Catalina Myers, University of Alaska Anchorage
Predicting snow loads: How a UAA research team helping create safer structures
In Alaska during the late 1970s, there was a major effort to predict snow loads across the state which would help civil and structural...
A career in community service: School of Social Work professor Tracey Burke tackles food...
In Alaska, 102,670 residents, or 1 in 7 people, struggle with hunger. Of the 102,670, about 20 percent of those struggling to obtain a...
How UAA’s Justice Information Center is using data to help policymakers
In 2010, Alaska’s lawmakers were working to overhaul the state’s criminal justice reform system. At the time, former Governor Sean Parnell was launching his...
Hooking it up: UAA professors connect new teachers with classroom libraries
For new teachers, there are many challenges during their first year in the classroom. But before the first day of school bell even rings,...
From associate to bachelor’s: How UAA’s School of Nursing is answering Kodiak’s health care...
In 1977, Margie Mete was a young nurse who had recently graduated with her nursing diploma. Like many young nurses of her time, she...
With an impending nursing shortage, UAA’s School of Nursing steps up to the plate
In the United States, health care is one of the fastest growing job sectors in the country. According to the U.S. Department of Labor...
