2014 Archive

UAA is celebrating Veterans Appreciation Week Nov. 7–14. In anticipation of Veterans Day, we invited UAA's student, staff, faculty and alumni veterans to take part in a roll call and share their active duty photos with us. View the slideshow.

Bryan Box fought for nearly three years in the mountains of Afghanistan. Now, he helms Student Veterans of UAA and finds purpose and fulfillment in reaching out to homeless veterans and helping his community.

Dr. Ruth A.M. Schmidt passed away this year at 97 years old, leaving her papers to the Consortium Library Archives & Special Collections. The boxes contain at least a thousand stories, but here's the story of Schmidt surviving the Second Red Scare of the late 1940s-early 1950s, in McCarthy-era D.C.

UAA's Student Health and Counseling Center helps students get well so they can focus on attaining an education. It recently won an award for its other mission: helping nursing students learn to care for patients.

UAA's Black Student Union hosted a recent panel discussion on civil unrest in Ferguson, Mo. Panelists included a retired Anchorage police officer, a former assistant attorney general for Missouri, an English professor and a history professor. The result was an historical perspective on why "(Ferguson) was always going to happen."