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UAA student Yvette Pype, with guidance from her professor, Dr. Clare Dannenberg, is using interviews about the Great Earthquake of 1964 and 9-11 to learn how language shapes the way people in Anchorage see themselves. Pype will present her findings at the UAA Undergraduate Research and Discovery Symposium, in mid April.

A course project in experimental economics by two UAA students showed that small-scale corporate social responsibility can be sustainable, even for a small local business.

Americans seem addicted to smartphones, but—unlike the Japanese— turn a cold shoulder to robots. UAA's recent Cyber-Ethics Conference explored why.

Let a UAA physicist walk you through how science detected a miniscule wave of energy set off when two black holes collided more than a billion years ago.

Philippe Amstislavski and his team spent a year experimenting with how to grow insulation from fungus. They found a recipe that worked, and have a patent pending. It could be a home-grown industry in Alaska, he thinks.

Isotopes are like tiny fingerprints that reveal the source of chemicals in the environment. Did this water originate from evaporating sea ice? Does this lingering carbon point to a fuel leak?

Like Anchorage's trails and greenbelts? If so, you have Jack Roderick to thank. Learn more about Jack and the birth of the state's oil economy in his archived papers and photos at the UAA/APU Archives and Special Collections.

"English has good and bad histories in Alaska," says Jennifer Stone, professor of English. Research by Stone and her students is revealing those different stories.

An education professor who teaches middle and high school teachers how to teach science says current curriculum in the classroom is too removed from the real-world science questions kids will face. The remedy? Take them close to the land and its critters so they value it and advocate for it.