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Fisheries in Alaska can and do crash, so how do families in subsistence areas help each other through times of scarcity? UAA scientists are exploring indigenous cultures to find out.

She went from an undergraduate student veteran to a staff advocate, shaping UAA's true home for veterans on campus. She has many fresh ideas for making UAA veteran friendly.

UAA's Bree Kessler couldn't find a map that conveyed the myriad meanings Anchorage has for its residents. So she and faculty and student colleagues are creating a community atlas to do just that.

Cody Gibson has a big job ahead of him—mapping the ocean floor. It'll take boats, airplanes, helicopters, lasers, a lot more hands on deck and probably decades. That's some job security for a geomatics scholar.

Since the first install six months ago, new water fountains and bottle-filling stations across campus have saved more than 57,000 plastic bottles from landfills. Read more about the new fountains and the amazing plumber working to install them.

Sometimes you meet two people who just seem to belong together. That would be true for Shawn and Heather Heusser, members of the UAA community who came together over a mutual love of cars, some of which actually run.

Professor Diane Hirshberg has spent her academic career trying to understand what works in schools, what doesn't, and why. "We know something very different has to be done." Read more about proposed reforms.

Medical students traditionally spent countless hours listening to lectures about biochemistry, anatomy and other subjects before becoming doctors. An Alaska WWAMI committee crafted a curriculum that will move students out of lectures and into team situations to hone critical-thinking skills.

A lemonade stand named for a pet lizard, a flock of charitable "Lemonade Chickens" and yellow tutu-wearing dancers with a shelter dog. Saturday was a day for creative entrepreneurs: Lemonade Day Alaska.

With experience comes wisdom and UAA senior Theresa Cho has some to share. Lesson 1: "Allow yourself to be pushed. It's how you grow confidence." A first-generation college student, Theresa has just a few remaining classes and medical school is on the horizon.