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Research project led by UAA’s Micah Hahn receives grant funding from EPA

UAA Associate Professor of Environmental Health Micah Hahn is leading a research project around climate change, health, wildfire smoke and environmental justice in Alaska that recently received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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UAA faculty and students use machine learning to debunk COVID-19 misinformation

Part of the Division of Population Health Sciences and Department of Journalism and Public Communication’s Alaska Public Health Information Response Team project, computer science Professor Shawn Butler has been using artificial intelligence to debunk COVID-19 misinformation on social media with scientifically accurate information from credited sources.
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Liquid earth: UAA researchers study earthquake models

By studying two sites in the Alaska Range near Tok struck by a 2002 earthquake, professor Joey Yang and graduate student Dave Eibert hope to develop new models that may help the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities better prepare for future earthquakes.
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Undergrad research training leads UAA alum to Sandia National Labs

Mechanical engineering grad Peter Renner now contributes to 3D printing and corrosion research as a postdoctoral fellow at Sandia National Laboratories, one of three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development labs in the country.
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