2015 Archive

Every school year at UAA kicks off with a three-day, three-river whitewater tour stretching from Cooper Landing to Chickaloon. Take a trip down the Kenai River with students in Beginning River Rafting, one of many adventurous course offerings in the outdoor leadership program at UAA.

Do yourself a favor and learn a second language. Viorica Marian, now a professor at Northwestern University in Chicago, is a world-recognized leader in psycholinguistics, studying how multiple languages change our thoughts, behaviors and even the way we see the world (yes, literally).

UAA's Dr. Jeane Breinig has taken on a new role: acting as an advocate for Alaska Natives and diversity, with the goal of increasing the numbers of underrepresented people who want to join—and stay—in the ranks of the university's students and faculty.

A UAA engineering professor and his colleague at Stanford are teaming up with residents of a Bristol Bay-area village to test the effectiveness of smaller, vertical axis wind turbines to generate lower-cost energy in the village. Find out how an array of these smaller wind turbines behave like a school of fish.