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Feedback request: UAA Administrative Management Structure Review

As you may recall, Chancellor Sandeen initiated the Administrative Management Structure Review in December 2020. The task was given to the Campus Planning Advisory Board (CPAB). The committee was charged to conduct a review of administrative management positions at UAA, alongside similar efforts at UAF, UAS and the system office.

Announcement of finalists for the Institutional Research Director position

As co-chairs of the UAA Institutional Research Director search committee, we are pleased to announce the finalists for the position and the process for virtual campus visits next week.

April 21: Department of Writing's Celebration of Student Writing

Special invitation to a Celebration of UAA Student Writing — Awards, Fun, Reading

Please join us in celebrating our students' work and pass along this invitation to students and anyone else you think might be interested in joining this fun and special event.

ISER Webinar: The state and the stimulus: a presentation on Alaska’s economy

Join us for a lunchtime webinar with Associate Professor of Economics Mouhcine Guettabi. He will discuss the state of the economy, how the stimulus affects his forecast, and will offer a few notes on the budget. If you missed his recent testimony to the legislature, this is your chance to watch a similar presentation and participate in a Q&A session.

POSTPONED: School of Nursing DNP Project Defense - David Ampong

On Wednesday, April 21, David Ampong, MS, MSN, MHA, APRN, PMHNP-BC will present his final DNP project, “Evaluating the Patient Experience in Outpatient Detoxification: Implication for Improvement of the Early Stages of Alcohol Use Disorder and /or Opioid Use Disorder: Implication for Recovery Treatment Process," beginning at 3:30 p.m.

Enthusiasm for research benefits undergraduates in the Department of Economics

UAA Associate Professor Of Economics Alexander James photographed outside Rasmuson Hall.

“We really feel like we’re building something here,” said Alexander James, associate professor of economics. “We’re a teaching department and also a nationally and internationally recognized research department, and we’re bringing our students with us in some respects. For students that want to do real research, UAA provides an opportunity to discover something and contribute to the existing body of knowledge in economics, and that’s exciting.”

WATCH: The secrets of rat laughter

UAA psychology senior Tucker Sawyer with one of the rats being used in his research on rat laughter

Psychology senior Tucker Sawyer is studying rat laughter for his senior thesis. It’s no joke. In fact, identifying and categorizing the ultrasonic vocalizations of lab rats could change the way we interpret drug research, care for lab animals and understand the origins of our own sense of joy.

UAA students and faculty collaborate to curb the spread of COVID-19 misinformation

Alumna Mary Ryan, B.A. Journalism and Public Communications ’20, former president of the Public Relations Student Society of America chapter at UAA.

As the world continues to navigate this once-in-a-generation pandemic, new scientific breakthroughs are unearthed every day. Accompanying this free flow of information is an increase of damaging misinformation. Working to curb the spread of online misinformation is the Alaska Public Health Information Response Team, a multidisciplinary collaboration between professors and students in UAA’s Department of Journalism and Public Communications and College of Health.

New UAA scholarships support first-time and returning students

University of Alaska Anchorage has ramped up efforts to increase enrollment in the past year, with incentives for returning students, first-time freshmen and residential students.

Parking lot closures scheduled for mid-May

In mid-may, the Central Parking Garage will be closed Sunday evening (May 16, 2021) and remain closed through Wednesday (May 19, 2021). Also, on Tuesday (May 18, 2021), the Spine portion connected to the East Parking Lot garage and East Campus Central as well as Alumni Drive between UAA Drive and the Library parking lot entrance will be closed.
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