Outdoor Education
Outdoor Orientation Experience Eases Transition to College for Honors Students
For a group of incoming UNH honors students, their first days of college won’t be remembered for a feeling of homesickness or anxiety around fitting in but rather for dodging poison ivy while playing capture the flag, attempting to decode unknown animal noises in the middle of the night and... Read More
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11/28/23Poteet ’96 Preparing to Pilot Historic Space Mission
Lt. Col. Scott “Kidd” Poteet ’96, retired from the U.S. Air Force, has patrolled the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, flown combat... -
05/11/20Digital Adventures
For five students studying outdoor education and leadership, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic gave them an opportunity to create a resource to help... -
04/01/20Outward Bound Goes Cross-Country
Four years ago, associate professor of kinesiology Jayson Seaman visited the Colorado Outward Bound School in Leadville, CO, where he met with UNH... -
09/26/19For Teens, Outdoors Is Greater
A new study from UNH has found that adventure therapy is less expensive and more effecitve than traditional therapy.
Recent Stories
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01/11/19 - WMUR: UNH Study Looks at Using Outdoor Therapy to Help People Battling AddictionStudy shows that adventure therapy for substance use disorder treatment has better outcomes than traditional therapy Read More -
10/02/18 - Outdoor Ed in NepalFour UNH students traveled to Kathmandu this summer to help refine an experiential education program. Read More -
06/10/16 - Climbing the WallsWhen UNH Today asked Bill Cudmore for a photo and interview for this series, he suggested meeting at UNH’s towering climbing wall inside New Hampshire Hall. Once we met him, it... Read More -
03/24/15 - Risk TakersUNH alumnus Randy Pierce (left) and guidedog Autumn and UNH alumna Alyssa Ballestero ’10 visited professor Brent Bell’s “Risk and the Human Experience” class recently. For Randy... Read More -
11/18/14 - In Memoriam—Karen Colclough '99On a mission to Nicaragua with her church and an organization that provides land for housing and cash-crop gardens to impoverished residents of Central America and Mexico... Read More -
07/11/13 - UNH Wildcats 1, New York Rangers 0Outdoor Education Professor Brent Bell (left) and park ranger in New York City's Central Park New York may be the city of superlatives – the most populous, the most expensive, the... Read More