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IT Services made recent security enhancements to the self-service password reset service known as ELMO (Easy Login Maintenance Option). Keep reading for more details.

University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen told Anchorage community leaders in his annual State of the University address that Alaskans should have confidence in the university to deliver on its promise to meet the state’s future workforce needs and take pride in the students who are working to populate that future workforce.

A test of the on-campus emergency alerting system has been scheduled for Feb. 23, 2018, at 9 a.m. IT Services has implemented some software upgrades, and we will be activating all Cisco telephone speakerphones on the Anchorage, Eagle River, JBER and Bragaw sites. Note that this alert test will NOT activate your mobile phone, email, text or other methods.

The National Science Foundation recently awarded its Faculty Early Career Development Award to Dr. Michele Yatchmeneff, an ANSEP alumnus and mentor as well as an engineering professor at University of Alaska Anchorage. The $500,000 research grant, the third NSF grant in Yatchmeneff’s relatively young career, will advance a study on the importance of belonging in Alaska Native STEM education.

Two finalists for the position of Executive Dean for the Alaska College of Education will visit UAA to meet with stakeholders and any interested parties. Dr. Steve Atwater will be on campus Feb. 20, 2018, and Dr. Kathryn Hildebrand's visit is set for March 8, 2018.

The University of Alaska Anchorage has secured more than $2.5 million in federal funds through the U.S. Department of Education’s TRIO Upward Bound program to help Anchorage high school students become college ready. The grants, disbursed over a five-year period, will cover staffing and programming costs for UAA to serve 120 students in the Anchorage School District.