College of Health News

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Creating a more welcoming city through research

 |  Catalina Myers  | 

Since 2014, the Municipality of Anchorage’s (MOA) Welcoming Anchorage project has been building a network between local businesses, organizations and the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation to recognize the contributions immigrants and refugees make to our city through economic, cultural and social impacts.

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Research and Initiatives at the College: Fall 2020

 |  Henry Randolph  | 

Updates about research studies, projects and community partnerships across the College of Health.

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Justice Center Develops Data Tool Tracking Intimate Partner Violence

 |  Henry Randolph  | 

The UAA Justice Center has developed a new data tool to visualize data about intimate partner violence in Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ.

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Justice Center Publishes Pioneering Homicide Report

 |  Henry Randolph  | 

The UAA Justice Center has published a pioneering report on homicide in Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ, gathering and analyzing over 40 years of data.

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Faculty Fulbright winner will travel to Finland to research plastic alternatives

 |  Green & Gold  |  ,

UAA Associate Professor of Public Health Philippe Amstislavski was recently awarded a J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship. He will spend spring 2021 in Tampere, Finland, working with the biomaterials group at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Headed by colleague Lisa Wikstrom, the biomaterials group works to develop bio-based alternatives to plastic.