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Elizabeth Ann Virgil: Trailblazer as the First African American Woman to Graduate from UNH

Elizabeth Ann Virgil: Trailblazer as the First African American Woman to Graduate from UNH

On May 26, 1926, Portsmouth’s Elizabeth Ann Virgil became the first African American to graduate from the University of New Hampshire, where she majored in home economics and was active in several music clubs including the Treble Clefs, a group she helped to found.

How and why UNH scientists spent four days underwater in EDALHAB 50 years ago

How and why UNH scientists spent four days underwater in EDALHAB 50 years ago

It was 1971 when Larry Harris, a professor of zoology at the University of New Hampshire, was approached by Jeff Savage, a professor of mechanical and ocean engineering, to collaborate on a research project. His proposal was to introduce the Dungeness crab, a West Coast species, to the Gulf of Maine off the coast of the Isles of Shoals, to see how it would interact with native species like lobsters and wolffish.