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Charting a more efficient medical education

Primera Donation to WWAMI Program

Medical students traditionally spent countless hours listening to lectures about biochemistry, anatomy and other subjects before becoming doctors. An Alaska WWAMI committee crafted a curriculum that will move students out of lectures and into team situations to hone critical-thinking skills.

The lizards, chickens and shelter dogs of Lemonade Day Alaska

Lemonade Day

A lemonade stand named for a pet lizard, a flock of charitable "Lemonade Chickens" and yellow tutu-wearing dancers with a shelter dog. Saturday was a day for creative entrepreneurs: Lemonade Day Alaska.

Theresa Cho: Undergraduate advice from a senior

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With experience comes wisdom and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ senior Theresa Cho has some to share. Lesson 1: "Allow yourself to be pushed. It's how you grow confidence." A first-generation college student, Theresa has just a few remaining classes and medical school is on the horizon.

Project 49: Muddy Acres Homemakers’ Club

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“One dark, rainy day in September, 1952, a group of eight women met to form a new Homemakers’ Club. Upon looking out the window at the area surrounding them, they all agreed that ‘Muddy Acres’ would be an appropriate name for the club, and it has stuck to this day." Meet Alaska's take on June Cleaver.

Helping kids build bridges to engineering

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Engineering opens a world of opportunities that include bridge building, 3D mapping of buildings, robotics, renewable energy and more. Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ's Summer Engineering Academies offer middle- and high-school kids possibilities that could ignite their interest in math and science and lead to an engineering career.

Theatre on the Last Frontier

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Valdez, Alaska will have a bit of a population spike this week as actors, writers and everyone’s favorite telegraph operator from 'Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman' descend on the small coastal fishing town. It’s time for another round of the Last Frontier Theatre Conference.

Alumni Spotlight: Jan Newman

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She's done it all: flying planes, driving a forklift, raising alpacas, earning a bachelor's degree in physics and, at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ, a master's degree in education. Now she's founded Grow Palmer, an organization that creates gardens where anyone can clip off and eat broccoli, lettuce, cabbage and other healthy delectables. Meet Jan Newman.

Why women swoon over men who take risks

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Why do bad boys win the girls? It goes all the way back to our early hunter-gatherer selves, when males who took risks demonstrated their ability to survive. A soon-to-be published paper by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ social scientists connects our evolutionary and modern behavior.

Student Spotlight: Jack Runser

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Cerebral palsy and deafness complicate his life, yet he pushes back against those challenges to enjoy family and friends, camp, kayak and shock public perceptions about the concept of disability. Meet Jack Runser.

Liberal arts majors' secret job weapon: Learning to code

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Students in the experimental Learn 2 Code class heard about the strong demand for liberal arts majors with communication and coding skills—the Anchorage market is hungry for workers with these invaluable skills.

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