The river and lake system near the Alaska Native village of Nanwalek has long welcomed the red salmon that return en masse each summer. But with dwindling numbers of their preferred subsistence food, the village also welcomed some fresh fish to help develop a salmon monitoring program for the community: APU’s FAST Lab and Alaska…
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Year in Review
As Alaska Pacific University closes in on the end of the 2016-2017 academic year, let’s take a look back on the learning, adventuring, and growing the University and the members of it’s community experienced since last fall. Welcomed new students, faculty and staff APU welcomed 215 new to APU students, both undergrad and graduate this…
Photos: Spring 2017 Graduation
APU Student Becomes Alaska’s Only Certified Chess Coach
When it’s Jonathon Singler’s move, he sits back and surveys the chess board. He may imagine moving his knight two squares vertically and one square horizontally. He may consider moving his queen diagonally across the board. He may debate moving the rook back to better defend the king. But beyond that, he’s thinking of…
Class of 2016 Fall Graduation
Congratulations to all of our hard working graduates! Special thanks to our Registrar’s Office as well as all the staff volunteers who helped with graduation! Here are some of the photos taken at this beautiful event!
Do you have what it takes to be the very best?
By Diego Donna Do you have what it takes to be the very best? Did you choose the right starter? Pick the right team and know how to defend your gym? If you know what I am referencing then you are in touch with what has most of society glued to their phones in this…
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 to the 800-acre Kellogg campus in Palmer. KTVA is the local CBS affiliate. Farm School students are shown making devil’s club salve and walking through…
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 some Halloween spirit with physical fitness to create this hybrid game of tag using a Zombie theme. How do you play Zombie tag you ask?…
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 these thoughts: I’ve taught in several first-year college programs that I thought were excellent, but nothing even remotely resembling Expedition Alaska. The course sent APU…
APU Summit magazine now available online
APU Summit, the magazine of Alaska Pacific University, has launched with a summer issue celebrating the 20th anniversary of the University’s nationally recognized Outdoor Studies degree. In addition to news from around the University, Summit highlights include profiles of OS alumni, personal essays by OS faculty and adventure writing by OS students. “What I envisioned in…
