November 2014 Archive

Fifty-two feet of cable, a 240-pound hollow brass bob and 360 generous donors who made it all happen. The Foucault pendulum anchoring the UAA/APU Consortium Library's central staircase turns 10 this semester. Learn about the surprising physics behind the silently swaying centerpiece.

With jagged peaks, endless ice, razor-sharp winds and a temperature that rarely tips above freezing, Antarctica is a completely unforgiving land. It’s a place where things can easily go wrong, and often do. And that’s exactly why Mark Peterson headed south.

Alaska Native nursing students leave home to grapple with rigorous classes. UAA's RRANN program brings them in, enfolding them in a warm, supportive community that helps them succeed.

Undergraduates, graduate students, UAA professors and agency biologists take to the field for inquiry-based science. This teaching method aims at developing citizens who can think critically and find answers to complex and emerging environmental questions.

Kelsi Swenson, Hope Meyn and A'Lena Sorenson are three Millennials who care. Club officers for the UAA Sustainability Club, they've been working to ensure sustainability remains, well, sustainable on campus. And they're also having fun doing it.

Jason Hahn studied biological sciences while attending UAA back in the 1990s. Now, he works as program director for the Alaska Sudan Medical Project, drilling water wells and helping spur agricultural growth in a remote, forgotten area of South Sudan.