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Find out why UAA's experimental economists say the Arctic is like a piñata, and how they're co-creating a class on conflict and cooperation with their counterparts in Tromsø, Norway.

A UAA engineering professor and his colleague at Stanford are teaming up with residents of a Bristol Bay-area village to test the effectiveness of smaller, vertical axis wind turbines to generate lower-cost energy in the village. Find out how an array of these smaller wind turbines behave like a school of fish.

UAA is home to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence, called the Arctic Domain Awareness Center. The center aims to provide information and technology to help the U.S. Coast Guard assess the need to respond to current and future catastrophic events.

Do Alaskans really care how "they do it Outside?" Undergraduate research in philanthropy finds one circumstance where we behave the same, and one where we deviate. Their work has been snapped up in national publications.

Civil engineering professor Tom Ravens got his coastal erosion expertise in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, Alaska and its melting permafrost have his attention. This image shows Golovin on Norton Sound after a 2011 storm. "The next 20 years will be wild," Ravens says.

A UAA engineering professor and graduate student are using a piston, computer and laser to analyze pulses of water, adding to research that could lead to more efficient submarines, wind turbines and microsurgery devices.

No, they're not a rock band. Martin Cenek, left, and three undergraduates, are developing a monitoring network of low-power computer chips with sensors that could detect events like oil spills in the Arctic.

Moose, salmon, arctic ground squirrels, Weddell seals and blueberries came under their scrutiny as they completed a 10-week research project, working alongside top UAA scientific researchers.

In 1941, 29-year-old Beulah "Bee" Marrs boarded a ship to Alaska, a land she had long dreamed of seeing. It was supposed to be a summer vacation, but Bee found a job with Bristol Bay Air Service, found a home in "The Bee Hive" and organized USO dances and other activities for World War II servicemen.