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Epidemiologic modeling with Alaska data provides support for new measures implemented by state and municipal leaders to "flatten the curve" and buy additional time for preparation.

Recent headlines have forced many Alaskans to think about the effects of coronavirus for the first time. But for a team of UAA researchers led by Associate Professor Eric Bortz, studying coronavirus has been all in a day’s work for more than 15 years.

In 2006, an undergraduate student in the Andes Mountains of Colombia made the astonishing discovery of 200 nearly perfectly fossilized comma shrimp. UAA Biological Sciences Professor Sarah Gerken, the United States’ resident expert in the field, has been working with him ever since to determine their mysterious death.

During UAA Department of Physics and Astronomy Professor Dr. Travis Rector's 2018 sabbatical, he split his time between Arizona and Chile working on a telescope project decades in the making. Rector hopes that UAA students will be some of the first to get their hands on the groundbreaking data the telescope provides.

Fact: You cannot stop corrosion. But according to assistant professor in mechanical engineering Raghu Srinivasan, you can study it and mitigate its effects, which is what the award-winning professor is doing in his lab and on top of UAA’s Engineering and Computation Building’s parking garage.

For the past two years, recent UAA alumnus Seth Campbell has worked on ICECON, a project commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to assist the U.S. Coast Guard in determining ship travel and safety on the Great Lakes. He's now handing the baton to UAA engineering student Kelsey Frazier for part two of the project, Arctic ICECON.

Squirrels typically aren’t thought of as a good inspiration for comic book superpowers, but UAA biology professor Khrys Duddleston is set to change that.

For the past 27 years, UAA dance professor Jill Flanders Crosby has been working on a project spanning generations, mediums and even the Atlantic Ocean.

UAA junior Henrique Miller recently received the Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious honor awarded to students pursuing careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. He hopes that one day his research will contribute to the field of plasma nuclear fusion.

Rutgers professor and economics alumna Kelcie Ralph returns to UAA as a visiting distinguished professor for the College of Business and Public Policy where she’ll spend her summer working with the Anchorage Museum to improve biking in the city.