Anchorage author, Martha Amore, has been chosen as APU’s Spring 2014 Writer-in-Residence. Established in 2012, this honor goes annually to an Alaskan who has excelled in the field of creative…
Archives for 2013
APU in Print: Farm School children savor locally grown foods
APU staffers Chris Pavadore and Megan Rock teach schoolchildren the joys of making – and eating – locally grown foods. Pavadore, dining services sustainability director, and Rock, coordinator at Louise’s…
APU on the Air: KTVA visits Louise’s Farm School
Anchorage-based KTVA Channel 11 highlights the University’s outdoors-based education in a segment about Louise’s Farm School. Aired Oct. 29 and reported by KTVA’s Lauren Maxwell, the news story takes viewers…
Flesh Eating Zombies Take Over Moseley Sports Center in Zombie Tag
What do you get when you place college students turned zombies in a school gymnasium with a mission to run… Zombie Tag of course! This past week APU students mixed…
The New Face of Nature in the Last Frontier: Creating a Digital Resource Guide for Environmental Educators in Alaska
Thesis project by APU Outdoor and Environmental Education graduate student Jennifer Stein The purpose of this project was to create a single, streamlined source of information for Alaskan educators seeking…
University Joins Lawmakers in a First-of-its Kind Summit to Improve Status of Alaska Women
Alaska Pacific University is the site Oct. 17-18 for the Alaskan Women’s Summit, an inaugural gathering of business leaders, policymakers, lawmakers and members of the public seeking ways to enhance…
APU on the Web: Candela explains icefield study for LinkTV viewers
Glacier science undertaken by double-major Sal Candela is showcased in a short film that takes viewers to one of the world’s largest non-polar masses of snow and ice. Candela, ’15,…
University teams with tribe-based council to gather watershed data
Efforts to gain knowledge about the Kuskowkim River watershed is the object of a canoe trip that will take team leader Martin Leonard, ’02, from the foothills of Mount McKinley…
Bantz: Expedition Alaska is ‘transformative’
Among faculty traveling the Yukon River with APU’s Expedition Alaska course was University President Don Bantz. He’s back at his desk, giving thought to Expedition AK 2014, and sends along…
Hykes Steere is among anthologized writers in social research text
Writing by Liberal Studies Assistant Professor Victoria Hykes Steere is included in a new anthology of life stories by indigenous scholars whose work is earning a place social research. “Indigenous…