October 10th marked APU’s 6th annual Indigenous Peoples Day celebration. This was APU’s first in-person Indigenous Peoples Day celebration since 2019. This year we welcomed performances by the Alaska Native…
Photos From the Indigenous Peoples Day 2022 Celebration
Photos From APU Homecoming 2022
September 22nd to the 25th, Alaska Pacific University celebrated its first Homecoming in 12 years. Homecoming at Alaska Pacific University unites the past with the present with a weekend of…
Downtown Potlatch kicks off series on Indigenous food sovereignty
This August, a city-wide Potlatch in downtown Anchorage kicked off a series of Indigenous food sovereignty events hosted in part by Alaska Pacific University. The events were largely coordinated by…
Photos: Expedition Alaska 2022
This year’s Expedition Alaska crew took off from Anchorage at the end of August, driving 10 hours to Eagle, Alaska to start their trip. First-year students enrolled in Natural History…
Crystal Worl: The artist behind the G Street mural
By Laura Ditto Part 3 in a series on APU’s involvement Indigenizing the G Street mural. A new public art installation painted by the Seattle Mural Art company was just…
LEO Network: Tracking environmental anomalies worldwide
This July was full of environmental anomalies. An Arctic shark turned up in Belize while a lost walrus flopped ashore in Finland. Lightning lit up the sky over Nunavut and…
Alumni connection revamps Grant Hall gardens
Grant Hall’s front yard is getting a facelift thanks to an APU alum and a team of student landscapers. 2018 APU graduate Kelly Ballantyne is the farm and food industries…
Creating connection and vitality in Anchorage through art
By Laura Ditto Part 2 in a series on APU’s involvement Indigenizing the G Street mural. With the new mural coming to 645 G Street, I reached out to one…
New public art project sparks discussion of history, land, and community
By Laura Ditto Part 1 in a series on APU’s involvement Indigenizing the G Street mural. In late February, a new mural project was introduced to the public in an…
“The value of this connection is unexplainable:” EPH students visit Napaskiak
In March, four environmental public health students from Alaska Pacific University (APU) traveled to the Native Village of Napaskiak in southwest Alaska, a traditional Yup’ik community just up the Kuskokwim…