October 3rd, 2014

Student Achievement and Faculty Excellence: Maria Crouch and Jordan Skan, two students in the joint UAF-UAA Ph.D. in Community Clinical Psychology program and members of Alaska Native Community Advancement in Psychology, received prestigious NIH minority research fellowship awards. Each will be working on their own developed projects as part of an NIH-funded research project entitled, "Technology Innovations for Supporting Health in Alaska Native People, with Judith Prochaska, Ph.D., MPH from Stanford University School of Medicine as the principal investigator. 

UAA held its first Faculty Research and Creative Activity Showcase featuring work from over 60 faculty members at the opening of the Alaska Airlines Center.

Dr. Natasa Masonovic, chair of the Languages Department and Associate Professor of German, is being honored as one of the 25th Annual YWCA Alaska/BP Women of Achievement Awardees on Nov. 13.

Anthropology professor Dr. Ryan Harrod co-authored an article titled "Peace at Any Cost: When Violence is Used as Social Control" in September/October 2014 issue of Anthropology News.  

Brian Partridge, Kachemak Bay College associate professor of Psychology, published "Adolescent Pediatric Decision-Making: A Critical Reconsideration in the Light of the Data," in the Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum journal.

UAA Partnerships with Alaska's Schools. A record number, 220, of Kenai Peninsula Borough School District high school students registered for Kenai Peninsula College courses for fall 2014 almost doubling last fall's registration of 113. The JumpStart program, funded by the Borough and subsidizing up to six credits at $55/credit instead of $174/credit, expanded to include juniors.

UAA Partnerships with Alaskans: The 22nd Annual Celebrity Chef Invitational raised nearly $44,000 for the UAA Culinary Arts and Hospitality Scholarship Fund. Preliminary tallies show 450 people attended this year's Green and Gold Gala which raised about $80,000 for student scholarships.

The Alaska Law Review, Alaska Bar Association, and UAA are hosting the Alaska Law Review Symposium on opportunities and change in Alaska's Emerging Frontiers featuring keynote speakers Fran Ulmer and Dr. William Iggiagruk Hensley.

Research in Support of Alaskans: UAA hosted Arctic researchers from Germany, Poland, Russia, Austria, Canada, the U.S. and Finland at the initial meeting of the NSF-funded "Arctic-FROST: Arctic FRontiers Of SusTainability: Resources, Societies, Environments and Development in the Changing North" project.

UAA Accountability to Alaskans: UAA is scheduling focus groups and encouraging students to meet with members of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights visiting on Oct. 8 and Oct. 9.

Student Affairs launched the "Add/Drop Drive Thru" lane allowing students to drive up and drop off paperwork during high volume times.