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UAA summer engineering academies are underway again this year, offering Anchorage youths week-long fun ways to sample different varieties of sciences via robotics, coding, alternative energy, wing aerodynamics and structures.

In honor of recent Father's Day, look back on the good times you shared with Dad—like, perhaps, completing a lab report. After inadvertently registering for the same biology class, father-daughter pair Mike and Mindy Graham ended up as lab partners. “I think a lot of people were puzzled by the way we interacted with each other," Mindy laughed.

After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese town of Rikuzentakata is focusing on rebuilding their community to be easily accessible to elderly, visitors and disabled persons. UAA students worked with residents and Japanese students from Iwate University.

High school science teacher Debbra Brewer won a "Partners in Science" grant from the Murdock Charitable Trust. She's spent the summer doing research at UAA.

Dr. Cindy Trussell grew up in New Hampshire but architecture, Australia, bird songs and biology brought her to Alaska's famed Emerald Isle to convey her love of biology, chemistry and nutrition to students at Kodiak College.

UAA journalism student Wesley Early tells it like it is in China, from lazy pandas to too few showers to the first soft pillow in days.

Global supply chain students have an employment pipeline in Anchorage thanks to the strong intern relationship between UAA and ConocoPhillips Alaska. The oil company operates in 23 countries around the globe, and as part of the global supply chain, employees get the chance to move around quite a bit, too.

Traditional finance theory: People always make rational decisions when it comes to money. Not, says UAA finance professor John Nofsinger. He's made an academic and professional writing career helping humans keep their emotions out of their finances.

Take 11 Alaskans, pack them into a big white van for 10 days, drive 1,600 miles across three states and you have the basic recipe for GEOL 382, a biennial summer field trip to the American Southwest and its diverse, accessible and amazing roadside geology.

We all remember the incredible earthquake and tsunami that struck eastern Japan in 2011. This past May, 10 UAA geography students and two professors spent a week there to learn how the Japanese prepare and prevail through such a devastating upheaval.