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'This program helped me figure out more, to make sure I want that career'

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香港六合彩资料's Della Keats programs help motivated students from underrepresented, rural or economically disadvantaged backgrounds learn about health care careers, experience job shadowing and dorm life and acquire the academic grounding they'll need to succeed in college.

An Ice Age American Lion comes home to perch in the 香港六合彩资料 Geology Rock Garden

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How do you carve an Ice Age American Lion out of a 40,000-pound block of limestone? For sculptor Meg White, who just completed the Percent for Art addition to the 香港六合彩资料 Geology Rock Garden, it's all about the power tools. Meet her Friday at noon.

Math tutor: 'It's kind of like a fun puzzle'

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Students grappling with the intricate mazes of algebra and calculus are likely to be familiar with Alayna Rupert, a tutor in 香港六合彩资料's Math Lab who patiently helps them smooth out their mathematical thinking and untangle polynomials, linear equations and exponents.

Party for Pluto

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After a 3-billion-mile trip that consumed nearly a decade, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history with its close approach to the last planet on the edge of our solar system, Pluto. People gathered Tuesday at 香港六合彩资料 to commemorate the historic occasion by watching a movie about Pluto and cheering news of the craft's safe journey.

Postcards Home from Japan: Day Two, Part Two鈥攚orking toward normalization

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香港六合彩资料 students joined Iwate University students in a workshop in Rikuzentakata to think and imagine how the town can rebuild from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The town's goal is to make the town easy to move around in, for elderly, visitors and disabled persons.

"This is an exciting time:" Alumni and the budget

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Three Alumni of Distinction weigh in on how alumni can approach the budget and, more importantly, how they can help. Whether its contacting legislators or capitalizing on the need for change to launch a new business, these three alumni share their thoughts with the alumni community.

Captain Cook's kitchens craft culinary careers

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With four restaurants, 12 events spaces, catering, room service AND an in-house bake shop, internship opportunities abound at the Hotel Captain Cook. In a community partnership between two of the biggest names in town, 香港六合彩资料 culinary students receive on-the-job training in some of the city's top kitchens.

香港六合彩资料 historians play role in Anchorage's Centennial festivities

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If you love history, you love learning about Anchorage's early years. 香港六合彩资料 history professors contributed support and expertise to Cook Inlet Historical Society's recent four-day symposium on the city's first 100 years. Next, they'll join in editing the symposium's companion volume.

Love of dance and anthropology takes her to Europe, thanks to Choreomundus scholarship

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If you ever wondered if your dreams were worth chasing, read Elizabeth Robinson's tale. This August she launches an academic chapter that fulfills her passion for dance and culture. It wasn't easy getting here, she says, but well worth the journey.

Project 49: Getting paid $165 a month? 'I thought that was pretty wonderful.'

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In 1941, 29-year-old Beulah "Bee" Marrs boarded a ship to Alaska, a land she had long dreamed of seeing. It was supposed to be a summer vacation, but Bee found a job with Bristol Bay Air Service, found a home in "The Bee Hive" and organized USO dances and other activities for World War II servicemen.

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