UAA is the premier university in the heart of Alaska's largest city with campuses throughout Southcentral Alaska. Where culture, innovation and adventure converge, the unique locations provide unparalleled access to industry connections, Arctic research, outdoor recreation and more, facilitating once-in-a-lifetime experiences, groundbreaking education and impactful careers.
UAA offers more than 100 degree and certificate programs that consistently prepare students for success after graduation. State-of-the-art classroom instruction and hands-on learning collide in UAA's innovative academic programs, which feature unique courses that train students to lead Alaska into the future.
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From 13 competitive NCAA teams to recreation and intramural and club sports, students have the opportunity to excel in athletics at every level. The Alaska Airlines Center and Seawolf Sports Complex offer recreation as well as hosting community events and concerts. Students can take advantage of cheering for SeawolfNation with free tickets to many games.
UAA is a hub for cutting-edge theoretical and applied research in health, engineering, and the physical and social sciences. In nearly every discipline, undergraduate and graduate students have the opportunity to join research teams and collaborate with experienced faculty mentors.
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UAA is located in the ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alutiiq/Sugpiak, and Eyak/dAXunhyuu Peoples. Alaska Native academic programs at UAA provide an in-depth perspective on contemporary languages, cultures, history, politics, art, governments and corporations. Alaska Native student support programs provide centers for belonging across UAA.
December 05, 2018
UAA's Simon Kattenhorn recently attended a NASA workshop to determine the likelihood of contaminating Europa's subsurface ocean should a mission to Jupiter's moon go awry.
November 28, 2018
With the abundance of farmers markets popping up across the city and state, Angie Zheng, associate professor of economics in UAA’s College of Business and Public Policy, set out with six students this past fall to answer the question, why buy local?
November 27, 2018
A recent study published by Richelle Johnson, lead analyst for UAA’s Center for Economic Development and economics alumna, just confirmed what owners of a certain beloved bumper sticker already know: Alaska girls rule.
November 20, 2018
UAA professors LeeAnn Munk and Eric Klein are working with scientists across the UA system to examine the impact of climate change on two Alaska ecosystems: the boreal forest and the Gulf of Alaska.
November 13, 2018
Salmon will soon be swimming on the ceiling at the UAA Planetarium and Visualization Theater, thanks to faculty and students from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and their work visualizing five years of data collected on the Kenai River Watershed.
September 04, 2018
It took UAA assistant professor and researcher Kathryn Milligan-Myhre a few rounds of exploring degree options before settling on microbiology. But now, with the help of a little fish, she’s found her calling to help solve some of medicine's puzzling questions when it comes to disease in humans.
August 21, 2018
This summer, record-holding track and field sprinter and anthropology senior Nicholas Taylor embarked on his first archaeological dig at the historic Swan Lake, the oldest identified human site in North America, estimated to be 14,200 years old.
August 13, 2018
UAA scientists are in the middle of a two-year assignment to monitor the roosting and migrating behavior of Alaska's little brown bats in light of the devastating white-nose syndrome that has killed 6 million bats across the U.S. and Canada.
Dr. Brandon Briggs is an associate professor of biological sciences who has recently worked with NASA to send strains of E. coli to the International Space Station. By studying E. coli under the microgravity of space, Briggs hopes to find a way to produce the biofuel isobutene more efficiently.
July 26, 2018
A cohort from the University Honors College recently traveled to Cuba for undergraduate research work, supported by a three-year pilot affiliation between UAA, the Anchorage Museum and the Ludwig Foundation in Havana, Cuba.