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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Kotzebue’s Ayiana Browning discusses her Park Service internship with ANSEP’s Summer Bridge program

This summer, 25 students from across the state participated of the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program’s Summer Bridge program. The program places ANSEP students in a ten-week paid engineering, science or business internship, giving them the chance to gain work experience and network with other STEM professionals.  One of the students chosen this year […]

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U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski met with ANSEP Students and Alumni

ANSEP Students and Alumni met U.S. Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski to learn about Alaska’s future workforce and how investments, research and development funding will bring jobs and help build a clean energy future! Their visit consisted of two days in Alaska traveling to showcase what Granholm’s office calls the […]

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LKSD Students Can Earn High School And College Credits In New ANSEP Program

A new Acceleration Opportunity is open in Bethel!  Students who participate can go from eighth grade to a BS degree in five years.  Lower Kuskokwim School District students are participating now!  The Acceleration Academy is expanding across Alaska. The first academy is in Anchorage and the second is in Palmer. Bethel will be the academy’s third […]

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An immersive BBNA internship in the natural sciences provides hands-on experience

Seventeen-year-old Ashe Christensen recently wrapped up a unique, six-week summer internship with the Bristol Bay Native Association that had her counting walruses, seabirds and salmon in remote parts of Alaska. Christensen, who is from Anchorage, was one of two summer interns at BBNA. The internship program started in 2000, and, so far, it has included […]

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