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The second annual Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrated Monday, October 8 on APU’s campus, was both a time of celebration and action. During the two and a half hour event, various performers and speakers took the stage. Among them were Governor Bill Walker, Anchorage mayor Ethan Berkowitz and state health commissioner Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson. Enjoy our…
It’s just after noon, and the students in Dawn Wilcox’s second-grade class at Campbell STEM Elementary are excited. They’re about to go outside to play. Not for recess, but for science. Just minutes earlier, Macey Hoffman, a senior Outdoor Studies major at Alaska Pacific University, helped students assemble the toolkits they’ll use in their outdoor…
On a sweltering Liberian day, Alaska Pacific University alum Katy Lovegreen Bishoff received a long-awaited package. From a parcel with a return label marked “Anchorage, Alaska” she pulled out something she’d been anticipating since starting her two-year teaching commitment with the Peace Corps: the picture book, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” At the…
For the sixth 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 the course of two weeks, students either rafted or canoed from Eagle to Circle, Alaska on the Yukon River, as part of either a science course or…
For many Anchorage residents, the return of mustard-yellow school buses, dipping temperatures and the ebb of out-of-state guests signal that Alaska’s brief autumn is here. But for Anchorage runners, the real season opener happens the second Tuesday in September, when they gather to compete in the first of the Tuesday Night Races. This year marks…
The following is the transcript from our Fall Convocation Ceremony. Good morning and, on behalf of the faculty and staff of Alaska Pacific University, welcome to Convocation and the start of the new academic year! We have been working hard to prepare for today. And for the new students and their families, it might be…
And the APU adventure begins for the Class of 2022! This morning, new incoming students dyed the Atwood Fountain after our Convocation Ceremony, a tradition six years in the making.
APU’s Elder Artists-in-Residence, Joe and Martha Senungetuk, will be holding a workshop focusing on Alaska Native feast trays in August and September. The course is a sequel to their mask making class from the previous May-term. Students will learn wood carving techniques as they design and shape their very own feast trays. Also, the class…
Each summer, Alaska’s mature salmon turn on their internal homing devices and return to their origin waters to finish out their life journey. But as the number of reds returning to the waters near the Alaska Native village of Nanwalek continues to ebb, it’s also drawn the return of community collaborators: APU’s Fisheries, Aquatic Science,…
Dr. Dee Barker is joining APU as Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science. Dee has her graduate degrees in chemistry, with specializations in chemical education and biophysical chemistry, and her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and philosophy. She has extensive experience teaching and conducting research in higher education, including working as a faculty member at…
