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On Friday, Sept. 13, UAA School of Engineering staff, faculty and students, as well as university and state leaders, gathered for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the SOE's new Engineering & Industry Building scheduled to open fall 2015.

Stephen Trimble has been named the UAA Alumni Association 2013 Alumni Emerging Leader. He is a project manager and Alaska mining sector lead for URS Corporation, as well as advisory board member for geology and the College of Arts and Sciences at UAA.

Sophie Minich is president and CEO of one of Alaska’s biggest native corporations, Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI). She took the helm in January of this year, after Margaret Brown, CIRI’s president and CEO for eight years, retired. “I love my job,” Sophie says smiling. Read more of Sophie’s story.

The passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971 created 13 regional and more than 200 village corporations. UAA faculty have long advocated for an Alaska Native business management curriculum. It's now a blossoming reality.

Susan LaBelle has been named the UAA Alumni Association 2013 Alumni Humanitarian. She's spent the last 35 years working to improve social and behavioral health service delivery in the state. “My compassion for people makes me strive for change,” she says.

UAA’s Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center (AJSAC) received a $79,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, to support a new AJSAC research initiative called the Alaska Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Case Processing Project.

Tess Forstner, a junior at UAA, spent her Alaska summer dressed in Xtratufs, wading through wetlands on a quest for chicks. Boreal birds, actually. She also wrangled a couple dozen volunteers to tromp through their backyard wetlands to monitor key species. Ever felt a wild bird heartbeat? It's pretty amazing, Tess reports.

Annette Rearden and Mary Weiss, two nursing professors, had a dream: Hold a nursing camp in Bethel, Alaska, to interest young people there in becoming nurses, right where they live. This summer was their second year and it was another success. Get the full story here.

Miss Alaska Michelle Taylor is heading to Atlantic City this month as a Miss America contestant. It will be the third pageant for this talented UA scholar who is passionate about encouraging young people to get involved in the political process. Learn more about her.

What if your job was to entertain roughly 20,000 students with divergent tastes? Luckily, UAA alum Zac Clark has been on the job for the last eight years, as Concert Board coordinator. Read more about Zac.