With this new partnership with UAA, the district estimates students will average about 50 hours in the air.

Students receive dual credit for both high school and college through the program. The district pays for the flight time and the cost of UAA course credits.

Micah Hahn, Ph.D. and assistant professor of environmental health in UAA’s Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies, recently co-released the preliminary results of the Southcentral Wildfire Study. She teamed up with researchers at John Hopkins University to study the mental health impacts wildfire has on Alaska’s residents.

It’s hard to envision how profoundly our knowledge of the place we live would be poorer for their absence — but none of them might have come into being without the establishment of the University of Alaska’s Geophysical Institute, which celebrates its 75th birthday this week.

 

A group of University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers and students that spent six weeks at an archeological site just west of the city are compiling reports on what they found in the area, where the gold-mining town of Chena boomed more than a century ago before going bust.

 

 A new high-performance computing cluster hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and provided by the federal government can help save lives and benefit national defense.

 

 “Since 2011 Greens Creek has provided scholarship funding to over 350 Alaska residents to help gain the skills necessary to be successful in the mining industry,” wrote UAS Chancellor Karen Carey. “With over $500,000 going directly to student aid, Hecla Greens Creek is UAS’ largest sponsor of students.”

 

Last year, glaciologist Jason Amundson of the University of Alaska Southeast actually flew out to investigate one of the bigger ice quakes near Wright Glacier and Mount Ogden on the United States-Canada border.

 

Concluding a challenging 15 months of COVID-19 modified programming, University of Alaska Southeast Outdoor Studies students completed two capstone field courses this spring.