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Ten master’s students and five outstanding undergraduates, the 2014-2015 UAA Leadership Fellows, will be matched with community business and industry leaders for this year-long, one-to-one mentorship program.

On May 4, UAA will award honorary doctorates to Dr. Alex Hills, a telecommunications pioneer, and William and Karen Workman, noted anthropologists and archaeologists in Alaska. Marie Meade will also be honored with a Meritorious Service Award.

Even though the school year comes to an end at commencement, there's still time to squeeze in one last history lesson. Learn about the medieval traditions that have defined commencement since the Middle Ages and hear advice from graduates who've been there.

Kenya is 8,290 miles away from Alaska, yet it still sustains and drives the record-shattering runner named last week as UAA's Bill MacKay Athlete of the Year. Meet Micah Chelimo.

UAA professor of entrepreneurship Al Hermann was proud to introduce the brains behind the first Alaska Accelerator Fund start-up investment, Brian McKinnon of Mackinnon Marine, at a press conference with the mayor.

UAA's new bike-share program still needs a part-time volunteer student manager, but 50 taxi-yellow cruisers will be available for check out from the UAA/APU Consortium Library circulation desk once local trails clear up. All you'll need is a Wolfcard and a helmet.

Katie found her passion on campus in an elective American Sign Language class. She fell in love with the university's Deaf community and served as president of ASL Club her senior year. For her achievements, Katie will earn Leadership Honors at UAA's commencement ceremony next week.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the dancers, choreographers and technical gurus who are making the latest UAA Mainstage Theater production, New Dances 2014, a success.

Every year UAA engineering students fly from Anchorage to Cameroon, a tropical West Africa nation, to continue their ongoing projects at Rhema Grace Orphanage. The partnership, organized by Engineers Without Borders, is five years strong and counting.

Architectural Drafting students were tasked this semester with developing building-design concepts for Chignik Lagoon Native Corporation. The corporation sought help from UAA students to design a multi-use facility and airplane hangar, which they eventually plan to build on the Alaska Peninsula.