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Student Stories

Photo Book: Senior Project Week at APU

December 4, 2018

Senior Projects Fall 2018

Last week, APU seniors put their days, months, and years of hard work on exhibit for the entire community to see displaying their senior projects in Carr Gottstein and Grant Hall. Topics ranged from remote weather stations and nature activity backpacks to resiliency in Indigenous communities and social media’s influence on avalanche forecasting. Please enjoy…

Filed Under: Active Learning, Environmental Science, Environmental Science Department, Outdoor Studies, Outdoor Studies Department, Student Stories, We Are APU

Photo Club Spends Spring Break on the Beach … of Utqiagvik

March 22, 2017

Outdoor Studies student Aaron Woelkwalksalongthetundraonamid afternoondayinUtqiagvik.

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 locales…

Filed Under: APU Spotlight, Student Activities, Student Stories Tagged With: Alaska pacific university, APU, Barrow, Ian McDermod, North Slope, photo, photo club, photo essay, photography, Utqiagvik

Do you have what it takes to be the very best?

August 31, 2016

Pokemon Go Map

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…

Filed Under: Student Activities, Student Stories, We Are APU

One scholarship application, thousands of dollars

February 1, 2016

scholarship

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…

Filed Under: Active Learning, Admissions, Community, Student Stories

What Do You Do When You’re Not Skiing?

October 10, 2014

What Do You Do When You’re Not Skiing? Featured Image

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,…

Filed Under: Active Learning, Nordic Skiing, Student Stories

The New Face of Nature in the Last Frontier: Creating a Digital Resource Guide for Environmental Educators in Alaska

October 24, 2013

Enviro&ResourceEducation

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…

Filed Under: MSOEE, Student Stories, Sustainability Studies

Why Early Honors?

December 5, 2012

Anastasia Keogh

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,…

Filed Under: Early Honors, Student Stories

Octopus Release Statement

November 9, 2012

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…

Filed Under: Active Learning, Student Stories

Bantz welcomes Early Honors students: ‘Call me Don’

October 2, 2012

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…

Filed Under: Active Learning, Early Honors, Featured Item, Liberal Studies, Liberal Studies Department, Student Stories, Testimonials

LS major Bonnie Bagwell, ’12, heads to Disneyworld for internship

June 1, 2012

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…

Filed Under: Early Honors, Liberal Studies Department, Student Stories

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