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First-generation college student Ruddy Abam has carved an impressive track through UAA. With work on Judicial Board and Diversity Action Council, a semester interning in Juneau and an Honors thesis she presented in Seattle, she can now add Commencement speaker as one final accolade.

It’s 8:30 on a Monday morning. The professor poses a question and dozens of students, with the academic enthusiasm of Hermione Granger, shoot their hands in the air. It's early, but these students aren't under an energy charm or knowledge spell. They just love Harry Potter.

"Connecting Alaskans" by Heather Hudson captures the tenacity and creativity Alaskans demonstrated as they fought to get their frontier state connected to the world via phone, radio, television and satellite.

Emily Sobek used to nail together tree forts made of scrap wood scavenged from dumpsters. Next week, Sobek will graduate with a UAA bachelor’s degree in construction management, and begin building a career in Alaska's construction industry.

Fierce tides ripped through the mud figures at Pt. Woronzof, but artist Sarah Davies and UAA professor Rebecca Robinson found common ground in the healing power of 100Stone.

What drives December grad Nick Dighiera, proud earner of an M.F.A. in creative writing? The drive to write a story that sticks with you—weeks later.

You've seen them all over campus, dressed in tangerine vests, armed with tripods and satellite rovers, traipsing across the quad or along the bike trails. Learn more about the growing Geomatics Department, its clubhouse feel and the outdoorsy students that call it home.

Biologist Frank von Hippel tries to figure out how environmental contaminants affect humans, a field called ecotoxicology. But before he came to science, his first love was writing. How did science affect his writing?

Ah, the '80s. A time of neon skinny ties, keytar solos and the best team photos UAA has ever produced. Get ready for the 2015 GCI Great Alaska Shooutout and see where it all started with the basketball program's odd and excellent team photos from the 1980s.

His dorm room is ground control for his independent research. Geology student Ian Minnock studies NASA-provided data to determine the porosity of asteroids hurtling light years away and he even presented his self-motivated research in Baltimore earlier this month.