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Ben Walker '06, a seventh grade science teacher at Romig Middle School in Anchorage, is the 2018 Alaska State Teacher of the Year. “I really enjoy the fact that every day is different. Every kid is different. Every kid is different every day.”

UAA’s Robotics Club has their sights set on the University Rover Challenge, an annual competition bringing teams from around the world and across the U.S. to the Utah desert to compete for the prize of best Mars-style rover.

UAA’s College of Engineering is partnering with the Structural Engineers Association of Alaska to update the state’s snow load estimates, so civil engineers and structural engineers can create safer structures in both the public and private sectors.

UAA’s Community Engaged Student Assistants play a vital role in aiding professors with their community-engaged projects through the university’s Center for Community Engagement and Learning, while also gaining a valuable, hands-on learning experience for themselves.

This fall, Herminia Din’s Introduction to Art Education Class learned about the art of upcycling. Partnering with local nonprofit Anchorage re:Made, her students were not only tasked with transforming discarded "junk" into art, but also how to market and host an art showcase event.

Thanks to the polar cold, Alaska's oceans are largely free of invasive species. But that's changing... quickly. Biologists at the Alaska Center for Conservation Science, a research arm of UAA, recently concluded a three-year study ranking 46 economic and ecologic threats to the rapidly warming region.

The University of Alaska Anchorage celebrated the graduates of the fall Class of 2017 on Sunday, Dec. 17. This ceremony honors the accomplishments of more than 1,100 undergraduate, graduate and professional school students from the Anchorage campus, more than 120 of whom graduated with master’s or doctoral degrees.

Taylor Noga works hard to stay sharp in both engineering and volleyball. A two-time member of the conference all-academic team, she's a junior civil engineering major with eyes on the future. “I know it’s going to get harder, but I’m excited for the challenge.”

Natural sciences major Angela Cook was recently awarded an Alaska Space Grant Research Fellowship for her undergraduate research which focuses on modeling supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies.

Ever since Alexandria McLearen was a little girl, there have been three things in life she was sure about: she would attend college, stay in Alaska and pursue a medical degree. Fall 2017’s commencement student speaker gets candid about how family, culture and her love of Alaska influenced her decision to attend UAA.