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Alaska Native nursing students leave home to grapple with rigorous classes. UAA's RRANN program brings them in, enfolding them in a warm, supportive community that helps them succeed.

Kelsi Swenson, Hope Meyn and A'Lena Sorenson are three Millennials who care. Club officers for the UAA Sustainability Club, they've been working to ensure sustainability remains, well, sustainable on campus. And they're also having fun doing it.

UAA is celebrating Veterans Appreciation Week Nov. 7–14. In anticipation of Veterans Day, we invited UAA's student, staff, faculty and alumni veterans to take part in a roll call and share their active duty photos with us. View the slideshow.

Bryan Box fought for nearly three years in the mountains of Afghanistan. Now, he helms Student Veterans of UAA and finds purpose and fulfillment in reaching out to homeless veterans and helping his community.

UAA's Student Health and Counseling Center helps students get well so they can focus on attaining an education. It recently won an award for its other mission: helping nursing students learn to care for patients.

Alaska Native-owned Ryan Air is a third-generation family business that looks to both their family tree and the wide network of UAA alumni to staff their operations in 73 villages across Western Alaska.

Want to merge your love for cars with technical and academic expertise? UAA's automotive technology classes help students carve their own career niches.

Dr. Jeff Hou, a landscape architect, creative placemaker, author and department chair from University of Washington will share some cross-cultural community design success stories as this year's ENGAGE Week keynote speaker. You're invited to join the discussions.

Like any good road trip, UAA pilot Ash Burrill programmed the GPS, stopped at small town gas stations and found end-of-the-day motels to call it a night. But instead of a road-weary sedan or VW bus, he was flying UAA's newest plane back from Virginia on a five-day cross-continent trek through the clouds.

An upcoming CCEL Think Tank seeks to find new ways to help refugees adjust to a place with a different language and different culture.