July 2022 Archive

A series of readings throughout the week by UAA MFA Creative Writing program faculty, students, and alumni, as well as guest authors Jason Mott, the 2021 National Book Award winner for fiction, and Heather Lende, Alaska State Writer Laureate.

Adina Allen participated in the Semester by the Bay program while on exchange to the University of Alaska-Anchorage. She delivered two professional presentations, submitted a research proposal, presented a field report in poster form, and wrote and recorded an educational segment for a local radio station.

We are showing our newest film, Birth of Planet Earth, alongside another fulldome film all about our planet, Dynamic Earth. Presenter, Omega Smith (UAA Planetarian and NASA Solar System Ambassador) will speak about how NASA is studying Earth in many different ways and what we have learned from these missions.

Greetings, colleagues! I am excited to join the Seawolf family and looking forward to our relocation to Anchorage from northern Idaho. Unfortunately, securing an unfurnished house with fenced back yard that allows pets with a lease start date of August 15-September 15 is proving a challenge.

As the summer continues and we enjoy spending time outdoors in Alaska, we want to remind everyone that UAA is a smoke and tobacco-free campus. UAA has been a smoke and tobacco-free campus since 2015, following a Board of Regents vote to institute this policy on all University of Alaska campuses.

Please visit the UAA 2022-2023 Catalog and explore programs, courses and policies! You may need to refresh your browser and clear cache to load the new version. Please let us know if you have any concerns by emailing uaa.publications@alaska.edu. Note that you will be able to generate a PDF copy of the catalog within the next two weeks.

I anticipate most of you have seen or heard that next Saturday, July 9, the Save America political action committee will be renting the Alaska Airlines Center to host a rally for several political candidates. Please note that UAA is not hosting the event.

UAA will be closed Monday, July 4, and Tuesday, July 5, in observance of the Independence Day holiday.