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Community physicians are a critical part of the University of Washington School of Medicine's WWAMI program. Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska recently donated $100,000 to help attract doctors to give vital clinical experience for Alaska WWAMI medical students.

Seawolf Anna Berecz is headed to the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, to represent her native Hungary. A psychology major, Anna is in her third season with the UAA alpine team. Congratulations, Anna!

UAA's young gymnastics team and their veteran coaching staff (50 years of combined UAA experience) are kicking off their competitive season this month and are full of excitement for their new space at the Alaska Airlines Center. Get an inside look at one of the team's recent practices.

Signs are going up around campus bearing words of welcome for Alaska Native students and faculty, in their own languages. It's part of an effort to provide a sense of community and belonging here at UAA, for indigenous Alaskans seeking an education in Anchorage.

Her hometown is a coastal area of Western Alaska near Nome, where she returns from school to hunt, fish and enjoy friends and family. Her home away from home, however, is the stage of an opera. Meet UAA music performance student Kira Eckenweiler.

Thought the planetarium was just for stargazers? Nope. On Jan. 17, the UAA Planetarium and Visualization Theater will premiere its first full-dome feature film about the brown bears at McNeil River State Game Sanctuary. Read more about River of Bears.

This year, the Student Phonathon Program marked two important milestones: They celebrated their 10th anniversary and reached the $1 million fundraising milestone. Meet team member Alix Oyler.

Meet Libby Roderick, associate director of CAFE. Find out how this lifelong Alaskan and activist is sowing the seeds for a better tomorrow.

Alaska Airlines honors UAA and UAF by painting two of its Bombardier Q400s for the Seawolves and Nanooks. The colorful planes will arrive in Alaska's skies in March 2014 and will fly between Anchorage and Fairbanks and Anchorage and Kodiak.

Jim Murphy, a UAA economics professor and Rasmuson Chair, and Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, also a UAA Rasmuson Chair, recently used a game to bring economics to life for Steller Secondary students.