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Simona Gerdts and Kristen Speyerer—two UAA spring graduates with degrees in justice—recently launched a rebuttal to domestic violence and sexual assault called "UAA Says No More," uniting UAA with the national "No More" campaign.

Erick wasn't a great student in high school. So how is it that he found himself sifting through acceptances and fellowship offers from prestigious Ph.D. programs after he graduated from UAA? Some important connections and the chance to study abroad helped propel him into the life of an academic.

UAA and Willamette University College of Law, located in Salem, Ore., have partnered to offer a new "3+3" program that will allow Alaska students to complete a bachelor's degree and a law degree in six years, rather than the usual seven.

As the world's population blows past seven billion, UAA molecular biologist Eric Bortz says we can expect more infectious outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. Bortz and a group of undergraduates are working to better understand how some viruses manage to evade our immune system.

Shannon L. Brown has been writing since her student days, when she helped launch the campus newspaper. After a long career writing for various magazines, she recently published her first book, a children's mystery novel called 'The Feather Chase.'

Professor Steve Langdon was named professor emeritus at this year's commencement ceremony. There are many more projects in the hopper before this anthropologist truly retires, though.

The ConocoPhillips Arctic Science and Engineering Endowment will fund arctic engineering and science programs at UAA in perpetuity. Thanks to a one-year-early payoff, faculty and students will have early access to the funds—$138,000 this fiscal year end.

These two collaborators met at UAA, and together worked to launch a fisherman-to-consumer connection for Kodiak Pacific cod and rockfish in April. Bear Tooth Grill, Alyeska Resort, Holland America/Princess lodges and The Natural Pantry participate.

The allure of a high-speed, high-altitude career lured him from Spokane, Wash., to UAA's Aviation Technology program a decade ago. Meet UAA alumnus Tony Barton, who once flew all over Alaska as a pilot for Era Aviation and now pilots planes for Horizon Air.

The artists of Clay Body, a UAA student club, have decided to pay it forward and established an endowment this month through the University of Alaska Foundation. Proceeds from their popular pottery sales will directly benefit future students with annual awards.