Velcro Companies plans to consolidate textiles manufacturing from its Queen City site to its production facility in Somersworth but is committed to remaining in New Hampshire, the company told NH Business Review on Monday.
Merrimack High School FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team, Chop Shop 166 hosted the “Week Zero” competition, the first in 2025. Thirty-two teams of high-school students from across New England brought their industrial-sized robots to the school to compete on the REEFSCAPE field specifically designed challenges for the 2025 season.
Sixteen teams from New Hampshire were among the over 600 teams from around the US and the World competing at Destination Imagination Global Finals this week in Kansas City, MO. Global Finals culminates a year in which teams must solve one of six complex STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) or Service Learning Challenges. Following Saturday night’s award ceremony, two New Hampshire teams are now among the best in the World.
You don’t need to be a scientist, or even have a college degree, to be part of the emerging biofabrication regional effort that aims to make southern New Hampshire a global leader in the industry.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Society for Science (the Society) announced that Achyuta Rajaram, 17, of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, won the top award in the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) 2024, America’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors.
A case of misidentification and rush to judgment on social media has led to false accusations of racism and threats of violence against an innocent New Hampshire doctor and his family. Andrew R. Spector, MD, a highly respected Dartmouth Health clinician, was falsely accused of being a man who used a racial slur against a woman of color in a video clip that has gone viral on TikTok.
The single biggest threat in New Hampshire will remain a ransomware attack directed at theft or compromise of sensitive data in state government agencies, municipalities, school districts, and the healthcare and emergency services sectors.
United Way of Greater Nashua has begun a laptop-donation program, called Tech Connect United, in an attempt to provide access to technology for those in need.
As mythological metaphors go, the one that SNHU Professor David Humphreys gave during a recent talk about the eruption of technologies known as artificial intelligence wasn’t terribly reassuring.
On this episode of Get Tech Smart, Flo Nicolas talks about biotechnology and recruiting with Carina Clingman, CEO, and Alison Hall, chief operating officer, of Recruitomics, a New Hampshire-based consulting company that helps biotechnology businesses develop strategic plans to attract and retain talent.
Gradually, over the past decade, New Hampshire has been building the premier global hub for the emerging biofabrication and regenerative medicine industry. In other words: a new industry devoted to manufacturing cells, tissue, and organs that can revolutionize healthcare outcomes and quality of life for the better. And it’s happening right here.
28 teams from across NH competed at Plymouth State University; high school seniors awarded scholarships to attend University System of NH and Community College System of NH institutions.
Deab Kamen said the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Economic Development Administration have risen to the challenge, going beyond the grant award. “I’m worried the local community won’t rally as fast,” Kamen said. He said if the community doesn’t realize the scope of the opportunity and help move it forward, “it will be a massive opportunity lost.”
For this episode of Get Tech Smart, we’ll meet Laurel Skiff of BAE Systems, a defense contractor that is one of the top 10 largest companies and employers in New Hampshire. Laurel Skiff, the company’s community, pre- and early-career outreach program lead, will walk us through the four STEM programs BAE offers to high school students. These programs provide incredible and valuable hands-on opportunities in STEM through BAE’s intensive programs and internships, including:
Q&A with Neal Laurenza CEO of Manchester-based Skymap Games
“We’ve been given a great opportunity, but we don’t want to blow it,” Dean Kamen said. The award was not given to one company or particular entity, he said, but rather it was awarded to Manchester based on the promise of an inclusive coalition of government, education, business and technology working together.
United Therapeutics is in the amazement business. Its 950 employees are spread between corporate offices in Silver Spring, Maryland, and North Carolina’s Research Triangle, with additional research labs in Quebec, Florida and California. In Manchester, 3D lungs and kidneys are being printed and their website lists 13 current job openings for various scientists and research assistants.
A Keene State professor has been awarded a U.S. patent for an app created to enhance communication for those on the autism spectrum.
New Hampshire residents reported more than $15 million in losses from internet-based crimes in 2021, a record year in the U.S. for internet crime as reported to the FBI.
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the 20th century’s most prolific and consequential inventors. It was on this day that Ralph Henry Baer was born in Pirmasens, Germany. Baer would go on to create a host of electronic devices, toys, and gadgets. None, however, would be bigger than his seminal conceptualization and work around what was to become the modern video game industry.