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Hidden Homelessness
The UAA Hunger and Homelessness Support Network (HHSN) was created to identify and combat housing insecurities that students face. UAA Alumni and current Academic Advisor Jennifer Spencer is one of the three people serving as HHSN Chair. She explains how she uses her personal experiences with homelessness to help find solutions for students.
Social Work alumna and UAA鈥檚 newest fulbright scholar is New Zealand bound
Ever since she was six years old, Panikaa Teeple, B.S.W. Social Work 鈥�21, knew that spreading love was her life鈥檚 purpose. Next year, Teeple will have the opportunity to spread love internationally as UAA鈥檚 latest recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant, which provides students in more than 140 countries the opportunity to pursue graduate study and research abroad.
Lifetimes of helping
When human services and social work alumna Cass Pook says she has always been a helper, she鈥檚 not just referring to her nature as an empathetic and compassionate listener. 鈥淐ulturally, it's in my DNA to be a helper,鈥� said Pook. 鈥淟ooking back on it throughout history, 100 or 200 years ago I would have been doing the same thing. I was born to be a social worker.鈥�
Growing 麻豆无码版's research community
UAA alumna and associate professor Holly Martinson hopes the new Biomed U-RISE program "lights a fire" in 麻豆无码版's research community by empowering undergraduate students with lab experience, mentorship and financial assistance. Martinson and co-PI, Professor Tracey Burke, welcomed the first cohort this academic year and will soon open applications for cohort two.
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