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New eye tracking research helps piano students become better sight readers

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Three UAA professors have a patent pending on eye tracking software capable of delivering feedback to music students that compares to what a human teacher can deliver. They imagine one day having a library of tablets loaded with this software that students can check out and use.

Envisioning new transportation routes in the Arctic

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UAA civil engineering professor Andrew Metzger has been pondering the challenges and opportunities around Arctic infrastructure for the past four years. It's clear to him that transportation in the Arctic is developing and a corridor along the northwest coast could make a difference in Alaska's economic future.

Homeless youth in Fairbanks, snow disposal in Fairview and Chinook management in Western Alaska—it’s thesis season

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UAA graduate and undergraduate students are feverishly working to net all of their glimmering, wriggly, newly acquired knowledge into a cohesive thesis or capstone presentation before graduation.

Professor Kappes presents on "Identifying Insanity-Qualified Jurors" at 30th Annual Symposium in Forensic Psychology

 

UAA Professor Ryan Harrod's research on violence against women highlighted by 'Alaska Dispatch'

 

Professor Paul Dunscomb publishes new book, 'Japan Since 1945'

Paul Dunscomb's new book, Japan Since 1945, will be released at the Association for Asian Studies National Conference in Philadelphia, March 27-30. The book is part of the Association's Key Issues in Asian Studies series and examines the principal developments in Japanese politics, economics, society and foreign policy since 1945, as well as the question of why, despite all the changes that Japan has undergone since that time, it has not yet escaped the designation "postwar."

Training Alaska to better understand and prevent FASD

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The cost of excessive alcohol consumption in Alaska is staggering. A CDC-funded regional training center here at UAA is helping health care providers and communities better understand and prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Alaska.

What makes a cold city cool? Investigating urban design

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Where you and I might see nothing more than an empty parking lot or a barren stretch of sidewalk, Bree Kessler sees a pop-up drive-in movie theater or space for a mobile library. She's been investigating winter cities as far away as Finland to see what innovations might help make Anchorage outdoor spaces more vibrant.

Designing a cheaper, safer roof for Third World environments

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Engineering professor Scott Hamel and undergraduate civil engineering student Nathaniel Cox are working together to design a lightweight, less expensive and safer roofing system than what's currently being used in most Third World environments.

UAA astronomer puzzles over black holes' sway on galaxies

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Which came first, the galaxy or the black hole? UAA astronomer Erin Hicks' Innovate grant will let her calculate the influence of black holes on galaxies this summer.

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