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Year one of medical school? Been there, done that! Meet two Alaska Native WWAMI students spending their summer with top researchers at UAA before starting year two in Seattle.

Hugh Denny often grapples with the dilemma of deciding when or whether to replace vital equipment at the Alaska Native Medical Center, where he works as chief facilities engineer. The UAA ESPM graduate student recently devised an algorithm to simplify that task and, in the process, won an award.

At 10 p.m. on a Friday, veteran police officers Paul Honeman and Guy Dodge, with nearly 60 years of combined law enforcement experience, are scanning University Police Department (UPD) radios with one ear and with the other, fielding questions about campus safety.

Award-winning nurse Leda Garside brings her mobile medical clinic rolling through the valleys and vineyards of Oregon's wine country, seeking to provide much-needed health care and support to the state's migrant workers.

Erik Sheldon's mother died four years ago, sending his life into chaos. He found help, graduated as his high school's valedictorian and, thanks to UAA's Della Keats Health Sciences Summer Program, is working toward a new goal: becoming a surgeon.

Faculty author Jo-Ann Mapson has just published her 12th novel. Get a sneak peek at the book and learn what inspires her to include exceptional canine companions in her work.

Two artists with UAA ties—one a photography alumna and one a former ceramics professor—traveled back to Anchorage for the first time in 19 years to see their ceramic tile landscape installed in the Natural Sciences Building.

After a low-income childhood where the McDonald’s drive-thru seemed like an out-of-reach luxury, Tim now oversees budgets of up to $80 million as a project engineer.

Two new initiatives reinforce partnerships in the Pacific Northwest and allow Alaskans greater educational opportunities while minimizing their time away from the 49th state.

Amy is no stranger to artistic reinvention. This former custom wedding gown maker is also a writer, a children's book illustrator and a textile artist.