ANSEP’s Janelle Anausuk Sharp Studies Arctic Sinkholes

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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Alaska Native students strive for representation in engineering programs

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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Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program’s Acceleration Academy concludes successful first semester in Bethel

BETHEL, Alaska — The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program’s full-time Acceleration Academy (Bethel) completed a successful first semester with 20 students from the Lower Kuskokwim School District earning a total of 216 college credits. Introduced in fall 2021, this component gives students the unique opportunity to get their high school diploma while simultaneously earning […]

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