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On May 4, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ will award honorary doctorates to Dr. Alex Hills, a telecommunications pioneer, and William and Karen Workman, noted anthropologists and archaeologists in Alaska. Marie Meade will also be honored with a Meritorious Service Award.

Even though the school year comes to an end at commencement, there's still time to squeeze in one last history lesson. Learn about the medieval traditions that have defined commencement since the Middle Ages and hear advice from graduates who've been there.

Kenya is 8,290 miles away from Alaska, yet it still sustains and drives the record-shattering runner named last week as Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ's Bill MacKay Athlete of the Year. Meet Micah Chelimo.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ professor of entrepreneurship Al Hermann was proud to introduce the brains behind the first Alaska Accelerator Fund start-up investment, Brian McKinnon of Mackinnon Marine, at a press conference with the mayor.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ's new bike-share program still needs a part-time volunteer student manager, but 50 taxi-yellow cruisers will be available for check out from the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ/APU Consortium Library circulation desk once local trails clear up. All you'll need is a Wolfcard and a helmet.

Katie found her passion on campus in an elective American Sign Language class. She fell in love with the university's Deaf community and served as president of ASL Club her senior year. For her achievements, Katie will earn Leadership Honors at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ's commencement ceremony next week.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the dancers, choreographers and technical gurus who are making the latest Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ Mainstage Theater production, New Dances 2014, a success.

Every year Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ engineering students fly from Anchorage to Cameroon, a tropical West Africa nation, to continue their ongoing projects at Rhema Grace Orphanage. The partnership, organized by Engineers Without Borders, is five years strong and counting.

Architectural Drafting students were tasked this semester with developing building-design concepts for Chignik Lagoon Native Corporation. The corporation sought help from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ students to design a multi-use facility and airplane hangar, which they eventually plan to build on the Alaska Peninsula.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ senior Ellen Dore has a work ethic to be admired. The University Honors College student paid her way through college and decided to become a doctor after working as a medical scribe in a local hospital emergency room. Next up? Medical school. She's certainly one to watch.