2015 Archive

With four restaurants, 12 events spaces, catering, room service AND an in-house bake shop, internship opportunities abound at the Hotel Captain Cook. In a community partnership between two of the biggest names in town, UAA culinary students receive on-the-job training in some of the city's top kitchens.

If you love history, you love learning about Anchorage's early years. UAA history professors contributed support and expertise to Cook Inlet Historical Society's recent four-day symposium on the city's first 100 years. Next, they'll join in editing the symposium's companion volume.

If you ever wondered if your dreams were worth chasing, read Elizabeth Robinson's tale. This August she launches an academic chapter that fulfills her passion for dance and culture. It wasn't easy getting here, she says, but well worth the journey.

In 1941, 29-year-old Beulah "Bee" Marrs boarded a ship to Alaska, a land she had long dreamed of seeing. It was supposed to be a summer vacation, but Bee found a job with Bristol Bay Air Service, found a home in "The Bee Hive" and organized USO dances and other activities for World War II servicemen.