UNH Today

Access to an Active Life

When Debra Boucher retired in 2017, she faced some lifestyle adjustments beyond those of the average retiree. A once-avid hiker and biker, on and off the trail, the Manchester, New Hampshire, resident had given up the sports she loved after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

But then a friend told her about Northeast Passage. The UNH-based adaptive sports and therapeutic recreation program has been serving individuals with disabilities since 1990.

Insight and Inspiration

Neuroscience major Kiley Kennedy ’19 didn’t expect to be so moved by reading the charts of pediatric epilepsy patients, a responsibility of her internship in the pediatric Status Epilepticus Research Group (pSERG) at Boston Children’s Hospital. “It’s a story that you can see unfolding in front of you as the facts of the chart reveal the journey that patient took,” she says. “I feel I learn more about them than I would if I met them.”

Seeding An Industry’s Future

After more than four decades operating family farm businesses in Connecticut and New Hampshire, it was with an eager eye toward the future of the agricultural industry that the Huntington family launched lēf Farms in Loudon, a large-scale indoor robotic farming facility fueled by state-of-the-art technology, about five years ago.