2014 Archive

Thank you to 2014 UAA Faculty and Staff Longevity Award recipients

 

Newly launched Title IX blog is one-stop for questions

 

Safety Awareness Month: 'Safetember' Launch - Sept. 3, 2014

September is Safety Awareness Month! Attend the launch for Safetember to learn about safety resources on campus and in the community.

2014 Freshman Convocation and Campus Kick-Off this Saturday

 

Weathering a daughter's mental illness and suicide

Mya Dale was a dynamic UAA economics major immersed in debate and campus' LGBTQIA circle, playing basketball and soccer, breakdancing, singing, volunteering at church and helping disabled people when she took her own life at the age of 21. Her mother talks here about Mya's struggles with mental illness.

UAA professor uses Ebola drill to teach virology

Robert Robl

UAA virologist Eric Bortz works in an NIH-funded global network monitoring respiratory pathogens like influenza. The West Africa Ebola outbreak, transmitted by contact with infected body fluids, offers his students the chance to understand how differing pathogens invade the body.

Confronting crises that emerge from the brain

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What would you do if you saw someone who was ill or injured? You would probably rush to help. How about if you saw a person yelling at someone you couldn't see? Mental Health First Aid offers ways to help people with depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and other brain-based disorders.

Community Spotlight: Off the Chain

Off the Chain

The seven-year-old “UAA Bike Club” stickers haven’t lost their green and gold shine just yet. The vivid stickers pop out throughout the workspace at Off the Chain, an Anchorage-based bicycle cooperative and growing city resource that owes much of its early momentum to the now-defunct group at UAA.

Biological clocks: Where arctic ground squirrels meet 'social jet lag'

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UAA researcher Loren Buck has been pondering the biological clocks of arctic ground squirrels for the better part of three decades. He's working to understand the persistence of their rhythms and how that might relate to human health.

Aug. 26-28, 2014: Lincoln Financial Advisors on campus

 
2014 Posts Archive