Should all Alaska university educators, researchers and scientists be required to attend an Alaska Native-designed and run cultural orientation program? The University of Alaska Anchorage Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) and the UAA APU Engaging Controversy Project hosted a public debate and discussion surrounding this important question. This free event took place on Oct. 10 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the UAA APU Consortium Library, room 307.

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If you missed the musical satire How Could Anyone Lead UAA? presented last spring, check out the video preview below. The satire features performances by UAA faculty and staff about the fun and humor of life at UAA.

The satire was written by faculty and staff with musical accompaniment by the Fabulous Van Clifton. It features Dawn Berg, Doug Causey, Minty Cochran, Steve Colt, Jan Gehler, Mari Hahn, Jim Liszka, Tom Miller, Kerri Morris, Jane Park, Libby Roderick, Bryan Talbott-Clark, Barb Tullis, Wendy Withrow and others.

A DVD of the performance is available for donation through CAFE. Proceeds go to the UAA Sustainability Fund.

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On Oct. 3, 2007 Professor Spatz and AQR were featured prominently on Radio National’s Book Show (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Titled “Off the Beaten Track with the Alaska Quarterly Review,” the interview covered AQR’s 25th anniversary and other subjects.

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Mary Ellen Gordian, an associate professor of environmental health at ISER, presents Thirty Years Later: Evaluating the Health of Construction Workers on Amchitka Island During and After Atomic Bomb Testing. Dr. Gordian talks about the interesting results of a follow-up study on atomic bomb tests conducted in the Aleutian Islands.

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Howard Weaver, former Anchorage Daily News editor and current vice president for news for The McClatchy Company, visited the University of Alaska Anchorage on Friday, September 21 and presented a lecture entitled Information Saturation: Sustaining a place for journalism in a ubiquitous media world.
Weaver’s lecture evaluated mass media in transition – how the norms of yesterday (mass circulation newspapers, licensed monopoly broadcast stations, etc.) have given way to an unsettled present and uncertain future. “Information” clearly has been transformed; is the same true about what we call “journalism,” the process of sorting, filtering, verifying and prioritizing? Perhaps equally important, what does the changing economic landscape, which tends to separate advertising revenue from news content, mean for the future of news gathering?
This lecture was brought to you by the University Honors Program.

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