College of Health News

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Alaska WWAMI community celebrates 50th anniversary

 |  Vicki Nechodomu  | 

On Saturday, March 5, Alaska WWAMI medical students connected with faculty and alumni over cocoa, great conversation and winter festivities in celebration of 50 years of partnership between the University of Alaska Anchorage and the University of Washington School of Medicine. Alaska WWAMI grows the next generation of physicians and expands Alaskans’ access to a high-quality medical education.

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Legal Studies students learn about Willamette Law partnership program

 |  Ahliil Saitanan  | 

UAA Legal Studies met with Willamette Law Dean Brian Gallini to learn more about the law school application process and the direct admission program.

A Project PAK team arrives in a rural Alaska community to administer free health screenings to Head Start students. Read More

Pharmacy and nursing students to administer health screenings in rural Alaska

 |  Green & Gold News  |  ,

This March, students from UAA’s pharmacy and nurse practitioner programs will travel to Pilot Station and Akiak to administer free health screenings to Head Start students and the wider community. This trip is the first of two planned to rural Alaska communities each year, one in spring and another in fall, referred to as Project Partnership for Alaska’s Kids (PAK).

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Dr. Jessica Ullrich to present at Brazelton Touchpoints Center's virtual National Forum

 |  Ahliil Saitanan  | 

UAA School of Social Work's Dr. Jessica Ullrich will be a presenter on March 29 for Brazelton Touchpoints Center's virtual National Forum, which will take place March 29-31.

Criminal Investigation students observe a mock crime scene Read More

CSI: UAA

 |  University of Alaska Anchorage  | 

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.