UAA’s Departments of Athletics recently unveiled a new logo for the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout. Designed by The Nerland Agency and commissioned by Carrs/Safeway, the shield-shaped logo features a basketball rising over snow-capped mountains with the name of the tournament, its title sponsor and host institution UAA. With a dynamic [...]

Don’t miss Michelle Wooten’s final night of public shows as a planetarium presenter. This has been her third year at UAA in a position funded by a three-year grant. She is moving to Nashville, Tenn. with her husband, fellow planetarium presenter Dave Wooten, and plans to continue her career in [...]

Friday, July 12, 8-9 p.m. ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Room 220 “Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity” is a full-dome show from Thomas Lucas Productions, developed in collaboration with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, NOVA and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Narrated by Academy-Award nominated actor [...]

Don’t miss Andy Puckett’s final night of public shows as a planetarium presenter. He is moving to Columbus, Ga. to take a tenure-track faculty position at Columbus State University in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. The search is currently underway for his replacement as UAA’s Planetarium Director. “Two [...]

Friday, June 14, 8-9 p.m. ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Room 220 Relive the excitement of the early days of space exploration, from the launch of the first artificial satellite to the magnificent lunar landings and privately operated space flights. Be immersed and overwhelmed with this most accurate historic reconstruction of [...]

Friday, June 14, 6:30-7:30 p.m. ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Room 220 This full-dome presentation follows the construction, launch and early science results of NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission (IBEX). The spacecraft never gets farther than the orbit of the moon, but by collecting fast-moving particles that have traveled 10 billion [...]

Friday, May 31, 8-9 p.m. ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Room 220 “Awesome Light,” a full-dome show from the Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii, shows discoveries from the giant telescopes of Maunakea. With unique access to these telescopes, it showcases the latest discoveries from the major international observatories located in Hawaii. Learn [...]

Friday, May 31 and July 12, 6:30-7:30 p.m. ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building, Room 220 For as long as humans have contemplated the cosmos, we have wondered if we are alone. Narrated by Harrison Ford and created in collaboration with NASA, the American Museum of Natural History’s “The Search for Life: [...]

On May 5, at the insistence of her daughters, Lisa Vandelac put on her first cap and gown to celebrate a successful second chance. After more than 20 years as a hairdresser and single mom to two girls, she seized her opportunity to write a new chapter in the story of her life. Read the rest of Lisa’s story here.

Friday, June 21, 8:55 a.m.- 4:15 p.m. UAA Faculty and Staff are invited to join the UAA/ National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) team for the Social Inclusion and Equity one-day workshop. Do not miss the opportunity to engage in this experiential process and series of activities. The one-day workshop will [...]