Educational

The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center will host Kid Conservationist for our May 2023 Super Stellar Friday. Jack Dalton is a student dedicated to saving and protecting critically endangered orangutans. Read more →


HISTORY MADE: President Biden Signs Inflation Reduction Act Into Law, Delivering Lower Health Care Costs to the American People

Today, President Biden signed The Inflation Reduction Act into law, which will lower costs and improve health care for millions of Americans. Along with combating inflation and making key investments in climate and energy, this historic legislation will drive down health care premiums for 13 million Americans and lower the cost of prescription drugs. Read more →


The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center will host activities and presentations from the University of New Hampshire at Manchester’s NoMADS project in a monthly series running through June 2022. Team Cooke’s Novel Methods of Antibiotic Discovery in Space (NoMADS) is sending an experiment to the International Space Station through NASA STEM on Station’s Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science (SPOCS). Members of the team will run family activities and formal presentations connected with their research and project development for visitors to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, including a look at bacteria in petri dishes and hands-on engineering challenges. Read more →


Today, State Senator Tom Sherman (D-Rye) and advocates joined Protect Our Care NH for a virtual press event to highlight the health and economic provisions in the Build Back Better reconciliation legislation, currently before Congress, that will benefit and improve the lives of Granite Staters.  The bill will further extend the Child Tax Credit and lower costs and expand access to quality, affordable health care in New Hampshire, among other child care and home care provisions included in President Biden’s Build Back Better proposal.  Read more →


One year into the launch of online classes, the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications announces a spring session of topics requested by students, and each is being offered for the first time. Eight free, online classes are offered in a single session each, running from April 6 to May 4, 2021. Read more →