Alaska Airlines offers new hands-on learning experience for ANSEP students

Alaska Airlines, a longtime strategic partner of ANSEP (Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program), is offering a new opportunity to ANSEP middle and high schoolers through hands-on simulations that will introduce students to the aviation industry and the diverse career opportunities that exist for them through the pursuit of a STEM education. Strategic partners like […]

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Dr. Sarah Evans receives CAREER award from National Science Foundation to work with ANSEP students

Funding to support ongoing permafrost research, K–12 education collaborations Dr. Sarah Evans, a quantitative hydrogeologist and an assistant professor in App State’s Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences (GES), has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF’s CAREER is a foundationwide activity that offers the NSF’s most prestigious […]

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Kotzebue student combines high-school and college education through Acceleration Academy

For a 10-th grader Beck Nordlum, this school year marks a new educational opportunity: taking high-school classes and getting college credits toward a bachelor’s degree simultaneously. Originally from Kotzebue, Nordlum is participating in the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program’s Acceleration Academy component — a program that allows students to complete their high school graduation […]

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ANSEP students prepare for college and careers with paid STEM internships in Alaska and across the U.S.

This summer, 21 students from across Alaska are participating in the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program’s Summer Bridge opportunity, which places recent high school graduates in paid science, engineering or business internships with ANSEP strategic partners. Over the course of 10 weeks, students are preparing for college and future STEM careers by getting hands-on, […]

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ANSEP Intern, Nadia Barcelona, working on sleeper shark research

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, attends ANSEP program

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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ANSEP alum and current team leader talks experiences, expansion of program

This coverage originally aired on Alaska’s News Source on June 21, 2022. Through the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program, which welcomes students from across Alaska, young people can explore STEM careers and earn college credits in the process. The full coverage can be viewed here on the Alaska’s News Source website. […]

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Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program to expand high school component

This story was written by Katie Anastas and published online by Alaska Public Media. Listen to this story as part of Alaska Nightly News. The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program at the University of Alaska has received $5 million to expand its high school component to Dillingham, Kotzebue and Juneau. The program’s Acceleration Academy […]

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Engineering professor fosters university community for Alaska Native students: ‘It’s full circle’

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 […]

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