National Distance Learning Week

Our graduates tell us that an education with UNH Online fuels their passion and provides a strong impetus to their career growth. We support that growth with a standard of excellence that is the cornerstone of our university.

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Alumni Stories

Mercy Bashir (PMHNP 2021)

Mercy Bashir is grateful for many precious “gifts” in her life. Apart from numerous academic degrees and a thriving career, she has also enjoyed being a teacher, listening to the heartbeat of music, honoring her faith, and exploring the joys of motherhood. Currently an Adult-Gero Nurse Practitioner...

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Mercy Bashir (PMHNP 2021)

Mercy Bashir is grateful for many precious “gifts” in her life. Apart from numerous academic degrees and a thriving career, she has also enjoyed being a teacher, listening to the heartbeat of music, honoring her faith, and exploring the joys of motherhood. Currently an Adult-Gero Nurse Practitioner...

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Laurel Christensen (MSW 2021)

The Collective Experience

Raised in New Mexico, Laurel Christensen knows how to handle the heat but the COVID pandemic brought with it unexpected personal and academic challenges. On a broader level, however, it deepened her understanding of the resulting, universal stress and grief that has affected the entire global...

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Laurel Christensen (MSW 2021)

The Collective Experience

Raised in New Mexico, Laurel Christensen knows how to handle the heat but the COVID pandemic brought with it unexpected personal and academic challenges. On a broader level, however, it deepened her understanding of the resulting, universal stress and grief that has affected the entire global...

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Tasha Humphreys (PMHNP 2021)

The Education Cycle

"As the first person in my immediate family to earn a college degree, I broke a long-standing generational cycle since none of us had an education beyond high school. I always say, if you want to hear the universe laugh, tell everyone about your plans." Tasha Humphreys grew up in the southern...

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Tasha Humphreys (PMHNP 2021)

The Education Cycle

"As the first person in my immediate family to earn a college degree, I broke a long-standing generational cycle since none of us had an education beyond high school. I always say, if you want to hear the universe laugh, tell everyone about your plans." Tasha Humphreys grew up in the southern...

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Benjamin Peck (MEd 2021)

Collaboration

"I enjoy the process of discovery. Nothing makes me happier than conversing with others in an exchange that inspires me to explore what’s on the next hilltop. Each day I ask, 'What can I learn next?' Collaboration makes me happy because it challenges my brain." Benjamin Peck’s career as an...

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Benjamin Peck (MEd 2021)

Collaboration

"I enjoy the process of discovery. Nothing makes me happier than conversing with others in an exchange that inspires me to explore what’s on the next hilltop. Each day I ask, 'What can I learn next?' Collaboration makes me happy because it challenges my brain." Benjamin Peck’s career as an...

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Marie O'Neil (MEd 2021)

Picture a moth winging its nightly flight to find the moon and you have captured the soul of Marie O’Neil. Drawing upon this poetic symbol, Marie weaves an image of a night moth to describe life’s trajectory as each of us stops to explore many small points of light on our personal journey. Musings...

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Marie O'Neil (MEd 2021)

Picture a moth winging its nightly flight to find the moon and you have captured the soul of Marie O’Neil. Drawing upon this poetic symbol, Marie weaves an image of a night moth to describe life’s trajectory as each of us stops to explore many small points of light on our personal journey. Musings...

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Faculty Spotlights

Tai Slyne (PMNHP 2019)

From the Heart

"If you are full within, you have plenty to give others by helping, listening, guiding. I live my calling and it is my joy to serve." Born to Nigerian parents living in England, most of Tai Slyne’s immediate family work in the medical field. Although her original goal was to become a physician,...

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Tai Slyne (PMNHP 2019)

From the Heart

"If you are full within, you have plenty to give others by helping, listening, guiding. I live my calling and it is my joy to serve." Born to Nigerian parents living in England, most of Tai Slyne’s immediate family work in the medical field. Although her original goal was to become a physician,...

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Kathryn McCurdy

Learning is Play

Learning is all about play. With so much importance placed on testing and structured education methodology, we sometimes lose our sense of play but students learn best when the objective requirements of teaching are balanced with their individual learning paths. Coming from a long lineage of...

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Kathryn McCurdy

Learning is Play

Learning is all about play. With so much importance placed on testing and structured education methodology, we sometimes lose our sense of play but students learn best when the objective requirements of teaching are balanced with their individual learning paths. Coming from a long lineage of...

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Cathleen Colleran

The Tap on the Shoulder

Completing a BSN in Nursing from Husson College through Eastern Maine Medical Center, Cathleen Colleran also earned a master’s degree in Community Health Nursing from the University of Mass-Dartmouth in 2000, and a DNP from Regis College in 2010. She remembers with great affection her undergraduate...

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Cathleen Colleran

The Tap on the Shoulder

Completing a BSN in Nursing from Husson College through Eastern Maine Medical Center, Cathleen Colleran also earned a master’s degree in Community Health Nursing from the University of Mass-Dartmouth in 2000, and a DNP from Regis College in 2010. She remembers with great affection her undergraduate...

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Clarissa Michalak

A Love of Learning

“I could go to school forever, there are so many things I want to know,” declares Clarissa Michalak, Clinical Assistant Professor with the Nursing Department at UNH. Clarissa’s lifelong passion for learning is evidenced by an impressive list of academic accomplishments. In 2007, she earned a...

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Clarissa Michalak

A Love of Learning

“I could go to school forever, there are so many things I want to know,” declares Clarissa Michalak, Clinical Assistant Professor with the Nursing Department at UNH. Clarissa’s lifelong passion for learning is evidenced by an impressive list of academic accomplishments. In 2007, she earned a...

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Andrew Macpherson

Tackling security

A conversation with Andrew Macpherson, Assistant Professor at UNH, reveals both a razor-sharp focus and an enormous wealth of knowledge in the field of security intelligence. Macpherson attended Mercyhurst College, where he studied intelligence analysis as an undergraduate, and then interned as an...

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Andrew Macpherson

Tackling security

A conversation with Andrew Macpherson, Assistant Professor at UNH, reveals both a razor-sharp focus and an enormous wealth of knowledge in the field of security intelligence. Macpherson attended Mercyhurst College, where he studied intelligence analysis as an undergraduate, and then interned as an...

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National Distance Learning Week (NDLW)

Questions about Online Learning?

Alumni Stories

Faculty Spotlights