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For the second year in a row, alumni teams returned to UAA’s campus to putt their way across campus via the Spine on Thursday, Feb. 26. Flip through photos of this year's Alumni ParTee: 9 in the Spine.

The fifth annual UAA Beard and 'Stache Competition featured comedy, drama, upsets, surprises and a whole lot of face hair. See this year's winners and hear all about the trials and tribulations of Moustache Ken.

Congratulations to the spring 2015 Student Diversity Award winners: Maria Crouch, Kyle Demientieff-Worl, Andrew Freed II, "Jenny" Jaeyeon Cho, Ashleigh Gaines, "Jae" Jae Min Cho, Eli Michael-Trumbull, Jordan Norquist, Nayade Perez, Steffanie La Torre, Ana Azpilcueta, Tyler Ching, Edward Washington II and Yasuhito Nakasato.

Early literacy coach Bryan Bearss spends his weekdays coaching ASD teachers and his weekends coaching Iditarod athletes—the furry ones. This winter, when his musher friend suffered a season-ending injury, he stepped back on the runners to prep for the 2015 Iditarod.

Since its debut in 1977, the Spine has grown from an open-air walkway over Chester Creek into a crucial campus artery. Learn how every window, chair and square foot of the Spine has been deliberately designed to make the most of our urban and wild campus.

Professor Daniel Carlgren researched in the U.K. before building this year's immense two-tier historically accurate Shakespeare set. The full façade will host three shows this season as part of an authentic and impressive tribute to theatrical history—a tribute that also involves zombies.

Herminia Din had everything planned for this year's Winter Design Project 2015. Only, Mother Nature had a different idea. Find out what's still happening, and why, snow or no snow, the project teaches us something about winter.

Legislative intern Mark Simon can see his workplace, the Legislative Office Building in Juneau, from his apartment window. Nothing like that to keep your focus on the job.

A 2010 bond package by Alaska voters made the new energy-efficient, state-of-the-art Glenn Massay Theater at Matanuska-Susitna College a reality. Thank you, Alaska!

How solid is that bridge? Will that weld keep the pieces of that machine together? Is that plane's engine safe—or do dangerous cracks exist under its surface? UAA students are taking part in a grant program that offers them the opportunity to learn about nondestructive testing techniques and grow a career.