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The UA Center for Economic Development is sharing its findings from the Failure Resilience Project, including a short film featuring candid stories from Alaska entrepreneurs about the highs and lows of starting a business.

In early November, the American Society of Civil Engineers honored UAA Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Aaron Dotson with the 2020 Can-Am Civil Engineering Amity Award, commemorating an exemplary academic and research career.

Researchers from UAA, in collaboration with UAF and the Alaska Departments of Environmental Conservation and Health and Social Services, have developed an in-state capability to detect COVID-19 in wastewater in Alaska.

Shawn Butler, assistant professor of computer science and computer systems engineering with the UAA College of Engineering, spent 20 years in the military and is using her knowledge to help protect waters in the Arctic.

A new study published by a team of UAA and UAF researchers in collaboration with Cook Inletkeeper sheds some light on the puzzling situation of chinook salmon decline in Alaska.

As bee populations decline worldwide, much about Alaska’s bees still remains unknown. Researchers at UAA’s Alaska Center for Conservation Science are partnering with the Bureau of Land Management to find out more about what bees exist in Alaska and what key roles they play in our unique ecosystem.

For over 10 years, UAA psychology Professor Patrick Dulin has worked to leverage technology as a confidential, inexpensive, always available tool to maintain sobriety through the Step Away project, first as an app and soon as a chatbot.

In the Natural Sciences Building in a windowless room lies a machine named the Multipole Plasma Trap, a stainless steel vacuum chamber designed by Nathaniel Hicks, Ph.D., an assistant professor in UAA’s Department of Physics, who established the university's Plasma Physics Laboratory.

As Alaskans we know how vital mobile devices are during a natural disaster. But what happens if our electricity is knocked out? Getu Hailu, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the UAA College of Engineering, has an answer: emergency backup batteries.

"Ask a UAA Expert" shares faculty expertise relevant to what we're experiencing with COVID-19. Recent video segments address cultural impacts of pandemics, COVID-19 risks to older adults, media coverage of the pandemic, health messaging and more.