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Last month, eight student-leaders headed to Juneau to advocate for their 16,000 classmates in Anchorage. Student Body President Alec Burris and Vice President Geser Bat-Erdene talk about the fly-in, their message to legislators, and the value of student advocacy.

Drones can play a major role in education, but someone has to teach the teachers first. Thanks to a partnership with UAA, teachers can study drones and earn professional development credits toward their teaching license thanks to a tailored course from alumni-owned Advanced Aerial Education.

New luminaires will open the door for choreographers and lighting designers to collaborate much more deeply in how to tell the story of a dance or a drama/comedy on stage.

Three professors from three departments planned a one-night "Idita-trip" this month, bringing guests to Red Shirt Lake to sit around the wood stove and talk about science, art and how UAA can play a role in Alaska's sustainable tourism development.

Sophomore skier Hailey Swirbul has traveled the world this semester, reaching the podium twice at the NCAA Championship in March, and earning two medals at Junior World Ski Championships in February, and accomplishing it all while holding a 4.0 in civil engineering back in Anchorage.

The first-ever release of a North Slope 3D seismic data set through the State of Alaska will help 2018 ConocoPhillips Arctic Science and Engineering Endowment award winners Professor Simon Kattenhorn and his graduate student, Triffon Tatarin, to get a much better grip on the geologic underpinnings of about 400 square miles of the North Slope.

Five UAA geoscience grad students lay it on the line Friday in their first run at the worldwide Imperial Barrel Award competition. Will they find oil at their subsurface site in Australia?

Each year, hundreds of high school and college students gather at UAA to debate international policy during the Model United Nations of Alaska conference. As this year’s secretary-general, longtime participant and UAA's latest Truman Scholar Jacob Shercliffe is hard at work keeping diplomacy alive.

Human services alumna Heather Harris '04 is CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska, the latest step in a youth-focused social services career that began as a teenage volunteer at UAA.

Interim Vice Provost for Student Success Claudia Lampman discusses her strategies to move the needle on UAA's retention and graduation rates.