On Feb. 24, the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ VA Clinic was officially renamed the Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ VA Healthcare System, a collaborative effort that included both Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ senators and U.S Representative, as well as the invaluable contributions of Assistant Professor Vanessa Meade in UAA’s School of Social Work.
UAA Associate Professor of Environmental Health Micah Hahn is leading a research project around climate change, health, wildfire smoke and environmental justice in Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ that recently received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
One morning in 2005, psychology alumna Maggie Winston — then a 21-year-old hairdresser and mother of twin boys living in Kenai — woke up feeling cramps between her shoulder blades. Within an hour, she couldn’t walk.
How do you follow up a landmark policing career that not only culminated in becoming chief of police, but also occurred during a watershed period of accountability in law enforcement across the country? For justice alumnus Kenneth McCoy, you become the very first chief diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) officer for Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ’s largest employer.
Hannah’s two degrees from UAA’s Division of Population Health Sciences have been invaluable to her as a program coordinator at Â鶹ÎÞÂë°æ Native Tribal Health Consortium.
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