FEMA AWARDS NEARLY $2.3 MILLION TO UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR
COVID TESTING
[https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20221101/fema-awards-nearly-2-3-million-university-new-hampshire-covid-testing]


Release Date: 
November 1, 2022 

BOSTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending
nearly $2.3 million to the State of New Hampshire to reimburse the
University of New Hampshire for the cost of providing testing for
students, faculty and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The $2,288,046 FEMA Public Assistance grant to the public university
will reimburse it for purchasing supplies and contracting for staff to
administer and process COVID-19 tests at the university’s Manchester
and Durham campuses between November 2020 and January 2021.

UNH hired temporary staff who acted as medical laboratory technicians
and clinical lab assistants to administer COVID-19 tests, process
specimens, and assist with COVID testing logistics. The university
provided COVID-19 testing supplies such as labels for test tubes,
pipettes, solution, calibrators, reagent chemicals, tubing, plastic
combs and plates, deep-well plates, biological safety cabinets,
adhesive film and power supply units.

“FEMA is pleased to be able to assist the University of New
Hampshire with these costs,” said FEMA Region 1 Regional
Administrator Lori Ehrlich. “Providing resources for our
institutions of higher education to combat the COVID-19 pandemic is
critical to their success, and to our success as a nation.”

FEMA’s Public Assistance program is an essential source of funding
for states and communities recovering from a federally declared
disaster or emergency.

So far, FEMA has provided more than $172 million in Public Assistance
grants to New Hampshire to reimburse the state for pandemic-related
expenses.