2013 Archive

Technology brought students closer in their quest to understand the galaxy when they had a virtual guest lecturer from the Astrophysics Research Institute in the UK recently. Learn more about their long-distance chat.

Alaska grown William Rannals can tell you something about the geography of Anchorage shopping malls—his grandparents homesteaded the land that’s now home to the Dimond Center. But you might really want to pay attention when he talks technical writing. It just might land you a job. Learn more about this technical-writer-by-day, teacher-by-night.

It’s probably safe to say that not many Washington, D.C., lawyers can list “cannery worker” on their resume, but working a slime line in Dutch Harbor was where Glenn Boledovich, now chief of policy for NOAA's National Ocean Service, first earned an ocean-dependent living. Read more about this journalist turned lawyer who was also a one-time Dutch Harbor City Council member.

Rachel Morse, MBA ’08, has accepted the position of assistant vice chancellor for alumni relations at UAA. Rachel, who earned her master’s degree from UAA’s College of Business and Public Policy, has been serving as interim director for alumni relations at UAA since July 2012. During her tenure as interim director, Rachel helped guide UAA’s alumni relations program through the implementation of a new operating structure, including the development of a new UAA Alumni Association and the seating of a new Board of Directors. Learn more about Rachel here.