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Year one of medical school? Been there, done that! Meet two Alaska Native WWAMI students spending their summer with top researchers at UAA before starting year two in Seattle.

Fisheries in Alaska can and do crash, so how do families in subsistence areas help each other through times of scarcity? UAA scientists are exploring indigenous cultures to find out.

Professor Diane Hirshberg has spent her academic career trying to understand what works in schools, what doesn't, and why. "We know something very different has to be done." Read more about proposed reforms.

“One dark, rainy day in September, 1952, a group of eight women met to form a new Homemakers’ Club. Upon looking out the window at the area surrounding them, they all agreed that ‘Muddy Acres’ would be an appropriate name for the club, and it has stuck to this day." Meet Alaska's take on June Cleaver.

Why do bad boys win the girls? It goes all the way back to our early hunter-gatherer selves, when males who took risks demonstrated their ability to survive. A soon-to-be published paper by UAA social scientists connects our evolutionary and modern behavior.

As the world's population blows past seven billion, UAA molecular biologist Eric Bortz says we can expect more infectious outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. Bortz and a group of undergraduates are working to better understand how some viruses manage to evade our immune system.

Forty-four years ago, President Nixon authorized an invasion of Cambodia, extending the boundaries of the Vietnam War. Antiwar protests on college campuses across America heated up. Nixon's Secretary of the Interior, Walter J. Hickel, surprised everyone with a letter in support of the youthful protestors.

Senior history and German double major Jordan Norquist delved into Alaska WWII history to get a closer look at the context surrounding Alaska's refusal to admit 10,000 Jewish refugees. "It's kind of hard to swallow," she said.

Two years ago, Robert Robl, a UAA University Honors College student, had never heard of the tragic 1918 flu epidemic that killed millions of people worldwide and decimated Alaska Native villages. Now he and a UAA professor, Dr. Eric Bortz, are hoping to learn what made that flu so devastating and uncover strategies that could help vanquish it and other viruses.