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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.

UAA biology graduate student Kelly Ireland is working on collaborative research involving stickleback fish. These tiny and abundant fish are the subject of intensive study at UAA and elsewhere because of their genetic variability and surprising physiological parallels with humans.

Even though the ground briefly tried to tear itself apart on Nov. 30, 2018, UAA’s community of alumni, faculty and staff volunteered from near and far to pick up the pieces.

What does the underside of sea ice look like? Until recently, no one needed to know. But with oil drilling on the rise in Alaska, the threat of spills has increased. UAA engineers explored beneath the ice to prepare for a potential spill.

Over the last three years, assistant professor of health sciences Jennifer Meyer delved deep to find out what happened in Juneau after the community removed fluoride from their drinking water.

For UAA senior Angela Cook and junior Hannah Crayton, their undergraduate research recently took them to Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, to search for the elusive supernovae in a galaxy far, far away.

Fresh from a study on Denali, UAA professor and sleep expert Chris Jung led a team to the world's tallest mountain to research caffeine's effects on cognitive function, physical response and sleep physiology at higher altitudes.