UAA Alert! Anchorage Campus Inclement Weather Notice for Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025.

Due to unsafe road conditions for Anchorage and surrounding areas, UAA’s Anchorage campus will be on a delayed start today, Thursday, Dec. 4. Campus will open at 10 a.m. to allow for safer travel.

Faculty Directory

Name Research Interests Contact Information
Dr. Erin Hicks
Chair & Professor
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Supermassive black holes
  • Fueling and feedback from active galactic nuclei
 CPSB 202F
(907) 786-7764
ehicks@alaska.edu
Dr. Nathaniel Hicks
Associate Professor
  • Experimental and computational plasma, beam and accelerator physics
  • Plasma diagnostics
  • Fusion energy
 CPSB 202H
(907) 786-1348
nkhicks@alaska.edu
Dr. Tesfaye Kilbret
Term Assistant Professor		   CPSB 202N
(907) 786-1192
tgkibret@alaska.edu
Dr. Jim Pantaleone
Professor
  • Chemobrionics (chemical gardens)
  • Fluid dynamics
  • Synchronization
  • Oscillations
 CPSB 202E
(907) 786-4786
jtpantaleone@alaska.edu
Dr. Katherine Rawlins
Professor
  • Cosmic ray and neutrino astrophysics
 CPSB 202G
(907) 786-1709
krawlins@alaska.edu
Dr. Travis Rector
Professor
  • Astrophysics
  • Science education research
  • Astronomical imaging
 CPSB 202J
(907) 786-1242
tarector@alaska.edu