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Congratulations to Dr. Britteny Howell, winner of this year’s Selkregg Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Britteny Howell, Division of Population Health Sciences, on winning this year’s Selkregg Community Engagement & Service Learning Award for her project, “Improv to Improve: An Improvisational Communications Training Program for Dementia Caregivers in Anchorage,” with community partners, the Alzheimer’s Resource of Alaska and Last Frontier of Comedy.

UAA Copy & Print Center is still available to support you! Interim operations under COVID-19

Copy & Print Center staff are remotely monitoring all email, phone calls and our digital storefront. Our production team is available to work on-campus and are scheduled as jobs are received. Please note that we are not available for any walk-in customers. The proofing process will be available on an appointment-only basis, and completed jobs will either be delivered by the Mailroom team or can be picked up by customers also on an appointment-only basis.

New scholarship alert!

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Beginning Fall 2020, the UAA Department of Music is offering five scholarships to first-year students who intend to declare music as a major. Each 'Excellence in Music' scholarship is worth $2,000. (To provide perspective on the impact of the award, each scholarship will cover about 30% of a typical full-time, first-year student's tuition.)

Great house for sale in the U-MED District!

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Four bedroom home located on the trail behind University Lake is for sale! This house has a two-car garage, fenced yard, hot tub, and new shed!

Latest issue of the 'The Parking Spot' newsletter now online

The Parking Spot is a monthly newsletter from Parking Services that provides news and information regarding events, prices, lot closures and more. Read the May 2020 issue today!

UAA announces new Kodiak College director

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As noted in my email last week, I’m writing to announce that Ms. Jacelyn Keys will join UAA as the director of Kodiak College. Jacelyn has more than 20 years of experience in higher education and has focused on creating a dynamic, vibrant, inclusive, students-first learning environment. She currently serves as the Hermiston Center director at Blue Mountain Community College in Oregon.

Job opening: Contracting Officer

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UAA Facilities Planning and Construction (FP&C) is recruiting for a highly motivated, detail-oriented Contracting Officer who is ready to take on multifaceted and exciting work.

COVID-19 Coping Sessions — free telehealth support from UAA Psychological Services Center

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In addition to its usual counseling services, the UAA Psychological Services Center is offering free telehealth COVID-19 Coping Sessions for people struggling with sadness, loneliness, anxiety, trouble sleeping, lack of motivation or other behavioral health issues while dealing with these trying times. The COVID-19 Coping Session is a free single, one-hour session with a mental health clinician that will be conducted via Zoom or phone.

In response to Audit Committee direction, UA leadership to develop budget options

This week the Audit Committee of the Board of Regents will meet to discuss important budget matters and identify meaningful ways to meet the budget shortfall caused by a number of factors, most notably state funding cuts, enrollment decline and the fiscal impact of COVID-19.

Call for volunteers to create face masks

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The UAA Office of Emergency Management would like to thank the many people who volunteered to make cloth face masks for our essential employees and resident students still on campus to pick up from the Student Health and Counseling Center. Inventory is now very low and, over the coming weeks, it is anticipated that the need will remain as some people and projects are approved for work on campus.
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