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I witnessed this wonderful, warm spirit of caring during the Bioneers conference at Alaska Pacific University last weekend. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
Change at the museum helm: Farewell Oct 22, 2007
" Wolf soaked up art and anthropology at Alaska Methodist University (now Alaska Pacific University), where professor Saradell Ard triggered Wolf's lifelong love affair with Alaska Native art. Wolf also expanded her volunteer role at the museum. In 1973 she helped coordinate the museum's first major temporary exhibit, "The Far North," from the Smithsonian Institution. Ard recommended Wolf for a Rockefeller fellowship in museum education and community programs in San Francisco, followed by an... (Anchorage Daily News)
Scholars dig into Muslim culture Oct 8, 2007
A new Alaska Pacific University project is giving Alaskans an opportunity to study and discuss Muslim culture ... Here's how you can participate in "Engaging Muslims: Religion, Cultures, Politics" at Alaska Pacific University. (Anchorage Daily News)
Keep 'em open Oct 5, 2007
Both Alaska Pacific University and UAA have pools with public hours. His memo said a city our size can't sustain one pool per 18,000 people. (Anchorage Daily News)
Letters to the Editor Oct 1, 2007
The Alaska Pacific University and University of Alaska Anchorage pools are geared mainly to serve the needs of the academic community. H2Oasis is a water park, not a conventional pool. (Anchorage Daily News)
2007 holiday bazaars Sep 28, 2007
Fly by Night Potters, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 20, Alaska Pacific University, Carr Gottstein Building. Shop for handmade pottery and sculpture by Toni Maury, Barbara Holman, Paul Dungan and Peter Brondz. (Anchorage Daily News)
Native leader Alex of Eklutna dies Sep 16, 2007
He was also a member of the State of Alaska Commission on Federal Land Areas; president of Alaska Native Land Managers Association for 11 years; cultural adviser for the Alaska Native Harbor Seal Commission; board member of Alaska Pacific University for 27 years; project coordinator for the Cook Inlet Marine Mammal Commission; member of the State of Alaska Commission on Federal Land Areas; commissioner of Cook Inlet Housing Authority and Cook Inlet Housing Development Authority; board member of... (Anchorage Daily News)
'Into the Wild' premieres in Fairbanks Sep 5, 2007
Roman Dial, a professor at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, took Krakauer on a mountain bike trip to the bus site in 1993 to help the writer research the book. The movie crew used Dials pictures to re-create the bus for the movie. (Anchorage Daily News)
Inside Alaska business Aug 30, 2007
Alaska Pacific University appears on 'Best College' list Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage is ranked No. 54 among master's level universities in the West in the 2008 edition of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News Report, APU said. This is the fourth year Alaska Pacific has been ranked, the university said. (Anchorage Daily News)
Close the loop Aug 26, 2007
The major property owners are the city, Providence Hospital, the University of Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University. The two universities did not want to lock into routes that might get in the way of future buildings on their campuses, said Gillette. (Anchorage Daily News)
Matters of Faith Aug 26, 2007
John Borelli, an expert in interreligious dialogue, will speak at a series of free lectures, "Engaging Muslims: Religion, Cultures, Politics," at Grant Hall theater at Alaska Pacific University, 4101 University Drive ... Regina A. Boisclair, professor of religious studies at Alaska Pacific University, will offer the four-week course "Foundations of Islam" from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays Aug. 28 to Sept. 20. (Anchorage Daily News)
A Ride To Remember Aug 14, 2007
Riley, along with Exes' social chair and secretary Kathy Foerster, set up refreshment tables along pit stops from Beaver Creek, Tok, Sutton and Chugiak, finally organizing a finish line party in the parking lot of Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage. Contact J.J. Harrier at 352-2269 or. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
SCSU president declares school carbon-neutral Aug 13, 2007
She will become the 337th college president to sign, alphabetically between Douglas M. North, president of Alaska Pacific University, and Robert A. Oden Jr. president of Carleton College. The statement reads in part, "Colleges and universities must exercise leadership in their communities throughout society by modeling ways to eliminate global warming emissions, and by providing the knowledge and the educated graduates to achieve climate neutrality.". (New Haven Register, CT)
Defending Tour champ exceeds his expectations Jul 31, 2007
Jordan was attending Alaska Pacific University to earn his teaching certificate and interning at Romig Middle School. At night, he worked a 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. shift at Alaska Children Services. (Anchorage Daily News)
Fun for all: ‘Summer Splash' ensures fun for everyone Jul 29, 2007
Challenge Alaska's Jeff Dick said the event could not be possible without the help of dozens of volunteers, including members of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and lifeguards from the Palmer Pool, as well as donations from Alaska Toy Rental and Outfitting, REI, Alaska Pacific University and the Palmer Elks. t's a lot of different people coming together, he said. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Sun Valley sends three skiers to U.S. Cross Country Team Jul 18, 2007
Kikkan Randall (12/31/82; Anchorage, AK; Alaska Pacific University Nordic) ... Taz Mannix (6/14/86; Talkeetna, AK; Alaska Pacific University Nordic) ... Laura Valaas (3/2/84; Wenatchee, WA; Alaska Pacific University Nordic). (Wood River Journal, ID)
Alaska skiers named to U.S. nordic team Jul 14, 2007
Taz Mannix of Talkeetna and her new teammate at Alaska Pacific University, Laura Valaas, are both on the B team. World Cup podium performers Andy Newell of Shaftsbury, Vt. (Anchorage Daily News)
Racism persists, but society has power to overcome it Jul 2, 2007
As a student attending Alaska Pacific University, I saw that a clerk in the registrar's office had on her desktop calendar in big bold letters "NATIVE STUDENTS INVADE CAMPUS.". More recently, as an adult living in Anchorage and the Mat-Su area, I've been called epithets more commonly aimed at Asians, Hispanics and illegal immigrants. (Anchorage Daily News)
Yale offered more papers on Kent State Jun 26, 2007
After serving at Kent State in Ohio, he had served as president of Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage. Earlier, he consulted on forming the Peace Corps and served at the United Nations under President Nixon. (New Haven Register, CT)
Televisions off, nature on Jun 6, 2007 Veg out, eat well Jun 1, 2007 Guide to 2007 summer camps Apr 27, 2007 Winning singers perform in recital Apr 25, 2007 OHS names Class of 2007 honor graduates Apr 25, 2007 Anchorage schools review crisis plans Apr 19, 2007 Alaska Winter Olympians get youngsters excited about skiing Apr 17, 2007 Pararescueman challenges the wilderness to save others Apr 16, 2007 Summer camps Apr 13, 2007 Daily News letters Apr 11, 2007 Talkeetna native wins national ski titles Apr 10, 2007 City offers 900 free vaccinations to help prevent bacterial meningitis Apr 8, 2007 Hot race for Seat H Mar 30, 2007 Study of Bragaw cut-through is tucked into bonds Mar 29, 2007 Flagstad, Pearson top skiers in 50-K Mar 27, 2007 Two challenge Coffey for his Assembly seat Mar 26, 2007 Cuts strike at Native education Mar 23, 2007 Mannix 14th at U-23 worlds Mar 17, 2007 Employee options range from gym use to exercise in exchange for time off Mar 12, 2007 Outdoors hot line Mar 12, 2007 Record turnout for the Tour of Anchorage Mar 6, 2007 Past students salute beloved piano teacher Feb 25, 2007 Tennessee tourism campaign uses Alaska mountains Feb 24, 2007 APU skier wins international circuit race Feb 21, 2007 Tales of the Frosts and Alaska Feb 18, 2007 Growing Number of Colleges Provide Tuition Aid to AmeriCorps Alums Feb 8, 2007 Logging May Have Contributed To Decline Of Alaskan Sea Bird Feb 8, 2007 Lars Flora dominating SuperTour races Feb 3, 2007 ‹ Together Jan 30, 2007 National champ gets schooled by 'old guy' Jan 30, 2007 Dream finish puts Kikkan in world class by herself Jan 23, 2007 Community datebook Jan 16, 2007 Knight's time tops the duathlon competition Jan 16, 2007 Precious metal clay proves irresistible to artists Jan 15, 2007 Flora's team takes first sprint team title Jan 9, 2007 Having run 50,000 miles, she slows down Jan 8, 2007 Teenager stuns field at U.S. championships Jan 6, 2007 Randall 2nd, Flora misses 3rd in Nordic championships Jan 5, 2007 Icy track promises speed at national championships Jan 4, 2007 Alaskans gear up for nationals in Michigan Jan 2, 2007 The struggle for existence prevailed as the top theme in outdoors stories Jan 1, 2007
An Alaska Center for the Environment program, the camp operates on 700-acre Spring Creek Farm in Palmer, an Alaska Pacific University campus ... Trailside Discovery Camp will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year with five week-long sessions at Spring Creek Farm in Palmer, an Alaska Pacific University (APU) campus. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Winning mentality Jun 4, 2007
Robin Smyth, left, receives some one-on-one instruction from Dave Scott as the swimming session winds down June 2, 2007, at Alaska Pacific University. Winning mentality. (Anchorage Daily News)
This is the first stab at running a CSA for Anne-Corinne Kell and Steve Rubinstein, who teaches environmental science at Alaska Pacific University. They're starting small and are filled up for this year but will begin taking subscriptions for next summer in December. (Anchorage Daily News)
Where: Moseley Sports Center, Alaska Pacific University. Cost: $125, $110 additional siblings. (Anchorage Daily News)
Winners of the 23rd annual Vocal Competition of the Alaska Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing showed their stuff Saturday in a recital in Grant Hall at Alaska Pacific University. Here are the winners, listed alphabetically with placement, division and award amounts. (Anchorage Daily News)
95 GPA. She is the daughter of Darrell and Julie Grabow and will study marine biology at Alaska Pacific University. Megan Spencer has achieved a 3. (Oscoda Press, MI)
Alaska Pacific University, a much smaller campus, secures the dorms with electronic key systems and staffs an emergency phone at all hours. But APU officials urge people to call 911 first, said dean of students Kelly Smith. (Anchorage Daily News)
Anchorage Daily News. " Gavin's companions for the day were 5-year-old Ingrid Flora and 6-year-old Maria Baez, who formed Randall's training trio. Near the beginning of the clinic on the Hilltop trails, one of them drew his attention, so he decided to take a look. With his head upside-down and between his legs, of course -- which proved too much temptation for Randall. "Hey, somebody spanked me on the butt," Gavin protested. "It wasn't me," Randall said, quickly skiing away with a guilty look on... (Anchorage Daily News)
Anchorage Daily News. That sort of put the bug in my ear, so when I got back from school in the spring of '94 my buddy and I bought an ice ax and spent the next two years tooling around in the (Chugach) foothills around Flattop. (Anchorage Daily News)
Anchorage Daily News. " Ages: 5-12 or grades K-6 When: 9 a.m.-3:45 p.m., June 18-Aug. 30. Choose one week or all six. No camp the week of July 4. Where: Russian Jack Springs Park, DeBarr Road Cost: $150 per week (before- and after-camp care additional) Contact: Tasha Nichols, 248-2250; ; YMCA DAY CAMPS Sponsor: Anchorage Community YMCA When: 7 a.m.-6:30 p.m. May 29- Aug. 17 Anchorage Day Camp Fun-filled days of hiking, archery, field trips, swimming, arts and crafts, field games and wilderness... (Anchorage Daily News)
Bulldozing Bragaw Street between the Alaska Pacific University and University of Alaska Anchorage campuses has sadly become an issue ("Study of Bragaw cut-through is tucked into bonds," March 28). In most civilized cities, there is an effort to move traffic away from hospitals and places of learning rather than closer to them. (Anchorage Daily News)
She's a former Region III champion who went from Talkeetna to the prestigious Alaska Pacific University team, and now to the U.S. Ski team. This season in Europe saw the globetrotting Mannix reach her highest level of success yet. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
Both Alaska Pacific University and University of Alaska Anchorage recommend that their students get the vaccine, said O'Connor. -- Anchorage Daily News. (Anchorage Daily News)
He earned a bachelor's degree in education at the University of Nebraska and a master's in public administration from UAA. He taught at Alaska Methodist University -- now Alaska Pacific University -- and later co-owned a real estate company and a motor home company. He served as Republican Party chairman for four years. (Anchorage Daily News)
The University of Alaska, Alaska Pacific University, the Alaska Native Medical Center and Providence Alaska Medical Center all should be involved in the planning, he said. The notion of cutting Bragaw through the campuses has been discussed since the 1970s and, until now, was routinely shot down. (Anchorage Daily News)
UAA nordic coach Trond Flagstad and Alaska Pacific University skier Kate Pearson won Saturday's 50-kilometer Sonot Kkaazoot ski race in downtown Fairbanks. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
He'd come to get away and to go to school, and soon he was taking classes at Alaska Pacific University on his G.I. Bill. He liked Alaskans' values -- privacy, independence -- and hooked up with the Alaska Libertarian Party, which is seeking to place candidates in local office. (Anchorage Daily News)
WASHINGTON -- Karen Coffey, a teacher's aide in the Bering Strait School District, flies to Anchorage each semester at government expense to supplement her online education classes at Alaska Pacific University. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
The Alaska Pacific University skier clocked 25 minutes, 21. 5 seconds, which was 53 seconds slower than winner Silvana Bucher of Switzerland. (Anchorage Daily News)
Athena Correa takes part in a Pilates class during Out and About Fridays at Alaska Pacific University, Mar ... It's Friday fun day at Alaska Pacific University. (Anchorage Daily News)
"Basic Sea Kayaking," a two-part clinic for those interested in sea kayaking, is being offered through Alaska Pacific University. Classes are 7:30- 9:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday at the Moseley Sport Center on campus. (Anchorage Daily News)
" But the race still draws an impressive lineup of some of Alaska's fastest skiers including Lillefjell, a former UAA All-American who now coaches at the heralded Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center. While Lillefjell didn't have to haul a kid behind him, he had a headache of his own. At Point Woronzof, about seven kilometers from the finish, the basket on his ski pole broke, leaving him with nothing but a sharp point to pole with. "It's more of an annoyance than anything," Lillefjell... (Anchorage Daily News)
A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC, presented by the Russian Academy of Music, with Svetlana Velichko and students, is at 4 p.m. Sunday at Grant Hall Auditorium on the campus of Alaska Pacific University. Tickets are $20, $10 for students and seniors. (Anchorage Daily News)
Tobin and Dial teach at Alaska Pacific University. During the 1996 trip, the trekkers encountered grizzlies, caribou herds, glacier crossings and crevasses, Dial said. (Anchorage Daily News)
Taz Mannix of the Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center won a 15-kilometer Europa Cup skate race on Sunday in Planica, Slovenia. The Europa Cup race is an international race circuit that's one step down from the World Cup, which attracts the best international skiers. (Anchorage Daily News)
After teaching for nine years at Willamette University in Salem he was offered a job at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage in 1963. "We were in Salem during the Columbus Day storm," his wife recalls of that natural disaster in 1962. (Mail Tribune, OR)
List of Colleges and Universities that Match the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK University of Arkansas -- Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock, AR CA Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA Mills College, Oakland, CA Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA University of Delaware, Newark, DE George Washington University -- School of Public Policy, Washington, DC Southeastern University,... (PR Newswire)
Tim Birt and Vicki Friesen (Queens University), Dr. Scott Hatch (USGS Alaska Science Center), Dr. Gary Drew (USGS Alaska Science Center), Ann Harding (Alaska Pacific University), and Mayumi Arimitsu and Kirsten Bixler (USGS Alaska Science Center). Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by United States Geological Survey. (Science Daily)
The sprint standings are dominated by Alaska skiers with the Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center. Flora leads with 192 points, followed by Eric Strabel with 187 and Anders Haugen with 162. (Anchorage Daily News)
She graduated from East High School in 1996 and from Alaska Pacific University with a degree in business. April is an administrative manager with the state of Alaska. (Anchorage Daily News)
The "old guy" is 38-year-old Frode Lillefjell, one of the best nordic skiers in UAA history and Knight's coach at Alaska Pacific University, one of the top nordic ski development programs in the country. Sunday, Lillefjell cruised into the finish chute at Kincaid Park in 1:27:32, some 33 seconds ahead of his 22-year-old pupil who arrived doubled over in his matching blue APU Lycra. (Anchorage Daily News)
"Conditions were what you might see on a glacier in Alaska during the summer, and I've asked myself, 'When am I ever gonna race on this?' It was good (today) to have that experience," said Randall, a member of the Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center, which occasionally trains on Eagle Glacier north of Girdwood. Coming into the final climb, Randall said, she was in fourth or fifth place and ready to make her move. (Anchorage Daily News)
Sponsored by Alaska Speedskating Club, Nordic Ski Association of Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University. (; Peter Haeussler, 688-6585; Tim Kelly, 349-4039; Marc Phillips, 564-8314). (Anchorage Daily News)
The former UAA skier, who trains with the Alaska Pacific University, raced a 5-kilometer classic leg followed immediately by a 5-K freestyle leg for a total time of 26 minutes, 52 seconds. He topped 1994 Olympic skier Adam Verrier by 32 seconds and last year's high school skimeister Max Treinen by 43 seconds. (Anchorage Daily News)
She also taught art at Anchorage Community College and Alaska Pacific University, where she coordinated the graphic arts program. "There's nothing more exciting than seeing people learn, seeing their minds jump to someplace they've never been before," she said. (Anchorage Daily News)
-- With four Olympians in desperate pursuit, Tyson Flaharty of Alaska Pacific University whizzed downhill -- two minutes away from claiming the inaugural team sprint at the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships. The lead was short-lived for Flaharty, a former UAF skier. (Anchorage Daily News)
That's when John Trent, Bob Layman and Jim Brown, a coach at Alaska Methodist University, now Alaska Pacific University, celebrated running the equivalent of the Alaska Highway between Anchorage and Dawson Creek, a distance of 1,644 miles. After that first milestone came another -- the distance between Anchorage and Seattle. (Anchorage Daily News)
"It's a little bit (frustrating) but again I gave it what I had today, that's always goal number one," said Randall, of the Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center and the U.S. Ski Team. "I don't have an extra bounce in my step, which is usually what helps me excel in skating," added Randall. (Anchorage Daily News)
Lindsey Weier of Northern Michigan University and the U.S. Ski Team claimed her seventh national championship by topping two-time Olympian Randall from Alaska Pacific University by eight seconds, overcoming a slight deficit in the final two kilometers of the interval start race. "I looked up on the scoreboard and I was like, 'No way.' I was three to five seconds out of the lead at 3-K and then I guess I must have picked it up a lot," said Weier, who has spent little time skiing so far this... (Anchorage Daily News)
Erik Flora, director and head coach of Anchorage's Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center, has several athletes shooting for podium spots and called such conditions his "favorite.". "To have warm right around freezing (conditions) makes waxing nice and technical and challenging. It's different from home," Flora said after a coaches' meeting Tuesday night on the Michigan Tech University campus. (Anchorage Daily News)
Skiers from UAA, UAF and Alaska Pacific University will compete as well as 2006 Winter Olympic team members Kikkan Randall, James Southam and Lars Flora. Current skimeisters Patrick Johnson and Amy Glen will attend as well as former skimeisters Mike Hinckley (Service, 2004, 2005), Justin Singleton (Chugiak, 2002, 2003), Fiona Worchester (West, 2005), and Kate Pearson (Lathrop 1996, 1997). (Anchorage Daily News)
An instructor at Alaska Pacific University, Geck had some experience in backcountry decision-making. He arrived at the finish of the Classic after making the choice to bail out of the much-hyped Arctic 1000 Expedition at the village of Anaktuvuk Pass days earlier. (Anchorage Daily News)
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