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The UAA Rocketry team recently pitted their skills and knowledge against approximately 25 university teams in NASA's annual Student Launch event in Huntsville, Ala., and brought home sixth place with a rocket they built in eight months.

If you've ever wanted to have class in a castle, this is your chance. Thanks to a recent exchange program, UAA aviation students travel in pairs each spring to a tiny town on the mighty Rhine River in Germany, while two German students head to Alaska to take their place.

With the legislature adjourned as of April 26, 2015, Mark Simon's internship in Rep. Max Gruenberg's office for the semester has come to an end. He says he learned enough to know he wants to learn a whole lot more.

Once a semester, fire science and EMS students team up to shatter glass, smash windows and completely shred donated junkers in the name of public safety. See the sights of Vehicle Extrication, a one-weekend intensive course where UAA students get their first chance to apply classroom skills in a real-life (simulated) crash environment.

USUAA President Stacey Lucason winds down her undergraduate experience with graduation this May, but she's already focused on next steps, to a master's degree in public health or policy, and potential service as a UA student regent.

The UAA Seawolf Debate Program hosted the most prestigious national debate tournament of its kind April 11–13. After a weekend of 360 debates, judges selected Yale as the best intercollegiate debate team of 2015.

A year after graduating, Mariana Morari still gets emotional thinking back to when she received her M.P.A. Now, she's hoping to recreate that graduation in her rural hometown in Moldova. And with community support, she will. Learn how to donate your graduation gown to her big dream.

The Alaska Native Oratory Society provides a welcoming and safe place every year for young orators to recite poetry, give a speech in a Native language or share stories from their culture and real-life experiences.

As a high school student, Xavier Mason kept to himself. At UAA, however, he has excelled in academics, immersed himself in the tasks involved in becoming a leader and social entrepreneur and will deliver the student speech at the upcoming 2015 Spring Commencement.

The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE), UAA’s faculty development center, recently announced its COW (CAFE Oh Wow!) Faculty Development Awards for 2015.