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ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼'s Kurgat honored by Alaska Legislature

 |  Jess  |  ,

ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ student-athlete Caroline Kurgat was honored last week with a legislative citation from the state of Alaska. The Thirty-First Alaska State Legislature members congratulate Kurgat for her outstanding athletic ability and dedication to excellence.

Portrait of Mark Heinrichs Read More

The Road Less Taken: Mark Heinrichs on Forging a New Career

 |  Henry Randolph  | 

Have you ever contemplated a career change? It’s a big move forPortrait of Legal studies student Mark Heinrichs anybody—particularly if you’re more than a few years into your current career. It can be risky, intimidating and hard to even know where to start.

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Student Spotlight: Laura Eagle On the Pathway to Empowerment

 |  Melissa Green  | 

Laura Eagle knows how difficult it can be when life takes unexpected turns. She wants to use her paralegal studies classes—and a budding career in the court system—to empower her family and her community.

Tyler Morris Read More

Taking a leap of faith from courthouse to hospital

 |  Matt Jardin  | 

How do you follow up four years of studying justice and history? If you’re anything like Tyler Morris, you go back to pursue nursing science.

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Totem Rising: The making of a doctor and a life full of meaning

 |  UW Medicine  | 

Stephen Ellison is only 31 years old, but you could say his story begins thousands of years ago among a handful of Alaska Native villages on Prince of Wales Island, located halfway between Seattle and Anchorage. It wasn’t until the birth of his daughter, Bella, in Juneau, that he really began to pay attention to what doctors do. A year later, he called up family physician Taylor Dunn, M.D. ’99, the doctor who delivered Bella, to ask if he could shadow him.