Published May 13, 2023 by Alaska Native

This year, the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program is proud to announce the largest-ever graduating class of its full-time, academic year Acceleration Academy opportunity. Twenty-eight students from the Anchorage, Bethel, Matanuska-Susitna and residential campuses will earn their high school diplomas when they graduate this May 2023. Along with their degree, the 28 students will be leaving Acceleration Academy with a total of 1,216 college credits, with one student earning a whopping 94 college credits during their high school career. 

Published May 13, 2023 by Francisco Martínezcuello

The Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center in Bethel was full of friends, family, and community leaders on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. They gathered to celebrate the latest graduates from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Kuskokwim Campus.

This year, the president, chancellor, vice chancellor, and members of the board of regents of the University of Alaska Fairbanks attended. Bethel Regional High School’s Junior ROTC presented the colors and were followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and introductory remarks by Kuskokwim Campus Director Carolyn Goolsby.

Published May 15, 2023

Researchers from University of Oulu, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and University of Alaska Anchorage are studying warm and moist atmospheric water vapour rivers, and their sources and impacts on Arctic snow and ice to better predict future weather and climate.

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet, and when ice disappears from the Arctic, the effects do not stop there, but percolate throughout the Nordic countries, Western Europe and North America.

Published May 13, 2023 by Alaska Beacon

On Thursday, Alaska Airlines unveiled a new design that replaced the Salmon Thirty Salmon art known by many Alaskans. The new art still features salmon, but this time from an Indigenous perspective. Crystal Worl, Tlingit artist and business owner from Juneau, created the new design in the style of formline art.

To come up with the title for the new plane design, Worl reached out to X?’unei Lance Twitchell, a Tlingit language speaker and professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast, for advice on what the name should be.

“There must be a million different ways in our language that mean ‘our relationship between salmon,’” Worl said. “So he got back to me with some options, and we narrowed it down to X?áat ?wáani, ‘salmon people,’ because of its translation of how people are connected and relate and benefit from salmon.”