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The University of Alaska Anchorage transforms lives with over 150 academic certificate and degree programs, student-focused support services, and a dedicated and talented faculty.
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UAA is located in the ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina, Ahtna, Alutiiq/Sugpiak, and Eyak/dAXunhyuu Peoples. Alaska Native academic programs at UAA provide an in-depth perspective on contemporary languages, cultures, history, politics, art, governments and corporations. Alaska Native student support programs provide centers for belonging across UAA.
November 14, 2018
The Peanut Butter & Jelly Drive, which runs Nov. 5-16, 2018, provides the UAA community an opportunity to pay for parking citations with a food donation.
November 13, 2018
This touring, one-act play tells the story of Nick, a young boy from a country called Homeland, and his family’s struggle to assimilate after immigrating to Alaska. Audiences feel Nick’s frustration through the use of clever technique: Nick and his family speak English while his classmates speak gibberish.
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The Student Health and Counseling Center is providing flu vaccine Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, 1–3 p.m. in the Administrative/Humanities Building lobby.
This past July in Utqiagvik, former associate professor of political science Dalee Sambo Dorough was unanimously voted to serve as international chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, a position that represents 165,000 Inuit across Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia.
Salmon will soon be swimming on the ceiling at the UAA Planetarium and Visualization Theater, thanks to faculty and students from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and their work visualizing five years of data collected on the Kenai River Watershed.
November 12, 2018
Rob Witter from the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage will be presenting on the earthquake geology of the Fairweather Fault in Southeast Alaska, 60 years after the M7.8 Lituya Bay earthquake.
November 11, 2018
Uncertainty is an unavoidable and challenging part of assessing impacts of future development activities. It is also vital to providing transparency in the decision-making process. JoinDr. Sanne Vammen Larsen for a lunchtime talk on the topic Nov. 13, 2018.