Did you know that every semester University of Alaska Southeast accounting program students intern with companies and firms across the region to gain valuable career experience?

January 30, 2021

These internships allow students to understand the daily operations that are part of working in accounting and provide a resumé boost that results in fast hire after graduation.

Did you know the University of Alaska Southeast has a Center for Mine Training that partners with local mines to provide students experience in the field as they complete their program?

January 30, 2021

For the last nine years, the UAS Center for Mine Training has partnered with Hecla Greens Creek and Coeur Alaska to provide entry level training in Diesel Mechanics.

Did you know that UAF's nonprofit Nanook Innovation Corporation has helped to commercialize 40 faculty or student inventions since its founding in 2012?

January 30, 2021

One success is a technology developed by UAF to solve problems with sewage management but later pivoted to help mitigate growing problems presented by a family of contaminants called PFAS affecting groundwater and soil across the state and other areas of the country.

Did you know that the Alaska Small Business Development Center at UAA has assisted nearly 1,900 Alaska businesses and provided training for another 6,200 in 125 communities across the state in the last fiscal year?

January 30, 2021

Since July, SBDC-mentored businesses have raised $52 million in new capital -- an SBDC record.

Did you know that a University of Alaska Anchorage College of Health alum is now the president and CEO of Alaska Family Services, one of the leading social services organizations for Alaskan families in the Greater Anchorage area and Mat-Su region?

January 30, 2021

Desiré Shepler received her Master of Public Health from UAA in 2010 and has gone on to lead multiple innovative organizations that deliver essential social services to Alaskans -- more important than ever during the pandemic.

Did you know students in the University of Alaska Southeast's Construction Program help build homes for those in need as part of the program?

January 30, 2021

For the last five years, the UAS Construction Department has partnered with Juneau Housing Trust and the Juneau School District to design and construct five homes for low income families in the Juneau area.

Did you know that University of Alaska Fairbanks Veterinary Medicine students work with Santa's reindeers to maintain their health all year long?

January 30, 2021

The UAF vet program partners with Colorado State University to train homegrown veterinarians, many of whom remain in Alaska to open or join veterinary practices after they graduate.

Did you know that a world-renowned scholar on Sir Winston Churchill has taught for 38 years at the University of Alaska Anchorage in the Department of Political Science?

January 29, 2021

Professor James W. Muller has dedicated his career to the study of the former British prime minister, statesman, officer, and writer, publishing dozens of papers, editing books, and traveling the world to lecture on Churchill.

Did you know that 83 percent of the freshman class for UAF's College of Rural and Community Development this fall is made up of first generation college students?

January 29, 2021

Across the UA system, one third of the fall first year class was comprised of first generation college students.

Did you know that the University of Alaska Anchorage's program for training air traffic controllers [ATC] is nearly 50 years old?

January 29, 2021

The ATC program was started in 1971 at Anchorage Community College and has become one of the top air traffic control programs in the country graduating more than 700 students in the past two decades alone.