This summer, AOOS is supporting a student from the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program to work on a sleeper shark research project under the direction of Dr. Markus Horning. The intern, Nadia Barcelona, will be sending regular notes from the field. Here are her first field notes from “Sleeper Sharks: Episode 1” Hey everyone! My […]
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Homer student Alivia Fefelov has been spending part of her summer participating in the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program’s Acceleration Academy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Through the program, students further their education and improve their future with access to advanced academic and professional opportunities. According to a press release, in the Acceleration […]
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March is Women’s History Month and ANSEP proudly supports the women in STEM who are breaking down barriers and achieving success. Women in STEM According to the National Girls Collaborative Project, women represent half of the U.S. college-educated workforce but only 29 percent of the STEM workforce. Perhaps even more staggering, only 15 percent of all […]
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Janelle Anausuk Sharp, ANSEP Regional Director for the Anchorage Acceleration Academy, and a team of scientists researched a large lake in Alaska that is bubbling with methane! PBS’s Nova television science series “Arctic Sinkholes” followed them this summer as they worked to understand where these bubbles are coming from and how much gas is being released. As the Arctic […]
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Mission Unstoppable with Miranda Cosgrove on CBS featured ANSEP Summer Bridge students Amara Sanguni and Maya Woods! Interning with the U.S. Forest Service this past summer, they worked with USFS project engineer, Tchelet Segev to survey the land and restore the wetlands at Moose Flats. Watch the full video below! […]
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Michele Yatchmeneff discovered engineering when she was 17 years old after her professor pointed out that she was good at math. “I had met a chemistry teacher, and he said, ‘You’d be good at engineering’, and at first I didn’t even know what engineering was,” Yatchmeneff said. “I thought it was the person that sits […]
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Michele Yatchmeneff knew she wanted to be an engineer from the time she was a teenager. Yatchmeneff grew up in False Pass and King Cove, in the eastern Aleutians. She was raised in an Unangax̂ household, living a subsistence lifestyle. Right after high school, she enrolled in engineering classes at the University of Alaska Fairbanks […]
This summer, 25 students from across the state participated of the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program’s Summer Bridge program. The program places ANSEP students in a ten-week paid engineering, science or business internship, giving them the chance to gain work experience and network with other STEM professionals. One of the students chosen this year […]
ANSEP Students and Alumni met U.S. Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski to learn about Alaska’s future workforce and how investments, research and development funding will bring jobs and help build a clean energy future! Their visit consisted of two days in Alaska traveling to showcase what Granholm’s office calls the […]
On August 13th, ANSEP students and their families attended ANSEP Aviation Day and toured the Boeing 737-9 ecoDemonstrator at the Alaska Airlines hangar. They were able to learn from experts in the field of science, engineering and aviation about how the ecoDemonstrator accelerates innovation by improving maintenance efficiency, enhancing safety, reducing waste and informing climate […]
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