Are you a beginner, intermediate, or advanced paddler? This is a great opportunity for you to learn skills for sea kayaking, whitewater kayaking, packrafting, canoeing, stand up paddleboarding, or whatever boat you like to float. Join Patrick Higgins, OP director and American Canoe Association certified instructor to learn skills of all levels. Meet: Moseley Pool…
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Rock Climbing Clinic
Basic climbing clinic teaching students basic climbing technique, knots, and belaying. If you already know these skills you are welcome to come in and boulder or learn new skills like how to build anchors and lead climb. When: Wednesdays Time: 10:00 am. Where: Atwood Rockwall Cost: Free to Staff and Students
Rock Climbing Clinic
Basic climbing clinic teaching students basic climbing technique, knots, and belaying. If you already know these skills you are welcome to come in and boulder or learn new skills like how to build anchors and lead climb. When: Wednesdays Time: 10:00 am. Where: Atwood Rockwall Cost: Free to Staff and Students
Anchorage City-Wide Career & Job Fair
The 2020 Anchorage City-Wide Career & Job Fair is happening Friday, February 21, 2020 from 10-4 at the University Center. This fair is free and open to the public! Doors open at 10:00 am and job seekers should come professionally dressed with copies of your resume to give to employers. During the fair you will…
APU Chess Fellowship National Chess Day
Alaska Pacific University club Chess Fellowship is partnering with the Last Frontier Chess Foundation (Nationally recognized state-governing body) to host a 2-day series of chess tournaments that are available for free to the public. These tournaments require United States Chess Federation membership to play. Chess materials to play will be provided, alongside refreshments. This event…
Making Better Decisions with Data: Myths and Truths
AI, Big Data, Machine Learning, Predictive Modeling – these are the buzzwords of the decade. The explosion of data and analysis tools portends to create a future where computers replace human decision making. This future looks horrific to some and equally promising to others. Amidst this uncertainty, hype abounds. In this talk, Dale Lehman will…
APU Alum Simon Frez-Albrecht Talks Guiding at 20,310 Feet
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…
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…
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….
