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When the university community was shaken by a potential $136 million cut to higher education in the state, UAA political science senior Alex Jorgensen knew he needed to take action.

In late 2018, longtime food writer and creative writing alumna Amy O’Neill Houck took over as co-editor and co-publisher for local food magazine Edible Alaska, one of 90 independently-owned publications that’s part of the Edible Communities network.

Brett Keene landed the ultimate summer internship when an unexpected opportunity arose for him to spend 10 weeks at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, author and nursing science alumna Dr. Kathleen Sutcliffe returns to give the keynote address at UAA's annual Homecoming Breakfast.

When Joe Longuevan’s family moved from Colorado to Alaska his senior year of high school, he was less than thrilled. But now, nearly five years later, the UAA double major in economics and history is entering his senior year and he wouldn’t change a thing.

For UAA alumnus Quenton Nelson, an epic road trip up the Alcan to visit the 49th State led to a geology degree and a lifelong bucket list accomplishment of learning German. Nelson completed a second bachelor’s degree in languages in 2018 and will put his skills to the test this fall when he heads abroad to Austria to teach with the US Teaching Assistantship program.

Anne Velardi recently took home the award for best master’s thesis from the European Network in Aging Studies for her research in cultural age markers.

From sci-fi to fantasy, nonfiction to poetry, we catch up with six UAA alumni authors about their latest releases.

The 2019 Summer Engineering Academies are keeping campus abuzz with activity as elementary, middle and high school students get hands on with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). With UAA faculty teaching courses like “LEGO Robotics” and “Structure Destruction,” students are learning important concepts while quite literally having a blast.

Not long after defending his Ph.D. dissertation, UAA alumnus Peter Kudenov returned to UAA to talk about his surprising journey from computer science to English during a graduation event keynote address.