Long before the medical community caught on, Frederick Law Olmsted understood that human contact with nature could advance mental and physical well-being. Today, medical science and academic research are catching up—as made clear in a series of YouTube seminars produced and hosted by Trinity College professor Susan Masino.
Masino, the Vernon D. Roosa Professor of Applied Science with joint appointments in neuroscience and psychology, explores Olmsted’s health-centered philosophy in the series called “Olmsted’s Brain: Discovering Health in Urban Places and Wild Spaces.” All 6 installments were offered via Zoom.
The full lecture series is available on YouTube, with links to the individual installments here:
- Histories of the Nature Cure: The Therapeutic Power of Gardens, Camping and Parks | Mary Mahoney and Susan Masino
- Shintin-yoku: From Science to Literature to Culture | Dr. Joan Maloof
- Leave No Species Behind: Saving Nature and Ourselves | Dennis Liu
- It’s All Interconnected: Nature Contact Today, Planetary Health Tomorrow | Linda Powers Tomasso
- Why We Need More National Parks | Michael Kellett
- Nature & Neuroscience | Dr. Susan Masino
