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Meet Libby Roderick, associate director of CAFE. Find out how this lifelong Alaskan and activist is sowing the seeds for a better tomorrow.

Alaska Airlines honors Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ and UAF by painting two of its Bombardier Q400s for the Seawolves and Nanooks. The colorful planes will arrive in Alaska's skies in March 2014 and will fly between Anchorage and Fairbanks and Anchorage and Kodiak.

Jim Murphy, a Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ economics professor and Rasmuson Chair, and Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, also a Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ Rasmuson Chair, recently used a game to bring economics to life for Steller Secondary students.

Steve is a fresh, new face for Seawolf Hockey this year as director of hockey operations. And shhhhhhhhh…we stole him from our Northern rivals, where he spent his college career as a Nanook goalie and psychology student.

Nontraditional students can get help with tuition, thanks to a Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ professor emerita's new scholarship option.

Want to get off the couch and out onto the running trails? Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ's Student Health and Counseling Center debuted a Couch-to-5K program for students this fall and it will be back in the spring.

Answering a call for highly skilled leaders from the major players in Alaska’s economy, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ is developing a focused program of study in leadership for M.B.A. students. Two new faculty members are helping to roll it out this year.

Anthropology student Kyle Demientieff-Worl beams when he talks about his passions: Alaska Native languages and culture. Read more about this young leader, who was honored with the Roger Lang Youth Leadership Award at the 2013 AFN Conference.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Rasmuson Chair of Economics at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ, and last week all four chairs, past and current, gathered in Anchorage to celebrate and reflect on the accomplishments of the past decade.

Aviation maintenance student Jeff Requist recently returned to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ after completing his second co-op education tour with NASA's prestigious Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB in California.