Allison Heaslet, Author at ANSEP: Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program

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

Posted on March 7, 2023 (March 7, 2023)

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 […]

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

Posted on February 14, 2023 (February 14, 2023)

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 […]

Dr. Herb Schroeder accepts Partner Service Award from AISES

Posted on October 21, 2022 (October 21, 2022)

At the AISES National Conference earlier this month, ANSEP Vice Provost and Founder Dr. Herb Schroeder was awarded the Educator Partner Service award! This award recognizes a program for their AISES advocacy and their excellent guidance, leadership, and expertise to support indigenous students and professionals in STEM! What started in 1995 as a scholarship program for university students, […]

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

Posted on October 13, 2022 (October 13, 2022)

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 […]

Sam Bailey (ANSEP Alumni) Innovates with Leadership and Education

Posted on August 17, 2022 (August 17, 2022)

Twenty years ago, Sam Bailey envisioned a career spent in classrooms, inspiring and guiding curious students through the fascinating and frustrating universe of mathematics. Instead, Sam fueled his passion for teaching – and learning – as supervisor of Alyeska’s brilliant-and-busy automation engineering team. Sam’s team is responsible for automation aspects of Alyeska’s operations, on the […]

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

Posted on August 9, 2022 (August 17, 2022)

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, […]

ANSEP Intern, Nadia Barcelona, working on sleeper shark research

Posted on July 12, 2022 (August 17, 2022)

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 […]

Homer student, Alivia Fefelov, attends ANSEP program

Posted on July 12, 2022 (August 17, 2022)

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 […]

STEM Stories: Recognizing iconic women in STEM during Women’s History Month

Posted on March 2, 2022 (March 2, 2022)

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 […]

ANSEP’s Janelle Anausuk Sharp Studies Arctic Sinkholes

Posted on February 11, 2022 (February 11, 2022)

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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