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Taking a leap of faith from courthouse to hospital

 |  Matt Jardin  | 

How do you follow up four years of studying justice and history? If you’re anything like Tyler Morris, you go back to pursue nursing science.

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Dr. Troy Payne Examines Place Management in Neighborhood Context

 |  Melissa Green  | 

Dr. Troy Payne co-authored an article, titled "Place management in neighborhood context: An analysis of crime at apartments in Cincinnati," that was published in Security Journal.

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Totem Rising: The making of a doctor and a life full of meaning

 |  UW Medicine  | 

Stephen Ellison is only 31 years old, but you could say his story begins thousands of years ago among a handful of Alaska Native villages on Prince of Wales Island, located halfway between Seattle and Anchorage. It wasn’t until the birth of his daughter, Bella, in Juneau, that he really began to pay attention to what doctors do. A year later, he called up family physician Taylor Dunn, M.D. ’99, the doctor who delivered Bella, to ask if he could shadow him.

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Alumna April Stone: Up For Every Challenge

 |  Melissa Green  |  ,

We sat down to talk with Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ Justice Center alumna April Stone about what it’s like to be a nontraditional student pursuing a law career.

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Mental health literacy and first aid

 |  Alaska Public Media  |  ,

Listen to Jilly Ramsey, behavioral health training coordinator at the Center for Human Development, discuss the importance of Mental Health First Aid.