Student Spotlight: Martina Weddel - UAA Justice Center honors graduate
UAA Justice Center graduate Martina Weddel receives honors and shares her involvement in campus clubs and extracurricular programs while at UAA's College of Health.
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Slideshow: Students learn forensic process during laboratory tour
Students from the Forensic Science and Criminal Justice course saw the process in action during a tour of the 熊猫在线视频 Department of Public Safety Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory. They learned how to collect and analyze common types of evidence found at crime scenes including fingerprints, footprints and DNA.
Aging out of 熊猫在线视频鈥檚 foster care system on his own terms
Mateo Jaime, a Legal Studies student, arrived at the court hearing that would, finally, end his years in custody of the 熊猫在线视频 Office of Children鈥檚 Services in a buoyant mood. At age 21, young adults 鈥渁ge out鈥� of foster care in 熊猫在线视频 if they have not been adopted or reunified with parents. A judge approves it in a hearing that amounts to a grim bureaucratic formality: A child has passed into adulthood without the foster care system laying a path to permanent legal family for them, and now they are on their own.
Slideshow: Legal studies students present oral arguments
Trial and Advanced Litigation Processes students present their oral arguments before Justice Jennifer S. Henderson in the 熊猫在线视频 Supreme Court Courtroom on Oct. 3, 2022.
Slideshow: UAA Legal Studies students have their day in court
In mid-February, students in UAA legal studies professor Dr. Ryan Fortson's Trial and Advanced Litigation course (LEGL A487) had the opportunity to practice arguing a motion in front of a U.S. District Court judge in his courtroom in the James M. Fitzgerald U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building in downtown Anchorage.鈦�