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Facing shortages: Alaska pursues plans to recruit more nurses and other health care workers

School of Nursing students in lab

Nome Community Center proposes Housing First project for Nome

A house sitting on a hillside

A study co-authored by School of Social Work professor Heidi Brocious was featured in a KNOM article about how the Nome Community Center proposes a Housing First project for Nome. The study was on the Forget-Me-Not Manor last year.

Aguiniga, Trawver co-author article on low-income mothers’ perspectives about their intimate partner relationships

A mother with her two children look at the landscape of a mountain

School of Social Work faculty members Donna Aguiniga and Kathi Trawver co-authored an article that employs the voices of 22 low-income mothers to examine the factors that influence how low-income mothers perceive their intimate partner relationships.⁠

Citizens hide from active shooters as Alaska fails to deliver on 2019 promise of village troopers

Houses of a rural village on a sloping hill

The Alaska Justice Information Center's trooper staffing study, titled "Alaska State Troopers C Detachment Patrol Staffing Study Final Report and Description of Police Incidents," was featured in an Anchorage Daily News article about how the AST understaffs rural Alaska.

Over $60,000 donated to support Alaska’s Doctor of Pharmacy students

Bernie's Pharmacy representatives deliver a check to UAA/ISU Pharmacy program leadership and students

Local pharmacy manager supports University of Alaska Anchorage/Idaho State University

Justice alumnus Alexander Choi graduates from APD 21-1 Police Academy

Portrait of Alexander Choi

When alumnus Alexander Choi graduated from the Justice Center with a BA in Justice in Fall 2020, we asked him what's next. Short and sweet, he said, "Joining the Anchorage Police Department."

Student Primrose Srisakphet featured in Kenai Senior Center newsletter

Photo of Primrose Srisakphet

Kenai Peninsula Campus HUMS student Primrose Srisakphet was featured in the Kenai Senior Center newsletter as a member of the team while she completes her practicum.

Allied Health Program Research Receives National Recognition

 Grace Leu Burke, program director for Medical Laboratory Science

The Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) program was recently recognized for its work during the ASCP 2021 Hybrid Annual Meeting.

CSI: UAA

Criminal Investigation students observe a mock crime scene

To students in UAA Justice Center instructor Glen Klinkhart’s Criminal Investigation course, the end of the semester is, quite literally, murder. For his lab practicum, Klinkhart—a homicide detective, true crime author, and computer forensics expert—stages the scene of his own murder in a UAA lecture hall and challenges the budding investigators in his class to solve the crime.

Dr. Mary Ann Hautman establishes Indigenous Nursing Endowed Scholarship

Beatrice McCarty

“I never thought I would be involved in philanthropy, but after gaining an in-depth understanding of the program and working with Dr. Tina DeLapp, I decided to establish an endowment to the Recruitment and Retention of Alaska Natives into Nursing (RRANN), as a beneficiary of my modest estate.”

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