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Public research universities like Â鶹Éç occupy a special place on the American education landscape. We are beholden to serve our state by educating its citizens and creating knowledge that will ensure a safe, prosperous future for everyone in New Hampshire. 

Here, those fundamental pillars of education, research and engagement with the wider world stand on another powerful triad: Â鶹Éç is one of the nation’s few Land, Sea and Space Grant universities. These federal designations entrust us with extending our significant research and educational assets to solve problems facing our state and region, whether it’s producing food in a changing climate, measuring geomagnetic storms by deploying sensors at high schools or marshalling volunteers to monitor and protect our coastal ecosystems.

This issue of Spark centers research as the nucleus for these intertwined aspects of the Â鶹Éç experience. Land, sea, space. Teaching, research, engagement. It’s this triple threat — times two — that makes Â鶹Éç exceptional.