Andrew ’12 and Jim ’15G Scott suffered life-altering injuries just 15 months apart. To find its way forward, the Scott family, makers of the well-known Wellness pet food brand, turned to UNH’s Northeast Passage (NEP). Today, the Scotts donate 100% of the profits from their newest endeavor, RAWZ, to organizations including NEP that support traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury recovery.

A full year into the global COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have discovered that doing our part means disengaging from “normal” life: working from home, ordering our groceries on the internet, visiting our families and friends on Zoom. But there are those who have remained on the frontlines — doctors and nurses, health care experts and policymakers, microbiologists and virologists and drug developers — including no small number of UNH alumni, eight of whom share their stories here.

UNH art professor Benjamin Cariens was adopted from a Korean orphanage and spent his childhood in Europe with American parents who worked for the CIA. Today, his approach to making art encourages students to pay attention to what’s in front of them, to embrace downtime as much as productivity — and to celebrate their own scars and imperfections.