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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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.