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Through her work with USUAA, Rose Kruger hopes to keep UAA open access and affordable to other nontraditional students like herself, which she credits with bringing her back to Alaska after taking her own break from school.

Navigating scholarships can be stressful. As a lead coach for the UAA eWolf ePortfolio program, Amanda Magnusen is more than familiar with that feeling, inspiring her to donate her own scholarship.

UAA alumna and Harvard instructor Terzah Tippin Poe, B.A. Journalism and Public Communications ’98, has traveled all over the world lecturing on global issues ranging from sustainability and indigenous rights to social justice and business. Despite her jet-set career, she remains grounded in her Alaska Inupiaq roots and is grateful for what she believes was a world-class education at UAA.

The world is one step closer to having drones deliver pizza straight to our doors. When that day arrives, remember to thank journalism alumna Amber McDonald, B.A. ’10, and her drone safety startup Indemnis.

How integral is Providence to Alaska? Not only does the hospital make up the second half of the namesake UMED District, but the organization is the largest non-government employer in the state, naturally resulting in the employment of a large number of UAA nursing alumni.

Not only has former Seawolf hockey player and marketing alum Brian Kraft made a second home in Bristol Bay with his Alaska Sportsman’s Lodge businesses, but he’s also found a calling by advocating for the preservation of the region.

UAA biological sciences major Michael Martinez has been conducting research his entire life, but the sophomore researcher has come a long way from his elementary school science fair days and may have helped open a new door for Alaska’s mining resource industry.

Shortly after graduating from UAA, ceramics alumnus Lukas Easton moved to Indonesia to spend three months designing a dinnerware set that has since hit the market in Indonesia and Japan.

UAA double bachelor's Journalism and Public Communications and French Language alumna, Maya Narang is fulfilling a childhood dream of living abroad in France, but the path to get there was fraught with bumps in the road along the way.

If you purchase a Coca-Cola product anywhere in the Last Frontier, it’s a good bet that natural sciences alumna and director of sales for the Odom Corporation in Alaska Lessie Kincaid helped get it in your hand.