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Tag along with UAA photographer Phil Hall as he goes inside the kitchens of UAA's Cuddy Hall to chat with culinary arts student Shiloh Sexton.

As technical writing and civic engagement students learn in this unique class collaboration, when your homework results in car seats for refugee families and bus passes for survivors of abuse, there's a lot more at stake than just your GPA.

Former Seawolf gymnast Leisha Knight '00 made a career of the circus, joining traveling troupes on three continents. She returned to Anchorage last month to choreograph a piece for UAA dance students, sharing skills she learned from nearly a decade in the air with Cirque du Soleil.

Confucius Institute is offering another semester of Chinese culture classes, including calligraphy and cooking. Stop by school on a Saturday for these free hands-on public classes.

UAA student Elliott Morris is a modern-day Renaissance man—an opera singer who organized UAA’s first robotics club. He's taught and mentored others interested in robotics—including two stints as a volunteer instructor for high school students at UAA’s Summer Engineering Academies.

Anchorage artist Holly Mititquq Nordlum, B.F.A. ’04, is continuing work on one of her most ambitious projects—a feature-length documentary on Inuit tattooing—thanks in part to a recent Time Warner fellowship from the Sundance Institute. Learn more in her video profile.

Byron Nicholai's videos of his Yup'ik singing, dancing and drumming have cultivated and inspired a devoted following on Facebook. Now, he's a UAA elementary education student and has performed for the President of the United States.

UAA's Holly Martinson is using a $50,000 award from Debbie’s Dream Foundation and the American Association for Cancer Research to discover biomarkers for early detection and treatment of gastric cancer in Alaska Native populations.

Domestic violence was once considered private—people who heard the cries and saw the bruises usually chose to mind their own business, not get involved. Now, faculty, staff and students at UAA are reaching out and stepping in, educating people about how to see and effectively respond to the warning signs of domestic violence.