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UAA’s College of Engineering facilities manager Kim Riggs competed in the Iditarod Trail Invitational 1,000-mile bike race. It was a 21-day trek that tested her physical and mental strength to cycle through some of Alaska’s most challenging wilderness.

Reid Brewer, former director of University of Alaska Southeast’s Fisheries Technology program, will become UAA’s Kachemak Bay Campus director come June. The professor and marine biologist has dedicated his career to connecting the communities he’s lived in through education.

Nine months of hard work will culminate this weekend when a team of UAA engineers travel to Minnesota to launch a rocket capable of reaching the speed of sound.

UAA celebrated the spring Class of 2019 on Sunday, May 5, in the Alaska Airlines Center. The ceremony honored the accomplishments of more than 1,200 undergraduate, graduate and professional school students from the Anchorage campus.

UAA alumna Maia Wen was recently awarded the Fulbright Student Scholarship, but her path to earning the prestigious award hasn’t been easy.

Spring 2019 Commencement Speaker Geser Bat-Erdene is known around UAA for his roles in advocacy and student government. An international student, Bat-Erdene has a unique perspective on the need for citizens in a democracy to hold their leaders accountable.

It was an idea sparked by two UAA professors more than a decade ago to create the city’s first Climate Action Plan, that has now come to fruition over a new memorandum of understanding between UAA and the Municipality of Anchorage to collaborate on combating climate change in Alaska’s largest urban center.

It was an idea sparked by two UAA professors more than a decade ago to create the city’s first Climate Action Plan, that has now come to fruition over a new memorandum of understanding between UAA and the Municipality of Anchorage to collaborate on combating climate change in Alaska’s largest urban center.

Social work alumna Rebecca Barker is Anchorage’s first community resource coordinator. Based in the Loussac Library, she’s part of a growing movement that includes more than 50 social work programs in libraries across the country.

Alumnus Kohl Keil, B.S. Mechanical Engineering '18, is packing his bags and heading to Germany as the 12th UAA student to receive the prestigious Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals.