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Justice alumnus Alexander Choi graduates from APD 21-1 Police Academy

Portrait of Alexander Choi

When alumnus Alexander Choi graduated from the Justice Center with a BA in Justice in Fall 2020, we asked him what's next. Short and sweet, he said, "Joining the Anchorage Police Department."

Student Primrose Srisakphet featured in Kenai Senior Center newsletter

Photo of Primrose Srisakphet

Kenai Peninsula Campus HUMS student Primrose Srisakphet was featured in the Kenai Senior Center newsletter as a member of the team while she completes her practicum.

Allied Health Program Research Receives National Recognition

 Grace Leu Burke, program director for Medical Laboratory Science

The Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) program was recently recognized for its work during the ASCP 2021 Hybrid Annual Meeting.

CSI: UAA

Criminal Investigation students observe a mock crime scene

To students in UAA Justice Center instructor Glen Klinkhart’s Criminal Investigation course, the end of the semester is, quite literally, murder. For his lab practicum, Klinkhart—a homicide detective, true crime author, and computer forensics expert—stages the scene of his own murder in a UAA lecture hall and challenges the budding investigators in his class to solve the crime.

Dr. Mary Ann Hautman establishes Indigenous Nursing Endowed Scholarship

Beatrice McCarty

“I never thought I would be involved in philanthropy, but after gaining an in-depth understanding of the program and working with Dr. Tina DeLapp, I decided to establish an endowment to the Recruitment and Retention of Alaska Natives into Nursing (RRANN), as a beneficiary of my modest estate.”

House Call: UAA/ISU Pharmacy students deliver vaccines across Anchorage

Pharmacy students preparing for vaccine drive

As another flu season begins and the coronavirus pandemic continues, UAA/ISU Doctor of Pharmacy students took to the streets as part of the Alaska Assisted Living Home Immunization Program (AK ALH) to protect some of Anchorage’s most vulnerable people.

Project BLENDS graduate collaboration to promote early childhood mental health

Hattie Harvey, Cary Moore, Mary Dallas Allen

Project BLENDS will develop a training model at UAA for four overlapping service disciplines in order to serve young children with high-intensity social-emotional needs and their families.

UAA dental students serve up smiles for Children’s Day

dental students providing a dental exam to a young child

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - It was a packed house inside the University of Alaska Anchorage’s dental clinic. Friday was all about serving up smiles for the first ever Children’s Day.

Community Partner Profile Series: Introducing Travis Hedwig

Portrait of Travis Hedwig

Dr. Travis Hedwig collaborates with At Home in the North, an effort focused on advancing a contextually and culturally relevant understanding of the northern housing continuum. Travis is a cultural and medical anthropologist and is a faculty member in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is interested in applied health research, particularly issues of mental and behavioral health, housing and homelessness, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and other disabilities, and community health.

Pharmacy students fan out across Anchorage to bring flu shots, COVID-19 boosters to assisted living facilities

Pharmacy student delivering vaccine to client in an assisted living home

Pharmacy students fan out across Anchorage to bring flu shots, COVID-19 boosters to assisted living facilities

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