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In 2012, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ granted its first doctorates. The Joint Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ-UAF Clinical-Community Psychology Program has paved the way for new doctoral programs at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ. Next in line is a nursing doctorate. Find out more and meet current psychology Ph.D. student Xio Owens.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ alumni hit the links—as in all those sky bridges that "link" our campus buildings. Alumni ParTee: 9 in the Spine had alumni and student leaders joined on mini golf teams. The course was full of windmills, mulligans and steaming indoor volcanoes.

A small side project among freshmen friends at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ has grown over the past few years into a thriving business. Frontier Tutoring now hires a team of Seawolves as tutoring specialists, providing a boost for Anchorage's college-bound students. Founder Brian Franklin is Harvard-bound for his M.B.A. next year.

They've been toiling in labs, poring over spreadsheets and fine-tuning artistic and musical presentations. Now it's time for students to put their skills on display at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ Undergraduate Symposium, Student Showcase and Fine Arts recitals and exhibits.

Some knew the difference between a quarter note and a treble clef, others didn't. Some felt they belonged on stage, others felt terror at the prospect of belting out a tune in public. The 29 singers who earned places in the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ Glee Club found creative exhilaration and the embrace of a "Glee-fam."

Tim Jester spent eight months in Pakistan as part of a USAID project that involved meeting with educators and government officials to find ways to increase literacy, open educational access for girls and improve teacher training. He talks about his experiences in a volatile country he found "welcoming."

Building a Baja car has taught a team of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ engineering students how to design and build a vehicle that can withstand the stresses of hills, hairpin turns and four hours of laps on a race track—skills they can use after college when tackling real-world work tasks.

Missed the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ-Yale Debate over public funding for competitive athletics in public education? Catch a podcast of the event, including the one-minute public floor speeches, and a debrief by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ's debate coaches, Steve Johnson and Amie Stanley, all on the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ-Yale debate blog.

A new collection of short stories by David Stevenson, director of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ’s Department of Creative Writing and Literary Arts, is available from publisher Imaginary Mountain Surveyors. We caught up with Stevenson to ask a few questions about 'Letters from Chamonix.'

When she was just nine, Dao moved from a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand to the U.S. with her family. They've found opportunity and community in Anchorage. Dao is now a freshman at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ pursuing a career as a dental hygienist and is among the first generation in her family to earn a college degree.