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It took UAA assistant professor and researcher Kathryn Milligan-Myhre a few rounds of exploring degree options before settling on microbiology. But now, with the help of a little fish, she’s found her calling to help solve some of medicine's puzzling questions when it comes to disease in humans.

Meet Greg Myford, UAA’s new athletic director. Myford has a proven track record of intersecting athletic development, scholastic success and community outreach, most recently serving as general manager at IMG College, the largest collegiate sports marketing company in the country.

On Saturday, Aug. 25, UAA welcomed new and returning students to campus to celebrate the beginning of another academic year. More than 150 student clubs, UAA departments and Anchorage businesses hosted booths during the 2018 Campus Kick-Off festival.

UAA’s Della Keats Health Sciences Summer Program is a four-week intensive program that introduces rural Alaska and Alaska Native students to careers in the medical field, while also allowing them to experience campus life in Anchorage.

Alumna Candace Blas has always valued community outreach and engagement. Her passion is put to good use in her role as manager of the Church of Love — a cultural hub and neighborhood center located in the heart of Spenard.

This summer, record-holding track and field sprinter and anthropology senior Nicholas Taylor embarked on his first archaeological dig at the historic Swan Lake, the oldest identified human site in North America, estimated to be 14,200 years old.

Transitioning from high school to college can be overwhelming. From trying to figure out how to sign up for classes to joining campus clubs, and everything in between, the UAA New Student Orientation Wolf Pack helps navigating life as a college student a little less stressful.

UAA scientists are in the middle of a two-year assignment to monitor the roosting and migrating behavior of Alaska's little brown bats in light of the devastating white-nose syndrome that has killed 6 million bats across the U.S. and Canada.

Dr. Brandon Briggs is an associate professor of biological sciences who has recently worked with NASA to send strains of E. coli to the International Space Station. By studying E. coli under the microgravity of space, Briggs hopes to find a way to produce the biofuel isobutene more efficiently.

A cohort from the University Honors College recently traveled to Cuba for undergraduate research work, supported by a three-year pilot affiliation between UAA, the Anchorage Museum and the Ludwig Foundation in Havana, Cuba.