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…
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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…
APU To Hold Alaska Native Feast Tray Carving Class
APU’s Elder Artists-in-Residence, Joe and Martha Senungetuk, will be holding a workshop focusing on Alaska Native feast trays in August and September. The course is a sequel to their mask making class from the previous May-term. Students will learn wood carving techniques as they design and shape their very own feast trays. Also, the class…
Meet Jessie Downes, APU’s New Director of Nursing Programs
Dr. Jessie Downes joins APU as the new Assistant Professor of Nursing and Director of the Nursing Programs. She is a registered nurse, and her graduate studies in nursing focused on healthcare systems leadership. Jessie brings clinical, management, and professional education/training experience in both public and Alaska Tribal health systems to our new programs. Most recently,…
Meet Katie Baraki, APU’s New Assistant Professor of Nursing
Katie Baraki, RN, MS is our new Visiting Assistant Professor of Nursing and Community Health. She previously worked as an assistant professor of nursing at the University of Utah, where she received fellowships and awards for excellence in teaching, nursing leadership, and transforming clinical instruction. Most recently, she served as a clinical nurse consultant at…
Environmental Ethics in Alaska
“Environmental ethics” may sound like a chance to eat chia seeds while wearing Birkenstocks, talking about your favorite tree (there certainly is a bit of hippy tree hugger in the soul of any environmental ethicists), but it is, in fact, an academic field of study that investigates the normative dimensions of environmental problems and problem-solving….
A Spontaneous Trip to the Aleutian Islands
At 10:30AM on Friday, March 9th, FAST lab grad student Ben Jevons got an urgent email from Melissa Good, a marine advisory agent of Sea Grant in Dutch Harbor. “A fisherman here has a tote full of octopus for you. I don’t have time to work them up. What would you like us to do?”…
Farmers Market Finds Niche in U-Med District
Though the skies above the Carr Gottstein Academic Center were an inky shade of gray, the tables on the grounds below were a feast of colors at the opening day of the APU Farmers Market. Megan Talley, of APU’s Spring Creek Farm, laid out bundles of ruby-toned rhubarb and emerald starter plants. Far North Fungi…
Leadership Class Teaches Partnership and Self-Awareness
Though the Leadership course, a required class for Master of Business Administration students, doesn’t have traditional tests, co-instructor Christopher Pavadore would argue that the students are constantly being tested. During the two-week class, APU students, as well as a handful of students from Danube University Krems in Austria, complete a series of activities that are designed to…
FAST Lab Students Focus on Function and Collaboration
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…
