Get Outside! Using Natural Environments to Support College Student Wellbeing: From Research to Practice Featuring Laura Allen, Ph.D. and Courtney Crim, Ed.D.

Laura Allen, PhD is a Professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she has taught since 1994. Her expertise includes child and adolescent development, emerging adulthood, and curriculum development. 

Can Hiking Help Heal Veterans with PTSD? Researchers Seek to Find Out

Suzanne O’Brien · REI · October 25, 2022
Featuring Gregory Bratman, member of the Center’s Research Collaborative and Steering Committee

 
One fall day on Washington’s Mount Rainier, Josh Brandon and a group of fellow active duty platoon leaders discovered something about the outdoors that could improve the lives of veterans. 

NIH funds Wakaya: Grounded in Choctaw Indigenous Land-based Healing

The National Institute of Health/NIH R01, Wakaya, is led by Choctaw Nation enrolled members, Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings (UW Full Professor, Public Health and Social Work, and Director of Environmental Health and Land-based Healing Division, IWRI) and Dr. 

2022 Nature and Health Symposium: Body, Mind, and Soul: A Return to Nature’s Gifts

Nature and Health hosted our annual symposium on October 11-13, 2022 at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center. This symposia, titled Body, Mind, and Soul: A Return to Nature’s Gifts, highlighted transdisciplinary research at the intersection of equity, health, nature, and well-being. 

Nature-Based Well-Being Interventions: Grounded in Evidence Featuring Dr. Holli-Anne Passmore

Dr. Holli-Anne Passmore is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Concordia University of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. Additionally, Holli-Anne is the Director of the Nature—Meaning in Life (NMIL) Research Lab, an Editor of the International Journal of Wellbeing, Science Chair of the Spirituality and Meaning Division of the International Positive Psychology Association, and an invited academic with the Global Wellbeing Initiative (a partnership between the Gallup World Poll and the Wellbeing for Planet Earth Foundation). 

Ecopsychology Special Issue on Nature and Health—Part 1

Almost two years ago the Ecopsychology journal partnered with the 2021 Nature and Health conference to solicit original manuscripts for a special issue of the journal, edited by Dr. Gregory N. 

UW Magazine: Why we walk

We were bipedal before we were human. But science still has much to explore about how we evolved—body and brain—to be walkers.
 
The benefits of walking include healthy aging and extend beyond the body to the brain—playing a role in staving off cognitive decline. 

Nature and Health Works Hosts Work Party UW Farm

UW Farm, Nature and Health, UW Botanic Gardens, and UW Sustainability formed  a campus collaboration called Campus Rx. We host volunteer work parties and lunches that builds community around spending time outdoors. 

Nature and Health Hosts Two UW Tacoma Summer Interns

Nature and Health, an EarthLab member organization, is hosting two interns for the 2022 summer through the EarthLab Summer Internships program. Housed within EarthLab, the internship program is a robust, cohort-based experience for University of Washington undergraduate students to develop interdisciplinary and community-engagement skills. 

Connecting UW Campus to Health and Wellbeing with a ‘Nature and Health Walk’

By Allie Long
Have you ever felt anxious, tired, or overwhelmed, and then noticed a release in tension once you’ve taken a break to spend some time outside? Research shows you’re not alone.