Preconference Symposium: "The Things We Make: Alaska Native Artists and Their Art"
Thursday, April 4, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Anchorage Museum

Registration is $15 at the door and includes admission to all panels and artist performances, as well as coffee and snacks.

Conference, day one
Friday, April 6, 8 a.m.
Wendy Williamson Auditorium

Sessions and registration begin at 8 a.m. Graham Smith (Maori) from Whakatane, New Zealand will deliver the keynote address at 9 a.m.

Conference, day two
Saturday, April 6, 8 a.m.

Sessions begin at 8 a.m. Brunch will be provided in the UAA/APU Consortium Library at 10:30 a.m.

Closing banquet
Saturday, April 6, 5:30 p.m.
Alaska Native Heritage Center

The closing banquet begins with an open house at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6 p.m.

For more information or to register, visit the Alaska Native Studies website.

Public Health Open House
Monday, April 1, 3:15-6 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307

Learn more about UAA's public health programs and your options at the upcoming Public Health Open House. Light refreshments will be served.

"No Matter the Weather" Walk
Thursday, April 4, noon
Meet in front of the ConocoPhillips Integrated Science Building

Join us for a 1.5-mile walk along the Goose Lake Trail. Participants will have the chance to win prizes.

Free screening of "Temple Grandin"
Thursday, April 4, 6-8 p.m.
Rasmuson Hall, Room 111

"Temple Grandin" is a biopic about an autistic woman who is one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry. This is an educational event for students. Co-sponsored with the College of Health Diversity Committee.

Arctic Health Sciences Seminar (AHSS)
Friday, April 5, 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Rasmuson Hall, Room 316

Hear the latest from Alaskans actively engaged in arctic health sciences research. Light refreshments will be served.

Rain or shine, library employees and friends are holding a yard sale on May 11. At least 10 percent of the total proceeds will go to the library. Come shop and support the library, or help by joining the yard sale. Advance notification is required to participate.

For more information, contact Arlene Schmuland at (907) 786-6046 or abschmuland@uaa.alaska.edu.

UAA Students for Life present a viewing of "October Baby," a film about a college freshman whose world is rocked when she learns the circumstances of her birth.

Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Senior Fellow Naomi Natale will be on campus April 11 and 12. The keynote of her visit will be a free, public lecture titled "The Intersection of Art and Activism" on Thursday, April 11.

She will also meet with students in the Student Union Gallery in four sessions to make bones for her installation "One Million Bones," scheduled to debut on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this June.

The Student Activities Gallery Team is presenting both events.

About Naomi Natale:
Installation artist and photographer Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind "One Million Bones," a large-scale social arts project that fuses education and hands-on artmaking to raise awareness of genocide occurring worldwide. A TED Senior Fellow, Natale speaks internationally on the topic of art and activism, and what one can do for the other. She wants to bring people closer to the atrocities occurring near and far.

As the founder and director of "The Cradle Project," her first large-scale installation, Natale called attention to and raised funds for the 48 million children orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa. More than 550 cradles were created and donated by artists from around the world who were drawn to Natale's vision. With "One Million Bones," Natale and her team will collect one million handmade bones created by individuals all over the world. In 2013, they'll install them on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to bring attention to the victims of genocide.

Natale has received numerous awards, including the prestigious TED Global Fellowship (2009) and the Professional Achievement Award from the School of Arts and Humanities at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (2009). Naomi served as an artist-in-residence at Columbia College of Chicago in 2008, 2010 and 2011. She is currently a TED Senior Fellow and was a 2010 Carl Wilkens Fellow.

Celebrate the delights of early childhood with an afternoon dedicated to creativity, imagination and exploration. The UAA Creative Activities Fair is a free event geared towards young children, ages birth through third grade, and their families. Please note, adults must stay with the children they bring.

Sponsored by UAA's Early Childhood Program. For more information, contact Bonny Headley at bcheadley@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4464.

This event will be held at the APU-Carr Gottstein Building on the APU Campus. Please register so we can plan for your attendance.  Boot camp fee for students is $15; the general public rate is $50, including refreshments and lunch. Online payment is available after signing up for the boot camp.

Besides Saturday workshops in key areas like prepping a business plan or building a management team, Friday afternoon features speed-mentoring sessions with CPAs, attorneys, web developers, social media experts, finance gurus, business planning coaches and venture capital/angel investors.

Here's a line-up of activities:

Friday: APU-Carr Gottstein Building

• 1:30-2 p.m. Kick Off, with Keynote Welcome
• 2:15-5 p.m. Speed Mentoring session
• 5-6:30 p.m. Reception

Saturday: APU-Carr Gottstein Building

• 8:30 a.m. light breakfast
• 9 a.m.-Noon Sessions
• Noon-1 p.m. Lunch
• 1-2:30 p.m. Sessions
• 2:30 p.m.  Break
• 2:30-4:30 p.m. Sessions

Watch for updates on the full list of speed mentors for Friday afternoon, and session leaders for Saturday. If you have questions, please contact Scott Fredrickson, scott@scottfredrickson.com or (907) 564-8267.

Entrepreneurial Edge FREE talks by experts

• Building your Management Team with entrepreneur Forrest Nabors
  Friday, March 29, 3:30 p.m.
  UAA Campus, Rasmuson Hall, Room 101
• Sustainability Components (how to keep your business going)
  Friday, April 26, 3:30 p.m.
  UAA Campus, Rasmuson Hall, Room 101

Join United Academics (UNAC) for a presentation titled "The Revolution Will Not Take Place Online: Faculty, the Corporate University and Online Learning."

For more information, contact Nelta Edwards at nmedwards@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4654.

Golden Key is a nonprofit international academic honor society that recognizes the top 15 percent of sophomores, juniors and seniors in all undergraduate fields. Meetings and most events are open to all UAA students.

For more information, visit the Golden Key club website.

I bet you can't name one person who admits they moved to Alaska so they could live in Anchorage.

Of course not. We come for the skiing, the snowboarding, the hiking-camping-fishing—everything else that we love to do in the outdoors away from civilization.

Still, environmental psychologist Bree Kessler finds that quizzical. Because where do we spend most of our time? In fact, where does fully half the population of the state live? Right here in Anchorage.

As a longtime city dweller, Kessler arrived curious to explore the urban depths of Alaska's most populated city -- its parks, plazas, walkways, cafes, street life and character. Maybe you won't be surprised to hear she's been disappointed.

Puzzled would be her word for it. At almost every turn, she sees issues all cities with sizable populations face: a flood of immigrants and refugees, homelessness, a need for public transit, the quest for a walkable city and people-friendly open spaces, arts and culture venues, neighborhoods with close-by commercial benefits like small groceries or coffee shops.

Yes, some of these elements do exist in Anchorage, but few would argue all are thriving or well-cultivated and managed. Still she persists.

"Have you been to the Bear Tooth?" she asks with a touch of exasperation. "Clearly, people here want what cities have."

Convinced she can surface a closet urban tribe in Anchorage, this UAA public health professor is throwing her own conference, in conjunction with the Center for Community Engagement and Learning, to draw them from the woodwork.  The half-day event starts at 8:30 a.m. Friday, March 29 in the ground floor Den of the UAA Student Union building. The conference is free and open to the public; campus parking is always free on Fridays.
"Urban in Alaska" will field three panels and invite audience discussion on each one:

• Architecture, Public Space and Urban Design
• Health, Education and Food
• Labor, Migration and Refugees

The panelists and their specific topics are posted on the Facebook "Urban in Alaska" conference invite.

The academic and professional experts are all lined up. What Kessler wants now is to reach out to the community, city dwellers who may or may not identify with urban life, to hear their take on these topics.

Kessler arrived in Anchorage with Bush experience and a rich academic background. Her research took her to small villages in the Honduras and India. Her partner is a ranger in Gates of the Arctic National Park, and Kessler has spent valuable time on writing projects while living in its gateway, Bettles. But she misses urban life.

Before Alaska, Kessler spent a good chunk of time grounding herself in human behavior in various environments. She earned three master degrees from the University of Michigan in science, public health and social work and is currently completing a doctorate in environmental psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. While there, she consulted for the Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people build and sustain public spaces that support community.

This semester, she’s teaching an Honors College class on urban space, based around the 1980s book "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" by urbanist and journalist William Whyte. Many people may recognize his most popular book, "The Organization Man."

But when Whyte worked with the New York City Planning Department in the late 1960s, he engaged deeply with the city, using direct observation to record behavior in urban settings. With notebooks and still and movie cameras, Whyte and research assistants documented urban life in objective and measureable ways. This eventually evolved into the "Street Life Project" and became the basis of Whyte's writing on cities. Because of the rigor of his observations, the work's value continues today, often contradicting conventional wisdom about the way cities actually work.

Kessler is having her students do the same sort of observations in Anchorage, and they are discovering a city they didn't know. One small example: Students riding city buses discovered a flood of hotel workers, mostly women from Thailand, leaving the city center each evening bound for their homes in Anchorage's southern and eastern neighborhoods. "These populations are invisible," Kessler said, unless you look as closely as Whyte did.

One goal for the conference is to take all the submitted academic papers and edit them into a teaching text for her fall class on urban space. But she wants the conference to be practical, too. She hopes ideas will surface directly from the community to guide architects, planners, interior and landscape designers to help make Anchorage's urban space nicer for people to be in.

She'd like to engage Anchorage residents in their personal "mental map" of the town: If this were your final day here, where would your last walk be? She plans a grassroots website for gathering the data, called "MapmyAnchorage.com." Realizing the size of Anchorage's immigrant communities and its many relocated rural residents, she’d like to especially connect with them; they see and use the city differently than many.

Kessler remains convinced Anchorage has urbanites. "You know what I think?" she says, "Maybe, in Anchorage, it's a secret shame to admit you like the urban."

What do you think? Come to the conference and tell her.

NOTE: A version of this story ran in the Anchorage Daily News on Sunday, March 24, 2013.

This semester, the Sustainability Club will be meeting on Thursdays at 10 a.m. Note that this a change from the previously planned meeting time of Friday afternoons. For more information, visit the club's Facebook page.

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, join us for a discussion on violence, international law and the nature of peace. Panelists include Michihiro Am (Department of Languages), Chelsea Sayles (Campus Diversity and Compliance) and Kelly Shannon (Department of History).

This event is free and open to the public, with free parking in the South Lot just across from the bookstore. For more information, contact Rachel Epstein at repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782.

In 2012, Time Magazine called Ghana "Africa’s Newest Star." Ghana has a multi-party democracy, growing economy that includes oil production and glowing reputation for hospitality. Lawrence Lutz (who works with the North Slope Borough Health Department in Barrow) visited Ghana with the Peace Corps in 1990. He returned in 2009 to give HIV/AIDS training to educators. Come hear Lutz share his knowledge about Ghana and the experiences he had living there.

This event is free and open to the public, with free parking in the South Lot just across from the bookstore. For more information, contact Rachel Epstein at repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782.

At this event, recipients of Center for Community Engagement & Learning (CCEL) funding will describe their projects, student involvement, community partnerships and engaged research. Recipients include UAA faculty Caroline Wilson, Mike Mueller and Doug Causey, Gabrielle Barnett, Maureen O'Malley and Nancy Nix. Projects include "Alaska Brain Bee," "Kodiak Island Science Teacher/Scientist Partnerships," "WCF: Women. Culture. Film," "An Academic-Clinical Practice Partnership at Alaska Native Medical Center," and "Public Health Community Research.

This event is free and open to the public, with free parking in the South Lot just across from the bookstore. For more information, contact Rachel Epstein at repstein2@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-4782.

APT Council and Classified Council members are hosting a High Tea. This is an opportunity for salary and hourly staff to get together, socialize, meet their council representatives and win prizes. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to contribute. Please bring a treat to share.

First Prize*
Apple iPad Mini Black (32GB), courtesy of Information Technology Service

Second Prize*
Certificates for two General Admission Ticket Packages for the Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout, courtesy of Athletics

Third Prize*
Venus Supporter Membership, courtesy of Planetarium & Visualization Theater

Additional prizes provided by:

• General Support Services: Certificate for a 24" x 36" large format print that is laminated, foam-core mounted and custom-edged. Valid until May 31.
• Department of Theatre & Dance: Tickets for two to the production "When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?" Valid April 14 or 21.
• Culinary Arts & Fine Dining: Lucy Cuddy (Fine) Dining $15 Gift Certificates (2)
• Office of Sustainability: Water bottles (5)
• University Advancement: UAA t-shirts (4) and flavored popcorn (25)

If you are able to volunteer, make a contribution or have any questions about the event, please contact:

• Jessica Dyrdahl, APT Council, vice president and head of Social Committee, at jldyrdahl@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-1217; or
• Tamah Haynes, Classified Council, head of the Social Committee, at tjhaynes@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-1115.

Please note that only salary or hourly staff members are eligible to win the above prizes.

*Drawing will be held for first, second and third prizes close to 9:50 a.m. You do not need to be present to win.

UAA's Scholarship Celebration is an annual opportunity to share the amazing stories being written every day by our UAA scholarship recipients and the donors who are making their college dreams come true.

Research Poster Fair
Monday-Friday, April 15-19
UAA/APU Consortium Library, First Floor

Students whose abstracts are selected for the symposium will present their scholarly work as poster presentations.

Keynote address by John Grotzinger, Ph.D.
Tuesday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
Wendy Williamson Auditorium

Grotzinger is the project scientist for the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover "Curiosity" mission, which launched from Cape Canaveral via Atlas V rocket in November 2011 and successfully touched down on the Martian surface in August 2012.

Undergraduate Research Symposium Presentations
Friday, April 19, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Rasmuson Hall, Rooms 220 and 316

Students whose abstracts are selected for the symposium will deliver presentations on their work.

Student Poster Session and Reception
Friday, April 19, 2-3 p.m.
Rasmuson Hall, Lobby

Awards Ceremony
Friday, April 19, 3 p.m.
Rasmuson Hall, Room 101

For more information, visit the Honors College website.

Gatherings are held:
Thursdays, 12-1 p.m.
Rasmuson Hall, Room 108

Upcoming topics of discussion:
March 14: UAA Spring Break, no meeting
March 21: Plan for the future
March 28: Practice of traditions
April 4: Be independent
April 11: Never give up
April 18: Fairness
April 25: Sense of humor

April 25 will be the last meeting for the spring semester. We will have a potluck at the last gathering. Thank you for participating.

Sponsored by the College of Education, Native Student Services, Recruitment & Retention of Alaska Natives into Nursing (RRANN), Alaska Native Studies and ANROP/Cama-i Room.

For more information, call (907) 786-4000.

Join us for a talk by Alan Boraas, Ph.D., on "Fish, Family, Freedom and Sacred Water: The Salmon Cultures of Bristol Bay." Sponsored by the Anthropology Club and NPCA. There will be light refreshments.

For more information, contact Danielle Ellis at daniinak@gmail.com or (907) 230-4912.

The  Justice Center, Justice Club and the Pre-Law Society are sponsoring a series of lectures for National Criminal Justice Month in March. This is the third annual series of presentations focusing on criminal justice issues.

All events are free and open to UAA students, faculty, staff and the public. The series will be held in the UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307. Parking is free in the library surface lots.

MARCH 1

The topic for Friday, March 1 is "Working in Institutional and Community Corrections."

• Anthony Piper, Alcohol Safety Action Program (ASAP) Program Manager
• Rebecca Tozer, Probation Officer II, Alaska Department of Corrections
• Lt. Scott Dial and Sgt. Rodney Ramirez, Alaska Department of Corrections

MARCH 7

The topic for Thursday, March 7 is "Gideon v. Wainwright: Celebrating 50 Years of Public Defenders for Criminal Offenses and a Proposal for a 'Civil Gideon' "

• Prof. Richard Curtner, Federal Defender, Federal Defender’s Office
• Michael Schwaiger, Assistant Public Defender, Alaska Public Defender Agency
• Nikole Nelson, Executive Director, Alaska Legal Services Corporation

MARCH 27

The topic for Wednesday, March 27 is "Tribal Courts in Alaska: Past, Present, and Future"

• Walt Monegan, Alaska Native Justice Center CEO, Moderator
• Kevin Illingworth, Tribal Management Program Head and Assistant Professor, Interior-Aleutians Campus, UAF
• Lisa Jaeger, Tribal Government Specialist, Tanana Chiefs Conference
• Natalie Landreth, Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund
• Magistrate Judge Christopher McLain, Alaska Court System

 Visit the Justice Center blog for ongoing updates on justice matters in Anchorage and Alaska.

Relay for Life is an overnight event with the idea in mind that cancer never sleeps, so participants won't either... at least not for 24 hours. Help us FIGHT BACK against cancer. The dollars you and your team fundraise help the American Cancer Society fund groundbreaking cancer research, programs and services for cancer patients in your community.

Please join UAA's very first Relay for Life event on campus at the Wells Fargo Sports Complex Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6. Register online at www.relayforlife.org/UAA!

This event is sponsored by the UAA Colleges Against Cancer Club and the American Cancer Society.

Thursdays, Feb. 14-April 11, 1:30-7:30 p.m.
Rasmuson Hall, Room 207A

Monday, April 15, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.
University Center

Please note we are not certified to prepare:

• Schedule C (business profit and loss) other than that allowed under C-EZ rules and up to $10,000 expenses
• Complicated capital gains and/or losses without proper paperwork
• Rental properties with expenses, including depreciation
• Form 2106 (employee business expenses)
• Form 3903 (moving expenses), unless military certified
• Portions of Schedule As and Bs that are not included in our training
• Schedule K-1s that involve depreciation or expense
• Other rental or business income

If you're uncertain we are certified to do your return, please ask when you arrive.

Sponsored by UAA, College of Business and Public Policy, Accounting Department and the Internal Revenue Service. IRS-certified volunteers are accounting students and/or community members.

For more information, please email Sharlemagne at sbcook@alaska.edu.

All events are free and open to UAA students, faculty, staff and the public. Parking is free in the library surface lots.

Working in Institutional and Community Corrections
Friday, March 1, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307

• Anthony Piper, Alcohol Safety Action Program (ASAP) program manager, Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
• Rebecca Tozer, probation officer II, Alaska Department of Corrections
• Alaska Department of Corrections recruiters (TBA)

Gideon v. Wainwright: Celebrating 50 Years of Public Defenders for Criminal Offenses and a Proposal for a "Civil Gideon"
Thursday, March 7, 6:30-7 p.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307

• Professor Richard Curtner, federal defender, Federal Defender's Office
• Michael Schwaiger, assistant public defender, Alaska Public Defender Agency
• Nikole Nelson, executive director, Alaska Legal Services Corporation

Tribal Courts in Alaska: Past, Present and Future
Wednesday, March 27, 7-9 p.m. (note different start time)
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307

• Walt Monegan, Alaska Native Justice Center CEO, moderator
• Kevin Illingworth, Tribal Management Program head and assistant professor, Interior-Aleutians Campus, UAF
• Lisa Jaeger, tribal government specialist, Tanana Chiefs Conference
• Natalie Landreth, staff attorney, Native American Rights Fund
• Magistrate Judge Christopher McLain, Alaska Court System

This high-intensity two-day event focuses on deploying, integrating and using Google Apps for Education and other Google Tools to promote student learning in K-12 and higher education. The program features Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, practicing administrators, solution providers, Google engineers, and representatives from the Google education teams.

Register now to send teachers, administrators, tech directors, library media specialists, tech support staff, CTOs and anyone who is interested in finding out more about leveraging Google Apps for Education to support student learning.

Sessions include two keynote presentations, a demo slam competition and a closing capstone session, plus two full days of informative breakouts, cutting-edge demonstrations and hands-on workshops led by experienced and knowledgeable professional developers. Featured topics include:

Deployment and management of Google Apps

• Google Apps Scripts
• Google Apps for Education certification
• Chromebooks in Education
• YouTube for Schools
• Google Docs, Google Sites, Google Calendar, Gmail power tips, and more.

All presenters are Google Certified Teachers, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainers, Google Employees or teachers with local success stories.

Open to attendees from around the globe, this summit offers unique and cost-effective advantages for all participants:

• Free WiFi
• Early bird registration for $249.
• Continental breakfast and coffee with networking time and bonus sessions each day.
• Direct access to Google employees and world-class educational technology leaders.

“Captain Cook in Alaska and the North Pacific” Jim Barnett
Friday, Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m.
Room 150A

Jim Barnett is an attorney and former deputy commissioner of the Alaska Department of National Resources and elected member of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly. He currently serves as the longtime president of the Cook Inlet Historical Society. Jim will be discussing his latest book, Captain Cook in Alaska and the North Pacific.

“A Salmon Cannery in Cook Inlet,” Katie Ringsmuth
Friday, March 1, 6:30 p.m.
Room 150A

Katie Ringsmuth is a historian with the National Park Service and a history instructor at UAA in Eagle River. She will be discussing the history of a Cook Inlet salmon fishery and the multicultural and mixed gender cannery crews who labored within it. The lecture provides an overview of her book, Beacon on the Forgotten Shore: Snug Harbor Cannery, 1919-1980

“From Tents to Towers: Anchorage’s Built History,” Jo Antonson
Friday, March 8, 6:30 p.m.
Room 150A

Jo Antonson is Alaska’s State Historian, assistant State Historic Preservation Officer, and Executive Director of the Alaska Historical Society. She is the author of numerous articles and co-wrote the textbook, Alaska’s Heritage. Jo will be discussing how Anchorage evolved from a railroad construction camp to Alaska’s urban center.

“Attu Boy and the Lost Villagers project,” Rachel Mason
Friday, March 29, 6:30 p.m.
Room 150A

During WWII, Attu village residents were captured by the Japanese and taken to Hokkaido, where they were held prisoner. Dr. Rachel Mason, a cultural anthropologist at the National Park Service, will talk about her collaboration with Mr. Nick Golodoff, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese when he was six years old, and the compilation of their book, Attu Boy.

“Anchorage and the 1964 Earthquake,” Kristen Crossen
Friday, April 12, 6:30 p.m.
Room 150A

Dr. Kristine Crossen is the head of the Geology Department at UAA. She teaches numerous classes that explain how geology shapes the northern landscape, and how those geological features and forces influence the course of Alaska’s human history. Dr. Crossen’s lecture will look at how Alaska’s largest recorded earthquake transformed Anchorage nearly 50 years ago.

“The Dena’ina of Cook Inlet,” Karen Evanoff
Friday, April 26, 6:30 p.m.
Room 150A

Karen Evanoff is the editor of the book Dena’ina Elnena: a Celebration, Voices of the Dena’ina, a linguistic and cultural treasure trove of Dena’ina history. She grew up in the Lake Clark/ Lake Iliamna region of southwest Alaska, but currently resides in Eagle River where she works as the cultural anthropologist for Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.

The annual GSA Summit is a presentation of graduate student research and publications. The GSA Summit is sponsored by the Graduate Student Association and will include a panel discussion on how to apply to graduate school, a keynote speaker and presentations from several graduate students.

For more information, email the GSA at UAA_GSA@uaa.alaska.edu.

Get fit with free workout classes every Monday this semester, Jan. 7-April 29. The classes are in the insanity style: cardio interval training that is good for all ages and abilities. Join the insanity every Monday at 5:30 p.m. in the financial aid lobby in the University Center.

Free insanity fitness classes are moving from Thursday to Monday nights. They're still at 5:30 p.m. in the University Center. Classes will run through the end of fall semester, Dec. 17.

The sessions focus on interval cardio training, workouts that alternate high-intensity activity with low-intensity activity and help keep your body burning calories long after the workout. So get out and beat those Monday blues with an intense workout.