Facing shortages: Alaska pursues plans to recruit more nurses and other health care workers
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.
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Nome Community Center proposes Housing First project for Nome
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
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
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
Local pharmacy manager supports University of Alaska Anchorage/Idaho State University
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