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Tracey Burke, a professor in UAA’s School of Social Work, has dedicated her career to closing the gap between UAA, the community and raising awareness of food insecurity. Her latest collaboration with Catholic Social Services’ St. Francis House Food Pantry is contributing to a wider community discussion on creating a more just society.

Learn more about the Alaska Highway from a few folks who built it. As the incredible construction project turns 75, we look back on a few of the photos, speeches, memories and letters stored inside Archives and Special Collections at the UAA/APU Consortium Library.

Why is the Dall sheep population dwindling in the Chugach Mountains? Biology student Luke Metherell spent his summer in the mountains to find out.

UAA natural sciences alumna Jasmine Gil's climate research examines the drying and greening up of ponds and lakes on the tundra near her former home of Bethel. This summer, she spent two weeks camping at Kuka Creek to gather data before processing her findings at Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts.

Shark expert Dr. Cheryl Wilga, a UAA professor, researcher and director of the Department of Biological Sciences, is working among an extensive scientific collaboration of scientists from many institutions to evaluate how sharks "shrug their shoulders" to swallow.

Before she moved from her native China to the U.S., Dr. Qiujie "Angie" Zheng was "OK with salmon." Then she tried wild Alaska salmon, loved it, and launched research focused on helping companies effectively market wild Alaska salmon to the Chinese.

What do you get when you combine caribou teeth, Plexiglas hockey pucks and nitrogen isotopes? A truly unique interdisciplinary project that merges chemistry, dentistry, anthropology, archaeology and engineering to impact conservation biology in Alaska.

For one UAA biology student, summer means tents on the tundra under the midnight sun. Graduate student Hannah Uher-Koch monitors loon behavior on the North Slope for both the Bureau of Land Management and for her graduate research.

A high school anatomy class sparked Sofia Infante's interest in health, leading to UAA's Della Keats program and college Outside. Now she's studying medicine at Alaska WWAMI, with plans to help underserved populations as a doctor.

After nearly a year of design and testing, mechanical engineering students Steven Ahern and Udayan Dutta handed their self-designed asteroid anchor to a team of divers at NASA's Johnson Space Center for an underwater test.