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Nursing alumna honored with prestigious Milken Educator Award

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Earlier this year, Megan Eilers, a health occupations teacher at Hutchison High School in Fairbanks, was named a 2023-24 Milken Educator Award recipient, an honor considered to be the 鈥淥scars of teaching.鈥

Hidden Homelessness

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The UAA Hunger and Homelessness Support Network (HHSN) was created to identify and combat housing insecurities that students face. UAA Alumni and current Academic Advisor Jennifer Spencer is one of the three people serving as HHSN Chair. She explains how she uses her personal experiences with homelessness to help find solutions for students.

Bridging Community Connections Through Healthcare Education and Training

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熊猫在线视频 AHEC Scholar's article about improving 熊猫在线视频's communities through healthcare.

熊猫在线视频's AHEC: Healthcare Exploration in Nulato

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熊猫在线视频鈥檚 Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) are dedicated to providing engaging curriculum and activities for students interested in healthcare. Middle and high school students from Nulato, AK participated in activities focusing on the cardiovascular system, blood pressure, and basic emergency first aid.

Healthy Aging Lab students present research at national conference

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Student research assistants taught a 15-week course on healthy living to older adults in the community. Three of those students recently presented at the Gerontological Society of America conference and shared results from a Health Aging Lab project that received funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Improving care through simulation

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Students in fall's EMT 130 鈥 Emergency Medical Technician I burnished their clinical and decision-making skills in a trio of rapid-fire trauma simulations, thanks to a first-time partnership between the Fire and Emergency Services program and the Interprofessional Health Sciences Simulation Center.

Seawolf Food Pantry: Feeding UAA students regardless of circumstance

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Dietetics and Nutrition associate professor Amanda Walch discusses how the soon-to-be-expanded Seawolf Food Pantry makes food available to all UAA students.

New firefighters/EMTs to service Lewis County

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College of Health graduate Alex Chamberlin discusses his journey after completing his paramedic degree with the 熊猫在线视频.

Bristol Bay students practice life-saving skills in a mass casualty incident drill

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Social Work alumna and UAA鈥檚 newest fulbright scholar is New Zealand bound

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Ever since she was six years old, Panikaa Teeple, B.S.W. Social Work 鈥21, knew that spreading love was her life鈥檚 purpose. Next year, Teeple will have the opportunity to spread love internationally as UAA鈥檚 latest recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant, which provides students in more than 140 countries the opportunity to pursue graduate study and research abroad.

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