Liberal Studies
APU’s Spring 2014 Writer-in-Residence Announced
Anchorage author, Martha Amore, has been chosen as APU’s Spring 2014 Writer-in-Residence. Established in 2012, this honor goes annually to an Alaskan who has excelled in the field of creative writing. Martha achieved her Masters of Fine Arts in Fiction from UAA, and currently resides in Anchorage with her husband and three daughters. She has…
University Joins Lawmakers in a First-of-its Kind Summit to Improve Status of Alaska Women
Alaska Pacific University is the site Oct. 17-18 for the Alaskan Women’s Summit, an inaugural gathering of business leaders, policymakers, lawmakers and members of the public seeking ways to enhance the standard of living for women statewide. Presenting sponsor is BP Alaska. Summit keynote speaker Oct. 18 is U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). She addresses…
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…
Hykes Steere is among anthologized writers in social research text
Writing by Liberal Studies Assistant Professor Victoria Hykes Steere is included in a new anthology of life stories by indigenous scholars whose work is earning a place social research. “Indigenous Pathways into Social Research: Voices of a New Generation” offers insight into challenges confronting the authors and the strategies they’ve used to overcome. Hykes Steere…
New Course Offering on “St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans” for Fall 2013
Considered among the most influential texts in the New Testament, St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans is the topic of a University course offered Aug. 27-Sept. 19 by Jerusalem-based scholar Gregory T. Tatum, O.P. Holder of a doctorate in New Testament and Christian Origins from Duke University, Tatum is a professor since 2006 at the…
Victoria Hykes Steere, lawyer and APU assistant professor, wins award for advancing Native environmental justice
Liberal Studies Assistant Professor Victoria Hykes Steere has won the 2013 Caleb Pungowiyi Award presented by the Alaska Conservation Foundation. In an announcement Aug. 2, the Anchorage-based nonprofit cited Hykes Steere for a career dedicated to advancing Alaska Native people. “Her influence is far-reaching,” ACF said. “She clearly follows the wisdom of her grandmother, Martha,…
Chosen: Mei Mei Evans’ first novel attracts notice for social justice theme
When one of the nation’s worst oil spills contaminated Alaska shores, APU’s Mei Mei Evans did more than watch in sadness. She wrote. And wrote. The result is “Oil in Water,” a first novel gaining national attention. One of the first things Mei Mei Evans wants you to know is that Alaska is home. Born…
Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Tlingit poet and Alaska State Writer Laureate, is APU commencement speaker on April 27
Internationally ranked scholar and writer Nora Marks Dauenhauer returns to her alma mater April 27 as commencement speaker at Alaska Pacific University graduation exercises. It is Dauenhauer’s first speaking engagement at APU since she graduated in 1976 with a bachelor of arts in anthropology from Alaska Methodist University, precursor to APU. “I’m honored to return…
State wrestling win goes to Early Honors student; Faller is voted assistant coach of the year
Early Honors student Frankie Dunbar claimed third place at the Alaska State Wrestling Championship, while coaches statewide voted APU Philosophy Professor Mark Faller assistant wrestling coach of the year. Faller was part of a team that led South Anchorage High to its first Alaska state wrestling title in competition held Feb. 2 in Anchorage. “This…
Stoeger: ‘Science, philosophy and theology take us beyond what we already know’
The Rev. Bill Stoeger, S.J., Ph.D., speaks Monday, Feb. 11, at an APU public lecture focusing on the fit between God’s creation and the Big Bang theory of the universe. An astrophysicist on staff with the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., Stoeger says that science, philosophy and theology have more in common than many people…
