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With a 9.875 on vault and a 4.0 in the classroom, Marie-Sophie Boggasch has set some impressive scores at UAA. They’re pretty remarkable when you consider this international student/Seawolf athlete/top-tier student is also a professional piloting major with a campus job as a flight instructor.

Seeing a dentist at work inspired Jaeyeon "Jenny" Cho, propelling the international student from Seoul, South Korea, toward a career that fuses her two passions—art and science.

With jagged peaks, endless ice, razor-sharp winds and a temperature that rarely tips above freezing, Antarctica is a completely unforgiving land. It’s a place where things can easily go wrong, and often do. And that’s exactly why Mark Peterson headed south.

Jason Hahn studied biological sciences while attending UAA back in the 1990s. Now, he works as program director for the Alaska Sudan Medical Project, drilling water wells and helping spur agricultural growth in a remote, forgotten area of South Sudan.

Bryan Box fought for nearly three years in the mountains of Afghanistan. Now, he helms Student Veterans of UAA and finds purpose and fulfillment in reaching out to homeless veterans and helping his community.

Alaska Native-owned Ryan Air is a third-generation family business that looks to both their family tree and the wide network of UAA alumni to staff their operations in 73 villages across Western Alaska.

He may not be a glam rocker, but UAA's David Bowie, a linguist, does have moments when he captures the crowd's attention. For more than five years, he's been helping UAA students think like linguists and embrace the way they speak as part of their identity.

'Northern Exposure' filmed in Washington state and the ponds of 'Mystery, Alaska' were far south in Alberta, but Dave Worrell is looking to change that. As an economic development specialist with the state's film program, he convinces Hollywood execs to pack their parkas and film their stories on the Last Frontier.

The daughter of a geologist and geophysicist, Anna thought she wanted to be anything BUT a scientist. She earned a degree in French literature before she realized that geology is where she wants to be. So she's back in school, wiser and more focused than ever.

This management and marketing double major is also developing expertise in helping students feel like they belong here at UAA. As student manager of the Daily Den, he welcomes students to "the living room of campus" for snacks and a chat between classes, Monday-Thursday.