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Dr. Angelia Trujillo teaches forensic nursing, skills that span the worlds of medicine, law, and violence. The Journal of Forensic Nursing this year published an article she and two other UAA professors wrote about helping victims and using education to prevent further violence.

Zeynep Kılıç, a professor of sociology at UAA, is in the midst of filming a documentary about food culture in Istanbul, Turkey. Learn more about her research and see a teaser for the film, slated for completion in December 2015.

Undergraduates, graduate students, UAA professors and agency biologists take to the field for inquiry-based science. This teaching method aims at developing citizens who can think critically and find answers to complex and emerging environmental questions.

Dr. Ruth A.M. Schmidt passed away this year at 97 years old, leaving her papers to the Consortium Library Archives & Special Collections. The boxes contain at least a thousand stories, but here's the story of Schmidt surviving the Second Red Scare of the late 1940s-early 1950s, in McCarthy-era D.C.

UAA's Black Student Union hosted a recent panel discussion on civil unrest in Ferguson, Mo. Panelists included a retired Anchorage police officer, a former assistant attorney general for Missouri, an English professor and a history professor. The result was an historical perspective on why "(Ferguson) was always going to happen."

Jervette R. Ward was aiming for a teaching and research position at a Southern university close to her family roots, but an offer from UAA changed her mind. Find out why.

Three UAA professors, with undergraduate research help, surveyed Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Alaska to uncover their health care attitudes and information sources. Startling results—a depression rate of 60 percent for those surveyed—will lead to more study.

Frederick Mears is responsible for a lot of notable things: naming the original Ship Creek settlement "Anchorage," building Alaska's railroads, serving as a railroad engineer in World War I and convincing his lovely wife Jane to move to a mud-speckled frontier town.