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?”…
Alaska
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…
Veteran Actress Takes the Helm for Spring Production
Sitting in one of the rows of seats in the Earl R. Brown auditorium, Aponi Johnson has a lot on her mind. For months, a team of 15 or so actors and crew members have been working on the play of her choosing: The Mysterious Affair at the Styles. With just a week until opening…
Inside ‘Confluence Radio’: How one student explores nature through podcasting
Thirty minutes before his interviewee arrives, Dave Schmidt is in the studio. He’s running through his checklist: adjust the mic stands, plug in both sets of headphones, open the recording software, run through the recording setup. Then he’ll do the standard “check, check” on both microphones while adjusting the gain on each channel to make…
