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Tracey Burke, a professor in UAA’s School of Social Work, has dedicated her career to closing the gap between UAA, the community and raising awareness of food insecurity. Her latest collaboration with Catholic Social Services’ St. Francis House Food Pantry is contributing to a wider community discussion on creating a more just society.

Learn more about the Alaska Highway from a few folks who built it. As the incredible construction project turns 75, we look back on a few of the photos, speeches, memories and letters stored inside Archives and Special Collections at the UAA/APU Consortium Library.

Jalen Konukpeok could fluently speak five languages before finishing high school. From New Stuyahok, he’s now studying in one of the nation’s most diverse cities. “I’m a flight away from home, yet I’m here at the university with people from all across the world.”

James Wilson’s time at UAA has been about breaking new ground. The only researcher in Alaska currently using the revolutionary CRISPR gene editing technique, he recently became the first to produce an important petrochemical using E. coli bacteria.

Alaska's five Chrysler dealerships—in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Soldotna and Wasilla—are jointly funding a new program that brings company-specific training to UAA, providing more opportunities for students and more access for current technicians across the state.

Since the mid-2000s, policymakers in Alaska and nationwide are looking to make better informed decisions on policy regarding criminal justice reform. That is where UAA’s Alaska Justice Information Center comes in—an independent research center to provide data for lawmakers, to help them make evidence-based decisions on policy statewide.

Why is the Dall sheep population dwindling in the Chugach Mountains? Biology student Luke Metherell spent his summer in the mountains to find out.

Since 2012, UAA’s Center for Community Engagement and Learning has hosted the Urban and Rural in Alaska conference, inviting students, faculty, staff and the public to participate in conversations on social and urban issues our community faces.

UAA’s School of Nursing is undergoing a two-year expansion project, with the Kodiak Outreach Site next on the list. Associate Professor Margie Mete has been charged with transitioning the site’s associate program to a bachelor's program.

Friday afternoon, she was on campus finishing a lab exam. Saturday morning, she was in Washington winning her second straight conference title. Medical Laboratory Science senior Caroline Kurgat is a cross country star, but you know what's more impressive? She only started running to earn her nursing degree.