Archive

Alaska Native students identify values in Confucianism that echo their own traditional character-building upbringing. In short, survival depends on family and family depends on relationships.

Turkey is in the throes of a food revolution. Dr. Zeynep Kilic, an assistant professor of sociology, has just launched new research to examine the changing landscape of food in Istanbul. She'll begin shooting a documentary this summer.

Everybody's heard the term lab rat. But lab turtle? As it turns out, these critters on a half-shell have an amazing capacity to survive on little or no oxygen. UAA professor Jonathan Stecyk and undergraduate researchers are working hard to understand how.

Faculty author Sherry Simpson traced the history of human-bear co-existence in her newest book of essays, based on research and collaboration with Alaska wildlife biologists.

UAA researchers recently installed a new snowless sidewalk on UAA's campus, invented by Civil Engineering Professor Joey Yang. The self-de-icing pavement is the first tangible fruit of a two-year drive to commercialize research by UAA faculty and students. Read more.

UAA Associate Professor of Physics Katherine Rawlins, Ph.D., is part of the global IceCube Collaboration, which recently announced evidence of neutrinos––or subatomic particles––at a South Pole test site. Read about how Dr. Rawlins is contributing to the effort, and how IceCube is pushing neutrinos to the forefront of astronomy.

Does the prickly weed devil's club really soothe inflammation? Are Alaskans who were vaccinated for Hepatitis B 30 years ago still immune? UAA scientists hope to get the funding so they can do the research and find out.

Alaska is only as interesting as its characters. Follow along for a glimpse into Alaska history as we visit and retell stories from the UAA/APU Consortium Library Archives each month.