It’s with great pleasure that Paige Krichbaum accepted the Director of Dining Services and Sustainability position. Her goal is to make the “Dining Services Department” a destination. A place to gather, a place to share experiences, a place to settle the soul. Paige comes from a baking and pastry background, and her favorite thing about…
Your new Dining Director
Photobook: 2019 Expedition Alaska
For the seventh year, the Expedition Alaska took students into some of the most remote land in the nation’s most remote state for their first college course. Over two weeks, students either rafted or canoed from Eagle to Circle, Alaska on the Yukon River, as part of either a science course or an outdoor studies…
Meet Shannon O’Laughlin, Farm School Coordinator
What’s your academic background? BA in Liberal Studies, Multiple Subject Teaching Credential, and Preliminary Administrative Services Credential all from California State University Chico. Additionally, I got a Waldorf Teacher Education Diploma from Rudolf Steiner College. Who inspires you? My folks. They’ve worked incredibly hard and have made a great life for themselves. It has not…
Farrah Greene-Palmer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
What’s your academic background? I have a BA in Psychology and Writing Seminars from the Johns Hopkins University, and an MA and PhD from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in Clinical Psychology Who inspires you? People doing everyday kindnesses for each other What was the best concert you ever attended? Lilith Fair-so many great…
It Takes a Community to Save a Language
Unangam Tunuu: language of the Aleut people, a people that have occupied Alaska for well over 10,000 years. With changes in populations there are less than about 90 fluent speakers of the traditional language out of the more than 6,000 Aleut in Alaska. Today, the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association (APIA) puts on a culture camp…
Meet Rani Malone, APU’s SES Coordinator
What’s your academic background? I have an Associates in Business Administration and Computer Technology and currently working on my Bachelor’s in Counseling Psychology. Who inspires you? My Daughter. What was the best concert you ever attended? My daughter’s last choir concert of middle school…she had a beautiful solo 😊. Where’s your favorite place in the…
Meet Joe Sarcone – Assistant Professor, Environmental Public Health Program Director
What’s your academic background? Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH), University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Bachelor of Science, Environmental Resource Management, Pennsylvania State University. Who inspires you? Roberto Clemente What was the best concert you ever attended? Jimmy Cliff on Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 1993 or…
Meet Lydia Johnson
What’s your academic background? I went to Cosmetology school at Metroasis in 1997, later I went to UAA for two years with a focus on Russian language and culture. Who inspires you? My husband helps me be the best version of myself and encourages all my artistic endeavours so I’m going to have to be…
Photobook: 2019 Spring Commencement
On Saturday, April 27 at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium, APU celebrated the culmination of endless hours of hard work with the 2019 Spring graduates. The “Wendy” was alive with excitement, optimism and the acknowledgment that a new chapter was about to begin for many of the graduates. We are proud of this year’s graduates and…
Meet Ben Swimm, APU’s New Kellogg Farm Manager
What’s your academic background? I have an academic background in biology and creative writing. As an undergrad, I studied ecology at Williams College and wrote my thesis about mutualisms between invasive species in the Northeast United States. Biology and Environmental Studies is what got me interested in farming and education, and along the way I…
