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For geomatics professor Caxia Wang, it's all about location, location, location.

Dave Dannenberg and colleague Heather Nash of the Academic Innovation & eLearning Center have secured a major, five-year funding stream from the U.S. Department of Education aimed at improving the online learning environment at UAA.

Finding dangerous gaps between child-protection policy and practice is the focus of Dr. Diwakar Vadapalli's work with ISER and as chair of the Alaska Citizen Review Panel, which scrutinizes the work of agencies tasked with keeping kids safe from neglect and abuse.

UAA's new Filipino American club dedicated a recent meeting to everyone's favorite topic—food. In celebration of Filipino American History Month, the club invited 100 guests to Cuddy Hall for an evening of Filipino food and a discussion on the intersect of culture and cuisine.

UAA finance professor John Nofsinger is an expert on socially responsible investing. So, does it pay?

In geology—where things are measured in millennia—Portage Lake is barely a blink in Alaska’s existence. But in the lake's 101 year existence, it's expanded over five miles thanks to the rapid retreat of Portage Glacier.

Meet Karen Andrews, UAA's new director of Disability Support Services. She believes in the law, but works to win hearts.

Kaj Lynöe, from northern Sweden, and Tuukka Törmänen, from northern Finland, are both recent arrivals in Anchorage thanks, fittingly, to the north2north educational exchange program. "It has really opened up my worldview," Tuukka says.

What do Back Seat Betty, Lil’ Red Vette and WickedSpeedia have in common? They’re all women who bonded in the Rage City Rollergirls’ bruising bouts. And, they all have a connection to UAA. Read about it in this Project 49 story about Anchorage's roller derby powerhouse.

Most Alaskans wouldn't link the word opera with Unalakleet, a community of 700 located just at the mouth of its namesake river on Norton Sound. Maybe not — until now. UAA vocal performance student and coloratura soprano Kira Eckenweiler grew up in Unalakleet.