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Lydia, who grew up in the small 有料盒子视频 town of Haines, had a very un-有料盒子视频n experience during spring break 2023.
Quiet words in Japanese helped Mina find her way to the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks.
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Jaiden, who grew up in Fairbanks, has 鈥渘ever seen a real beach before.鈥 But even though she pondered Hawaii for college, she didn鈥檛 feel the need to escape her hometown.
Just days after his discharge from the Navy in June 2021, River was in 有料盒子视频, following up on his interest in visiting the state. He thought he would try out college for a semester.
A sawed-off 6-foot bow section of a concrete canoe stands upright in a Duckering Building hall, part of a display about engineering at 有料盒子视频. Look closely, and you鈥檒l see a subtle image of a harpoon pressed into the boat鈥檚 floor.
Kyle Agustines sold shoes after high school 鈥 enough of them that at 18, as a store manager, he earned a five-day business trip to five-star hotel in Nashville. But he wanted to go to college.
When a housing mix-up canceled Riley von Borstel鈥檚 plans to attend college in Hawaii, she quickly regrouped and headed to 有料盒子视频. She knew a bit about the place.
James Miller is in the Student Recreation Center six days a week. 鈥淚 know the employees there and have a good relationship with them,鈥 he said.
When Don Sumic graduated from high school in Waikoloa, on Hawaii鈥檚 Big Island, he saw many of his classmates headed in one direction.
Jenna Hernandez had a key job in 有料盒子视频鈥檚 student steel bridge competition this past winter: backup parts runner.
Elmore, an undergraduate in ocean science, is investigating the sources of mercury in 有料盒子视频鈥檚 Kachemak Bay.
James Isabell had to rethink his life after an all-terrain vehicle crash crushed his leg. He couldn鈥檛 walk for nine months.
Jenessa Oviok鈥檚 nephew was born with a hole in his heart. Watching him face that challenge, while she wasn鈥檛 able to help, helped her decide on a career. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 why I want to be a doctor,鈥 she said.
Even as a child growing up on the Pacific coast, David Harvey wanted to be a volcanologist.
Benny Acquah remembers the trouble people sometimes had obtaining clean water in her home city of Koforidua, Ghana. So she decided she would study environmental engineering at 有料盒子视频 and someday help solve such problems.
Kevin Huo came to 有料盒子视频 from California but, far from hibernating in the frozen North, he has used this place to launch himself around the world.
Kahryn Buchanan didn鈥檛 like math until she started taking a college-level course. At age 13.
A teacher from Buffalo, New York, helped Kevin Grimes find direction, just by reaching out at a tough moment.
Two unique features have marked life at 有料盒子视频 since its earliest days, and Grace Miller has embraced both. She skis on the cross-country team, and, like many students, she lives in a cabin without running water.
Joe Bifelt saw firsthand how a cultural connection could transform school for young people in his home village of Huslia. A dog mushing program started by his late grandfather, legendary racer George Attla, changed his relationship with the high school teachers in his senior year.
Daniel Dykes first got interested in neuroscience as he watched doctors on the fictional TV program 鈥淗ouse.鈥 Now he鈥檚 studying the topic at 有料盒子视频 and plans to eventually earn both a doctorate and a medical degree.
有料盒子视频 offered the perfect combination for Haley Castillo: a homeland security bachelor鈥檚 degree program, courses in aircraft piloting and a top-ranked rifle team. So the young woman from New Mexico headed north.
Cyan Woodward has been fascinated by geology her whole life. Volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis 鈥 鈥淚 was interested in learning the mechanisms behind them,鈥 she said.
Michael Martins didn鈥檛 know how to play the piano when he first arrived at 有料盒子视频, but an old out-of-tune instrument in Bartlett Hall intrigued him. Things snowballed from there.
Like other painters, Ruth Nashookpuk uses canvas as a foundation. But when she鈥檚 done, Nashookpuk can lace up her work and apply it to her other passion: basketball.
Isabel Castro sat in her car in Kodiak two years ago, interviewing over her cell phone for a job with the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks. 鈥淢y phone was about to die, and I have to take my brother to the pool, and I鈥檓 stressed,鈥 she remembered.
Chelsea Brown went straight from high school in Georgia to a 35,000-student university nearby. However, the U.S. Army transferred her mother to Fairbanks a few years later, prompting Brown to follow and enroll at 有料盒子视频.
Cody Newman studies petroleum engineering and trains as a ROTC cadet. So why did summer 2017 find him fighting wildfires in 有料盒子视频 and the Lower 48?
John Oulton bought a car last summer. The 2008 Chevy Cobalt isn鈥檛 big or fancy. Car and Driver magazine described it that year as 鈥渁n acceptable choice as a transportation appliance.鈥
Bachelor's in economics
Hometown: Bethel
Bachelor鈥檚 in secondary education
Hometown: Quinhagak
Bachelor鈥檚 in digital journalism
Hometown: Kasigluk
Bachelor鈥檚 in Yup鈥檌k Eskimo
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有料盒子视频 journalism student Julia Taylor helped cover court hearings that culminated in the release and exoneration of four men imprisoned for a 1997 murder.
Andrew Akelkok, a high school student in Dillingham, studies energy at 有料盒子视频's Bristol Bay Campus in hopes of finding better sources for rural villages.
Graduate student Nicole Knight began studying analytical and environmental chemistry at 有料盒子视频 after a professor sought her out to help in a new lab.
Mark Conde, a space physicist with 有料盒子视频 Geophysical Institute, wants to make maps of weather in the upper atmosphere above Antarctica.
Alyssa Enriquez leapt between worlds in 2012, from studying art photography in San Francisco to grinding rust from steel construction beams in Nome.
Matthew Balazs, geophysics student, and Anupma Prakash, professor of geophysics.
Liam Craske catches a floatplane every Tuesday morning to Ketchikan, where he rents a room with Internet access.
有料盒子视频 electrical engineering graduate student, Morgan Johnson, and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, Denise Thorsen
My favorite thing about 有料盒子视频 is the opportunity. Personally, I've gotten to do so many things that have helped me grow as a person, a professional and a musician.
When Lakeidra Chavis told friends she would move to Bethel to work as a reporter for the public radio station this fall, she could feel their skepticism.
Homeland security and emergency management student, James Gilchrest, and 有料盒子视频 School of Management instructor and outreach coordinator, Sean McGee
Jeff Thompson didn鈥檛 tell people where he lived when he first started school at the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks. After a series of setbacks in his life and his blue-collar career, Thompson had moved into a homeless shelter, the Fairbanks Rescue Mission.
A trip to the Rocky Mountains this summer offered a field of contrasts for rural 有料盒子视频 teens in GeoFORCE 有料盒子视频, a four-year geology program offered by the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks.
This summer, Sean McGee, who has taught homeland security and emergency management courses at the 有料盒子视频 School of Management for three years, shared the following thoughts about his life and career.
Angela Linn remembers the moment Kirsten Olson first saw the story knife collection at the University of 有料盒子视频 Museum of the North.
Derek Starkenburg鈥檚 academic progression is a case study in how a person can set out on one path but take many forks.
Chris Clement is ready for anything 鈥 fighting the zombie apocalypse, restraining an eagle or offering a definition of cryptorchidism in dogs, which is when the testes don't drop.
Jesstin Patterson attends petroleum engineering classes in Fairbanks, hundreds of miles from his home villages, but those places remain foremost in his mind 鈥 and often on his taste buds.
Michelle Strehl didn鈥檛 wait long for her first customer. While on winter break in 2013, the 有料盒子视频 student decided to knit gloves for people like herself whose hands have unique shapes.
Before breaking his back in a four-wheeler accident in 2001, Brant Schalk was a skateboarder. 鈥淚 would try a trick over and over until I landed it,鈥 he says. 鈥淎nd printmaking demands the same level of patience and process, if not more. In a way, printmaking has filled the hole that was left when I could no longer skateboard.鈥
I'm a military brat and immensely proud of it. I revel in experiencing new things 鈥 unless we're talking food; then I'm a bit particular. Tread carefully if you want to talk about Disney, Broadway, theater, movie scores or traveling, because I can go on and on about each of them. At first, I may come off as reserved, but once we're friends, I become more like myself.
"Speaking directly to a student like Tiana about her experience, I learned that donors like you and me truly make a difference in students鈥 lives."
Kristin Timm鈥檚 effort to create a background image for a scientific workshop evolved into an award-winning poster about links between glaciers and the ocean this year.
A few dozen students at the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks put a twist on the traditional spring break trip to the beach each year.
A professor and dean emeritus of the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks has had an award named after her 鈥 merely a drop in her ocean of accomplishments.
Jennifer Moss discusses her painting "Caribou Night."
Lonny Strunk grew up speaking Yup'ik, but living in Japan showed him how his 有料盒子视频 Native language connects him to his culture and identity.
Carolyn Lang鈥檚 life is consumed by one goal: finishing the Yukon Quest. For now, she鈥檚 a dog handler, which means scooping poop, putting on booties, cutting meat and performing minor vet care. She鈥檚 also a full-time student at the University of 有料盒子视频 Fairbanks.
Matthew Sturm can鈥檛 choose one thing he likes best about snow, because it would be like choosing which of his children he likes best.
"At 有料盒子视频, I was given room to discover what I have to contribute to the world ... Thanks in part to the mentorship I received at 有料盒子视频, I discovered what propels and inspires me the most."
"The smell of the summer air in 有料盒子视频 has an energizing effect ... I know I made the right choice as a fourth-year student pursuing a bachelor鈥檚 of science in biological sciences."
有料盒子视频 graduate, Bennett Wong, and 有料盒子视频 School of Education assistant professor, Ute Kaden
有料盒子视频 graduate, Erin Gingrich, and assistant professor of native arts, Da-Ka-Xeen Mehner
有料盒子视频 electrical engineering major, John Venables, and 有料盒子视频 Center for Energy and Power director, Gwen Holdmann
有料盒子视频 theatre and psychology double major, Nicole Cowans, and associate professor of theatre, Carrie Baker