�Ӱ�ԭ��

Did you know that the Alaska Small Business Development Center at �Ӱ�ԭ��A 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 �Ӱ�ԭ��A 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 �Ӱ�ԭ��S 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 �Ӱ�ԭ��F 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 �Ӱ�ԭ��F's College of Rural and Community Development this fall is made up of first generation college students?

January 29, 2021

Across the �Ӱ�ԭ�� 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.

Did you know that the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ drone program, also known as the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (AC�Ӱ�ԭ��SI), has just been selected to lead one of the Federal Aviation Administration’s eight new BEYOND program s

January 29, 2021

In 2018 the FAA picked �Ӱ�ԭ��F as one of ten programs out of 149 applications to help find ways to advance flight techniques and capabilities that will better serve the state’s diverse needs.

Did you know that �Ӱ�ԭ��S alum Robyn Capp is dedicating her teaching skills to helping students make an easier transition from the classroom to learning remotely?

January 28, 2021

Capp, who graduated from �Ӱ�ԭ��S with a Bachelor of Arts in Special Education in 2019 and was recognized as the program’s Outstanding Graduate, received a $5,000 COVID-19 grant from the National Education Association (NEA) Foundation to create flexible learning kits for the students in her classroom at Randy Smith Middle School in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.

Did you know that Ben Kellie (�Ӱ�ԭ��F '10) took a short path from helping his bush pilot father in Nikiski to launching SpaceX rockets in California?

January 28, 2021

Learn more about his amazing career as part of a deep dive into �Ӱ�ԭ��'s engineering programs and quality of the offerings through both the �Ӱ�ԭ��A and �Ӱ�ԭ��F programs in this video featured during the November Board of Regents meeting.