This is a feature series we are calling “Did You Know.” The project is designed to highlight university excellence and points of pride through
storytelling and data. Our goal is to keep university stakeholders informed about
the university's key role in changing lives and shaping the state's economy. These
vignettes and personal stories illustrate the university's many successes and the
vital and profound impact it has on graduates and all Alaskans.
Did you know?
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January 30, 2021
One success is a technology developed by UAF to solve problems with sewage management but later pivoted to help mitigate growing problems presented by a family of contaminants called PFAS affecting groundwater and soil across the state and other areas of the country.
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January 30, 2021
Since July, SBDC-mentored businesses have raised $52 million in new capital -- an SBDC record.
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January 30, 2021
Desiré Shepler received her Master of Public Health from UAA in 2010 and has gone on to lead multiple innovative organizations that deliver essential social services to Alaskans -- more important than ever during the pandemic.
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January 30, 2021
For the last five years, the UAS Construction Department has partnered with Juneau Housing Trust and the Juneau School District to design and construct five homes for low income families in the Juneau area.
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January 30, 2021
The UAF vet program partners with Colorado State University to train homegrown veterinarians, many of whom remain in Alaska to open or join veterinary practices after they graduate.
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January 29, 2021
Professor James W. Muller has dedicated his career to the study of the former British prime minister, statesman, officer, and writer, publishing dozens of papers, editing books, and traveling the world to lecture on Churchill.
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January 29, 2021
Across the UA system, one third of the fall first year class was comprised of first generation college students.
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January 29, 2021
The ATC program was started in 1971 at Anchorage Community College and has become one of the top air traffic control programs in the country graduating more than 700 students in the past two decades alone.
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January 29, 2021
In 2018 the FAA picked UAF as one of ten programs out of 149 applications to help find ways to advance flight techniques and capabilities that will better serve the state’s diverse needs.
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January 28, 2021
Capp, who graduated from UAS with a Bachelor of Arts in Special Education in 2019 and was recognized as the program’s Outstanding Graduate, received a $5,000 COVID-19 grant from the National Education Association (NEA) Foundation to create flexible learning kits for the students in her classroom at Randy Smith Middle School in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.