What does your role at APU entail? I see my role as helping to strengthen and manage the business side of the organization in support of APU’s mission. What did you do prior to APU? For the past three years, I was the Chief Financial Officer for a significant social services organization here in Anchorage….
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Mental Health Awareness Event Takes Center Stage
On November 1, Alaska Pacific University (APU) senior Rachel Fritz walked to the stage to welcome the attendees of Mental Health Awareness Day. Fritz aimed to change how Alaskans talk about mental health. “The organization of today’s event means a lot to me, honestly. It means that this campus [APU] is putting mental health first….
APU Alum Simon Frez-Albrecht Talks Guiding at 20,310 Feet
How long have you been a guide? How long of that has been on Denali? I started my guiding career in 2012 as a canoe guide in Connecticut on the small rivers there, but I didn’t start doing any climbing or mountain guiding until 2014. I started guiding on Denali in 2015, as an apprentice…
APU Senior Cristian Ortega Shines at the International Snow Science Workshop in Austria
When APU senior Cristian Ortega was preparing for his speech at the International Snow Science Workshop in Innsbruck, Austria, he was instructed by Professor Eeva Latosuo to practice so much that it comes from your spine. “I went into autopilot,” Ortega said. “I barely remember the questions people asked me about it later. I knew…
Meet James Temte, APU’s New Project Manager
What does your role at APU entail? I like to think of my role as the “Sweeper” in soccer. I fill in where is needed as well as work on special projects. One of the projects I will be working on is to establish a research center at APU that helps to provide opportunities for…
Photo Book: 2018 Indigenous Peoples Day
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…
Senior Project Connects Local Elementary School with the Outdoors
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…
A Lasting Impact in Liberia
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…
Photo Book: Expedition Alaska 2018
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…
Jim Mahaffey, Trail Blazer and Team Builder
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…
