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"Connecting Alaskans" by Heather Hudson captures the tenacity and creativity Alaskans demonstrated as they fought to get their frontier state connected to the world via phone, radio, television and satellite.

Biologist Frank von Hippel tries to figure out how environmental contaminants affect humans, a field called ecotoxicology. But before he came to science, his first love was writing. How did science affect his writing?

Few data are available about the health and well-being of pinnipeds—seals and sea lions—in the Aleutians. That's about to change, as a NOAA-funded UAA researcher and subsistence hunters work together to share findings.

For geomatics professor Caxia Wang, it's all about location, location, location.

UAA finance professor John Nofsinger is an expert on socially responsible investing. So, does it pay?

What role does impulse play in predicting binge-eating and obesity, and are there any other psychological links between the two? A UAA psychology student is using Oreos and 12 albino rats to probe the role impulsivity plays in overeating.

Have you rattled your teeth and spilled your coffee crossing a rutted intersection in Anchorage? A UAA civil engineering professor is on the case. He and his graduate students have developed a new recipe for pavement they say will help our roads endure despite studded tires and freeze-thaw cycles.

The trouble with plastic? It doesn't digest, and new research suggests chemicals stay in the body and metabolize.

Each fall, geology students enrolled in Anchorage Field Studies head out to explore the city with their professor Kristine Crossen, an Alaska geology expert. A recent rainy weekend brought them to a rocky outcrop at Bird Point as they searched for clues of glacial retreat during the last Ice Age.