Carsey international student Julia Vieira receives graduate research award.

"My father immigrated from Sicily when he was 11. He ended up dropping out of high school when he was 17 to join the Navy and was sent to Vietnam."

On this week’s edition of Beat The Press, Emily Rooney is joined by Mike Nikitas of the University of New Hampshire, Adam Reilly of WGBH News, Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University and Callie Crossley of WGBH News.

A landmark study by UNH researchers Michael Gass, professor of outdoor education, and Anita Tucker, associate professor of social work, found that for adolescents with mental health and substance use issues, taking therapy into challenging wilderness environments is up to three times more effective than keeping it on the couch. The researchers, who published the study in the journal Children and Youth Services Review, say the powerful findings could expand access to outdoor behavioral healthcare.

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For adolescents navigating the rocky road of physical and emotional changes, a disorganized and unstable home life can lead to greater depression, poorer physical health and increased likelihood of engaging in substance abuse.

A Fulbright Scholar studies the impact of politics and cooperation on the value of wine.

President Dean's latest letter to the UNH community focuses on strategic priorities, racial equity challenge and campus climate.

The winter tick — a tiny parasite thriving as winters warm and shorten — is decimating northern New England’s moose population, a three-year UNH study found. Published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology, the research, led by professor of wildlife ecology Pete Pekins, found that increasing infestations of this blood-sucking parasite are the primary cause of an unprecedented 70 percent death rate of calves over a three-year period.

When NASA launches its Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission in 2024, it will carry an instrument designed and built by a team of UNH engineers and scientists.