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From Knight to Seawolf, entrepreneur to Alaska Army National Guard captain, general management alumna Jill King always welcomes the opportunity to grow and change.

Alina Shen always dreamed of working in health care. After high school, she still wasn’t sure what path she should take, but a chance meeting with an advisor sparked her interest in dentistry. Now she’s taking her first big step toward her future career: earning a dental assisting certificate at UAA.

In her four years at UAA, civil engineering senior Kacy Grundhauser has achieved an impressive amount on top of her challenging degree. To top it off, the American Society of Civil Engineers recently recognized her as one of the 2020 New Faces of Civil Engineering – Collegiate Edition.

Dieuleveut Biringanine spent her early childhood living in one of Africa's oldest refugee camps before resettling in the United States. Now, the political science major and international studies minor hopes to one day work for the United Nations and return to the camps to help others who were like her.

As a lifelong ice skater, Oksana Deyneka has always known the role nutrition plays in an individual’s performance. Now as a dietetics alumna, she also knows how proper nutrition can benefit an entire community.

When Kaitlin DeMarcus returned to Alaska in 2009, she knew she wanted to earn a master’s degree but wasn’t sure where to start. It wasn’t until two of UAA’s grant-funded TRIO programs were discontinued in 2016 that she became inspired to grow college access programs in Alaska and pursue a master’s in education at UAA.

JC Schoonmaker rang in the new year and the new decade by qualifying for not one, but two races in Germany: a World Cup race in Dresden and the World Junior Championships in Oberwiesenthal.

Associate Professor in UAA's College of Engineering LuAnn Piccard believes in the power of the journey. Her career trajectory has taken her from Silicon Valley, across the globe and back to Alaska to teach and inspire the next generation of engineering project managers.

Aviation grad Sarah Snell credits her time attending UAA and flying in bush Alaska for giving her the street cred that would prove useful in the aviation community beyond the Last Frontier, most recently helping her land helicopter piloting positions in Africa and Hawaii.

How does a Seawolf end up as a professor all the way in Afghanistan? For interdisciplinary studies alumna Kate O’Neill, it all started at the dinner table.