UAA is the premier university in the heart of Alaska's largest city with campuses throughout Southcentral Alaska. Where culture, innovation and adventure converge, the unique locations provide unparalleled access to industry connections, Arctic research, outdoor recreation and more, facilitating once-in-a-lifetime experiences, groundbreaking education and impactful careers.
UAA offers more than 100 degree and certificate programs that consistently prepare students for success after graduation. State-of-the-art classroom instruction and hands-on learning collide in UAA's innovative academic programs, which feature unique courses that train students to lead Alaska into the future.
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From 13 competitive NCAA teams to recreation and intramural and club sports, students have the opportunity to excel in athletics at every level. The Alaska Airlines Center and Seawolf Sports Complex offer recreation as well as hosting community events and concerts. Students can take advantage of cheering for SeawolfNation with free tickets to many games.
UAA is a hub for cutting-edge theoretical and applied research in health, engineering, and the physical and social sciences. In nearly every discipline, undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to join research teams and collaborate with experienced faculty mentors.
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UAA is located in the ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alutiiq/Sugpiak, and Eyak/dAXunhyuu Peoples. Alaska Native academic programs at UAA provide an in-depth perspective on contemporary languages, cultures, history, politics, art, governments and corporations. Alaska Native student support programs provide centers for belonging across UAA.
July 16, 2014
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.
July 02, 2014
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.
June 25, 2014
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.
June 18, 2014
“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.
June 11, 2014
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.
June 09, 2014
May 21, 2014
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.
May 07, 2014
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.
April 30, 2014
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.
April 23, 2014
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.