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UAA professor of entrepreneurship Al Hermann was proud to introduce the brains behind the first Alaska Accelerator Fund start-up investment, Brian McKinnon of Mackinnon Marine, at a press conference with the mayor.

UAA's new bike-share program still needs a part-time volunteer student manager, but 50 taxi-yellow cruisers will be available for check out from the UAA/APU Consortium Library circulation desk once local trails clear up. All you'll need is a Wolfcard and a helmet.

Katie found her passion on campus in an elective American Sign Language class. She fell in love with the university's Deaf community and served as president of ASL Club her senior year. For her achievements, Katie will earn Leadership Honors at UAA's commencement ceremony next week.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the dancers, choreographers and technical gurus who are making the latest UAA Mainstage Theater production, New Dances 2014, a success.

Every year UAA engineering students fly from Anchorage to Cameroon, a tropical West Africa nation, to continue their ongoing projects at Rhema Grace Orphanage. The partnership, organized by Engineers Without Borders, is five years strong and counting.

Architectural Drafting students were tasked this semester with developing building-design concepts for Chignik Lagoon Native Corporation. The corporation sought help from UAA students to design a multi-use facility and airplane hangar, which they eventually plan to build on the Alaska Peninsula.

UAA senior Ellen Dore has a work ethic to be admired. The University Honors College student paid her way through college and decided to become a doctor after working as a medical scribe in a local hospital emergency room. Next up? Medical school. She's certainly one to watch.

In 2012, UAA granted its first doctorates. The Joint UAA-UAF Clinical-Community Psychology Program has paved the way for new doctoral programs at UAA. Next in line is a nursing doctorate. Find out more and meet current psychology Ph.D. student Xio Owens.

UAA alumni hit the links—as in all those sky bridges that "link" our campus buildings. Alumni ParTee: 9 in the Spine had alumni and student leaders joined on mini golf teams. The course was full of windmills, mulligans and steaming indoor volcanoes.

A small side project among freshmen friends at UAA has grown over the past few years into a thriving business. Frontier Tutoring now hires a team of Seawolves as tutoring specialists, providing a boost for Anchorage's college-bound students. Founder Brian Franklin is Harvard-bound for his M.B.A. next year.