Kwethluk, Alaska When budget cuts hit Mt. Edgecumbe High School in 2014, Mattias Hautala, among many other academically advanced students, lost the opportunity to take the college courses in Sitka, Alaska. This is just one of the many reasons why students in rural Alaska struggle to earn college degrees. These educational challenges often carry over […]
Fairbanks, Alaska (Photo courtesy of JR Ancheta, University of Alaska Fairbanks) As an honor graduate from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF); president of the university’s American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) and Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE); and future ConocoPhillips Alaska engineer, it’s hard to believe Stefan Weingarth was raised in a small […]
Fairbanks, Alaska Shamariah Hale considers herself a true small-town Alaskan. A 23-year-old Athabascan from Fairbanks, she is the oldest of three girls and just graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with her bachelor’s degree from the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Shamariah is one of the first in her family to earn a […]
Kotzebue, Alaska Stefanie Armstrong is not your typical college student. Iñupiaq Eskimo from Kotzebue, she is a mother of two and now also an engineer. On May 3, Stefanie walked across the stage at the University of Alaska Anchorage commencement ceremony and received her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, which is something she’d promised herself […]
