While spring breakers throughout the U.S. headed south in search of warmer climes this month, APU’s Photo Club went north. Way north. For part of their break, eight students went to Utqiagvik (the city formerly known as Barrow) to work on their photography prowess. It’s not the first time the club has traveled to colder More
Student Stories
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 More
One scholarship application, thousands of dollars
APU students have received thousands each year from scholarships, thanks to the APU scholarship application. There are a variety of endowed and donor-funded scholarships available. Interested students or prospective students can simply fill out just one APU scholarship application in order to be considered for all of these scholarships! Applying for a scholarship at APU More
What Do You Do When You’re Not Skiing?
Written by Lynn E. Paulson, APU staff writer I could hear the high-pitched, happy ruckus before I even entered the East Anchorage High School gymnasium, where the event was already in full swing. Over 200 girls, wearing hot pink “Fast and Female” t-shirts, were shooting hoops, lifting weights, walking slack lines, kicking soccer balls, hoola-hooping, tumbling, More
The New Face of Nature in the Last Frontier: Creating a Digital Resource Guide for Environmental Educators in Alaska
Thesis project by APU Outdoor and Environmental Education graduate student Jennifer Stein The purpose of this project was to create a single, streamlined source of information for Alaskan educators seeking to provide most relevant and pertinent environmental and resource education for their students. It has taken more than 100 hours to complete this database, proving More
Why Early Honors?
by Anastasia Keogh Throughout my academic career I have always tried to enhance my education in some way. During my junior year I enrolled in two Advance Placement classes to help get the feel of college work. I took AP Language and Composition and AP European History. I didn’t expect these classes to be easy, More
Octopus Release Statement
My senior project provides a unique opportunity to keep a potential cryptic species of octopus in the aquarium lab, and to allow Calamity a chance to mature and breed in the wild, while maintaining professional standards of octopus care in the APU aquarium lab. Calamity is a female octopus which has called the aquarium lab More
Bantz welcomes Early Honors students: ‘Call me Don’
Advanced high schoolers enrolled in APU’s Early Honors program gained an up-close view of active learning when President Don Bantz strode into the classroom for a student-led interview and handed out his business card. The first slightly nervous question: How should high school seniors address the university president? “Call me Don,” he said. And they More
LS major Bonnie Bagwell, ’12, heads to Disneyworld for internship
Liberal Studies major Bonnie Bagwell has been selected for a Disneyworld photography internship following a national competition. Bagwell, 19, will join the Disneyworld College Program for summer and fall terms before returning to APU for graduation ceremonies in December. She pursued photography as an APU elective and is a former editor and columnist for the More
Survival rate of fecal coliforms in a glacial environment: Implications for human waste management on Mount McKinley, Alaska
In review at Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research Katie Goodwin, MSES, 2011 Short- and longterm effects of crevassing human waste in a glacial environment are poorly understood despite their implications for human health and water quality. Using field observations and lab experiments, this thesis investigated the microbiological fate of human feces deposited in a variety More
