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Shawn Butler, assistant professor of computer science and computer systems engineering with the UAA College of Engineering, spent 20 years in the military and is using her knowledge to help protect waters in the Arctic.

A new study published by a team of UAA and UAF researchers in collaboration with Cook Inletkeeper sheds some light on the puzzling situation of chinook salmon decline in Alaska.

As bee populations decline worldwide, much about Alaska’s bees still remains unknown. Researchers at UAA’s Alaska Center for Conservation Science are partnering with the Bureau of Land Management to find out more about what bees exist in Alaska and what key roles they play in our unique ecosystem.

For over 10 years, UAA psychology Professor Patrick Dulin has worked to leverage technology as a confidential, inexpensive, always available tool to maintain sobriety through the Step Away project, first as an app and soon as a chatbot.

In the Natural Sciences Building in a windowless room lies a machine named the Multipole Plasma Trap, a stainless steel vacuum chamber designed by Nathaniel Hicks, Ph.D., an assistant professor in UAA’s Department of Physics, who established the university's Plasma Physics Laboratory.

As Alaskans we know how vital mobile devices are during a natural disaster. But what happens if our electricity is knocked out? Getu Hailu, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the UAA College of Engineering, has an answer: emergency backup batteries.

"Ask a UAA Expert" shares faculty expertise relevant to what we're experiencing with COVID-19. Recent video segments address cultural impacts of pandemics, COVID-19 risks to older adults, media coverage of the pandemic, health messaging and more.

Epidemiologic modeling with Alaska data provides support for new measures implemented by state and municipal leaders to "flatten the curve" and buy additional time for preparation.

Recent headlines have forced many Alaskans to think about the effects of coronavirus for the first time. But for a team of UAA researchers led by Associate Professor Eric Bortz, studying coronavirus has been all in a day’s work for more than 15 years.

In 2006, an undergraduate student in the Andes Mountains of Colombia made the astonishing discovery of 200 nearly perfectly fossilized comma shrimp. UAA Biological Sciences Professor Sarah Gerken, the United States’ resident expert in the field, has been working with him ever since to determine their mysterious death.