzer-prize winner, Portland Press Herald