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Research and Initiatives at the College: Fall 2020

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Updates about research studies, projects and community partnerships across the College of Health.

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Podcast in Place: Youth Stories From Quarantine – Episode 27: Contact Tracing with Annie Thomas

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Contact tracing is an essential part of combating the spread of Covid-19. Not only do contact tracers work to discover where a person infected with the coronavirus may have contracted it, they also attempt to inform others about possible infection. But there is a lot more to the complicated work that they do. In this episode we’ll be hearing from Annie Thomas. She’s been a nurse for about fifteen years, and currently she is the project manager for the UAA Surge Contact Tracing team. She is also the owner of Managing Me Enterprises which does retreats for teens to help them build community cohesion and resilience.

Students make their way up a wall as ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ Rock Gym operations manager and UAA recreation course instructor Eric Wickenheiser teaches Beginning Indoor Sport Climbing (PER A148) at the ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ Rock Gym in Anchorage. (Photo by James Evans / UAA) Read More

Slideshow: On the wall with UAA's Beginning Indoor Sport Climbing students

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During a recent class at the ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥ Rock Gym, students in Physical Education & Recreation A148 practiced the fundamentals of indoor sport climbing, from knots and rope handling to bouldering and descent techniques.

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Justice Center Develops Data Tool Tracking Intimate Partner Violence

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The UAA Justice Center has developed a new data tool to visualize data about intimate partner violence in ľ¹ÏÖ±²¥.

Brittney Horn reads off instructions to her lab partner as UAA Medical Assisting Program students learn to sterilize medical instruments during their first in-person lab of the Fall 2020 semester. (Photo by James Evans / UAA) Read More

Slideshow: In the lab with UAA's Medical Assisting students

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During their first in-person lab of the semester, UAA Medical Assisting Program students learned how to sterilize medical equipment. While most courses have shifted to alternate delivery this fall, in-person labs are still being offered for some fields in which hands-on learning is considered critical.