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The UAA Justice Center worked in partnership with the ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ Department of Public Safety (DPS) through the Federal Bureau of Justice Assistance funded ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (AK-SAKI) to conduct research on DPS's policies and procedures related to sexual assault investigations, prosecutions, and victim-survivor engagement and support.

In February 2022, a team at the ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ led by Dr. Jennifer Meyer deployed a statewide survey to assess respondents' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to COVID-19 prevention strategies and specifically Long Covid or Post COVID conditions.

Div. of Population Health Sciences associate professor Corrie Whitmore co-authored a published article in College Teaching about making land acknowledgements in university settings meaningful, title "Making Land Acknowledgements in the University Setting Meaningful and Appropriate."

UAA Justice Center Assistant Professor Ingrid Johnson recently published an article in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, titled "Victim-Survivors’ Prioritization of Reasons for Non-Reporting Adult Sexual Assaults to Law Enforcement." This manuscript used data from a survey of survivors of adult sexual assault in ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ on their reasons for not reporting to the police, which was part of the ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (AK-SAKI).

On June 30, the ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ Black Caucus held the Covid & Beyond: Black Health & Wellness Town Hall at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium at the ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ. Amana Mbise, Ph.D., an assistant professor with the School of Social Work under the College of Health, presented eye-opening findings from the first-ever Black ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵns Health Status report.

According to results from research led by Micah Hahn, an environmental epidemiologist here at UAA, ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵns' health starts suffering when temperatures climb to 70 degrees, and that local and state officials should consider policies to respond to heat-related health problems that are expected to increase as the climate continues to warm.

The medical laboratory science (MLS) research team presents at the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Scientist conference.

UAA’s Faculty Development and Instructional Support unit announce the recipients of 2021-2022 Faculty Development Awards, which included numerous COH faculty and staff!

Micah Hahn, assistant professor of Environmental Health with the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies of the UAA Div. of Population Health Sciences, has recently co-authored numerous papers focused on wildfire smoke, evolving perceptions, modeling geographic uncertainty, implications of inadequate water storage, and more.

More than two years into the pandemic, vaccines are widely available and most health measures have been lifted. But there are still ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵns who have difficulty accessing vaccines or who have continued health risk in spite of them. Sondra LeClair, Health Projects Coordinator, UAA Center for Human Development, discusses vaccine access for individuals with disabilities in ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ.