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The Alaska Quad is an easy-to-miss secret garden behind the Fine Arts Building, populated with student sculptures just waiting to be discovered. Take a stroll in the sunshine and explore the many mysteries of this often overlooked corner of campus.

Eyes watering and itchy? Throat scratchy? Sinuses stuffed? Better check the Anchorage pollen count. UAA is a partner in keeping the counts available.

Tourism is nearly a $4 billion industry in Alaska, and UAA graduates are involved in all corners of the market. We checked in with three academic departments that guide graduates to tourism careers: hospitality and restaurant management, theatre and, yes, even civil engineering.

Anchorage is one of the most diverse cities in the nation, and UAA is one of several health- and language-focused advocates working to ensure health information is delivered to everyone, whether you speak English or Lao or Wolof or Samoan or Nuer or Korean or Russian or...

UAA history professor Ian Hartman has long been fascinated with questions of race, public policy and popular culture. Now, the 2016 Selkregg Community Engagement & Service Learning Award winner hopes to create a definitive history of African Americans in Southcentral Alaska.

Sixty percent of the spring class of 2016 is age 25 to 49. Thirty-five percent are first-generation college students, 36 percent relied on Pell grants and 13 percent on the Alaska Performance Scholarship. Eleven percent were UA Scholars.

Veronica Martinez, a UAA mechanical engineering student, recently became a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals scholar. She talks with us about her life, the scholarship, and her upcoming year in Germany.

Ben Hurst's new home in September will be Germany, as he fulfills the travel and teaching opportunities that come to Fulbright scholars. He is UAA's ninth German language Fulbright scholar.

The recent Alaska Native Studies Conference included a look at Alaska Native corporations, including how they reflect Alaska Native values, and expectations for their longevity.

The National Academy of Inventors recently honored one of UAA's leaders, inducting Dr. Helena Wisniewski as one of its 2015 fellows during a ceremony in Washington, D.C.