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Weddings are glamorous. Opening a small business is not. But that didn't stop Tara Gondek from taking the plunge and opening her own bridal boutique in Anchorage last fall.

It's wedding season and Alaskans are cornering the market on flowers as big as your head. How has the Center for Economic Development and the Small Business Development Center assisted with this budding industry?

What does a gram of sugar look like? How do you explain to a patient why uncontrolled diabetes is so devastating? The Summer Seminar in Health Literacy aims to raise awareness of difficulties people have in understanding health issues.

Crane your neck and take in the new two-story stained glass installation in the ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building. Artist Jack Archibald shared some of his secrets.

On the water, she’s a paddleboard entrepreneur. On the rink, she drops derby opponents to their kneepads. And in the classroom, Marvat Obeidi is a role model for her multilingual students—like them, she grew up in Anchorage between two cultures, two languages and the culture shock of being a first-generation Alaskan.

She moved from a bucolic suburb of Nairobi 12 years ago to study nursing at UAA and emerged four years later with a hard-won bachelor's degree. Now she's a registered nurse at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Meet Rahab Kiruku.

Who's lucky enough to make it out of boot camp with a pan of freshly-baked cinnamon rolls? The kids in UAA's Culinary and Bakery Boot Camps. Smell what's cookin' at the Cuddy this summer.

Marva Watson's team is educating the UAA community about Title IX's sensitive issues, to keep campus a safe place to live, work and study.

UAA alumnus Brandon Wood ran his first Crow Pass Crossing last year. He talks here about his three-year path to that torturous race.

Ghulam Bham, a civil engineering professor, is leading a team of mechanical and electrical engineers to develop a driving simulator out of a 1996 Ford sedan.