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On the water, she’s a paddleboard entrepreneur. On the rink, she drops derby opponents to their kneepads. And in the classroom, Marvat Obeidi is a role model for her multilingual students—like them, she grew up in Anchorage between two cultures, two languages and the culture shock of being a first-generation Alaskan.

She moved from a bucolic suburb of Nairobi 12 years ago to study nursing at UAA and emerged four years later with a hard-won bachelor's degree. Now she's a registered nurse at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Meet Rahab Kiruku.

Who's lucky enough to make it out of boot camp with a pan of freshly-baked cinnamon rolls? The kids in UAA's Culinary and Bakery Boot Camps. Smell what's cookin' at the Cuddy this summer.

Marva Watson's team is educating the UAA community about Title IX's sensitive issues, to keep campus a safe place to live, work and study.

UAA alumnus Brandon Wood ran his first Crow Pass Crossing last year. He talks here about his three-year path to that torturous race.

Ghulam Bham, a civil engineering professor, is leading a team of mechanical and electrical engineers to develop a driving simulator out of a 1996 Ford sedan.

Year one of medical school? Been there, done that! Meet two Alaska Native WWAMI students spending their summer with top researchers at UAA before starting year two in Seattle.

Hugh Denny often grapples with the dilemma of deciding when or whether to replace vital equipment at the Alaska Native Medical Center, where he works as chief facilities engineer. The UAA ESPM graduate student recently devised an algorithm to simplify that task and, in the process, won an award.

At 10 p.m. on a Friday, veteran police officers Paul Honeman and Guy Dodge, with nearly 60 years of combined law enforcement experience, are scanning University Police Department (UPD) radios with one ear and with the other, fielding questions about campus safety.

Award-winning nurse Leda Garside brings her mobile medical clinic rolling through the valleys and vineyards of Oregon's wine country, seeking to provide much-needed health care and support to the state's migrant workers.