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All-American Katelynn Zanders is ready for the season ahead, even though the volleyball team is still (temporarily) practicing through the final stages of construction on the new Alaska Airlines Center.

“Alcohol killed my mom. Her life and death motivated me to learn how my Tlingit people got to this place we find ourselves in regarding alcohol,” writes scholar Kyle Wark. His research is the first ever to look at alcohol use among the Tlingit from an anthropological perspective.

Dustin Jenne, a UAA diesel technology student in the Community & Technical College, took home a bronze medal at the national SkillsUSA Championships in Missouri last month. Competitors powered through 14 stations to test the grasp of their diesel tech agility.

UAA virologist Eric Bortz works in an NIH-funded global network monitoring respiratory pathogens like influenza. The West Africa Ebola outbreak, transmitted by contact with infected body fluids, offers his students the chance to understand how differing pathogens invade the body.

What would you do if you saw someone who was ill or injured? You would probably rush to help. How about if you saw a person yelling at someone you couldn't see? Mental Health First Aid offers ways to help people with depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and other brain-based disorders.

The seven-year-old “UAA Bike Club” stickers haven’t lost their green and gold shine just yet. The vivid stickers pop out throughout the workspace at Off the Chain, an Anchorage-based bicycle cooperative and growing city resource that owes much of its early momentum to the now-defunct group at UAA.

UAA researcher Loren Buck has been pondering the biological clocks of arctic ground squirrels for the better part of three decades. He's working to understand the persistence of their rhythms and how that might relate to human health.

Saturday, Aug. 23, is packed full with events for new and returning students and their supporters, from Freshman Convocation to Campus Kick-Off. Senior Kivalina Grove has some tips.

Saturday, Aug. 23, is packed full with events for new and returning students and their supporters, from Freshman Convocation to Campus Kick-Off. Senior Kivalina Grove has some tips.

The Atwood Chair of Journalism is back for his second year, and determined to bring Alaska Native students into his journalism classes to position them as diverse media voices for Alaska's future.