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University of Alaska Anchorage News
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Jan. 6, 2021Read Article
A virtual auction to help save the University of Alaska Anchorage hockey team is underway. The auction has memorabilia from the biggest names Alaska hockey, the NHL plus other experiences you could only find in Alaska.
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UAA is doing incredible work for Alaska. It deserves your respect.
Dec. 15, 2020Read ArticleUAA faculty stepped up to respond to the pandemic in many ways, including developing predictive models to track infection rates and intensive care unit utilization. They have also trained hundreds of contact tracers to serve the region and the state. I would proudly and confidently stack UAA up against any other open-access, urban-metropolitan university in the United States. UAA is that good.
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Bruce Schultz named University of Alaska Anchorage interim chancellor
Dec. 9, 2020Read ArticleUAA Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Bruce Schultz will serve as the university’s interim chancellor, Alaska’s university system president announced Wednesday.
University of Alaska Fairbanks News
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UAF appoints new interim athletic director
Jan. 8, 2021University of Alaska Fairbanks Chancellor Dan White has appointed UAF School of Management faculty member Peggy Keiper to serve as interim athletic director for the Alaska Nanooks, the university announced in a statement on Thursday.Read Article -
University of Alaska Fairbanks joins study of prehistoric mummified wolf remains
Jan. 7, 2021The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) has participated in the study of wolf pup remains that have been dated to more than 50,000 years old.Read Article -
UAF’s Seward Marine Center Celebrates 50 Years
Dec. 21, 2020Read ArticleThe University of Alaska Fairbanks Seward Marine Center celebrated its 50th birthday this year, marking a half-century of becoming the premier research-oriented marine facility in Southcentral Alaska.
University of Alaska Southeast News
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Jan. 5, 2021The Rural Alaska Students in One-Health Research (RASOR) program started its second year ready to tackle new challenges.Read Article -
Already ‘good at remote,’ UAS Sitka enrollment rides a promising wave during pandemic
Dec. 22, 2020Read ArticleSitka’s campus of the University of Alaska Southeast is closed to the public, but education is happening there — at greater levels than anyone expected.
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University of Alaska Fairbanks Alumnus receives Young Native Leader Award
Dec. 8, 2020Dr. X’unei Lance Twitchell teaches Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS). On Monday, November 30th, Twitchell was honored with the “First Alaskan Institute Young Native Leader Award.”Read Article