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Construction management grad Chris Edwards, B.S. '11, keeps infrastructure in top shape for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service across the agency's 78.6 million acres of Alaska wilderness.

Eva Gregg is on many journeys. One is to climb mountains and be healthy. Another is to finish college and begin a career helping people like herself. Read how she uses digital storytelling to achieve her goals.

Magnificent Hatcher Pass is serving as a summer classroom for UAA historical archaeology field school students learning to measure, record and "read" the features of a Depression-era gold mine perched on a mountain slope.

David Stevenson's latest book, "Warnings Against Myself," is a generous overture into the private world of a thoughtful mountaineer. Stevenson reads from new work July 19 as a part of the CWLA summer reading series.

Banana latte, anyone? As the only student-operated coffee shop on campus, Union Station has the ability to be creative, and that youthful energy shows in their menu, events, advertising and, most of all, in their daily interactions with regulars.

Extreme conditions in the Arctic make travel challenging. Response agency representatives and researchers met at UAA to identify knowledge gaps and propose operator-driven research questions.

Bruce Bustamante, B.B.A. '99, has built a career sharing the beauty and benefits of Anchorage, first as a leader in the local tourism industry and now as president of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce.

Teens who struggle to read, focus on tasks or even make eye contact with others are taking part in a UAA program designed to help them adapt to life on the job.

UAA scientists and students surveyed uplands on the Big Island of Hawaii in search of sites that demonstrate human passage and use. Their next project takes them in August to a jungle-covered region on the island of Oahu.

How are power and place names connected? UAA anthropology student Jana Lekanoff is researching this question in her home community of Unalaska Island.