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Portrait of Troy Payne Read More

Justice Center's Troy Payne leads new virtual conference with international reach

 |  Ahliil Saitanan  | 

Dr. Troy C. Payne, an associate professor in the Justice Center, recently was part of a group of professors from various higher-learning institutions that led CrimCon­â€”short for Criminology Consortium, a nonprofit corporation—an academic criminology and criminal justice conference held virtually from Nov. 18 to 20.

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Research and Initiatives at the College: Fall 2020

 |  Henry Randolph  | 

Updates about research studies, projects and community partnerships across the College of Health.

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Research and Initiatives at the College: Fall 2020

 |  Henry Randolph  | 

Updates about research studies, projects and community partnerships across the College of Health.

Contact Tracing with Annie Thomas for the Podcast in Place, Youth Stories from Quarantine Read More

Podcast in Place: Youth Stories From Quarantine – Episode 27: Contact Tracing with Annie Thomas

 |  Alaska Teen Media Institute  |  ,

Contact tracing is an essential part of combating the spread of Covid-19. Not only do contact tracers work to discover where a person infected with the coronavirus may have contracted it, they also attempt to inform others about possible infection. But there is a lot more to the complicated work that they do. In this episode we’ll be hearing from Annie Thomas. She’s been a nurse for about fifteen years, and currently she is the project manager for the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Surge Contact Tracing team. She is also the owner of Managing Me Enterprises which does retreats for teens to help them build community cohesion and resilience.

Students make their way up a wall as Alaska Rock Gym operations manager and ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ recreation course instructor Eric Wickenheiser teaches Beginning Indoor Sport Climbing (PER A148) at the Alaska Rock Gym in Anchorage. (Photo by James Evans / ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼) Read More

Slideshow: On the wall with ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼'s Beginning Indoor Sport Climbing students

 |  James Evans  |  ,

During a recent class at the Alaska Rock Gym, students in Physical Education & Recreation A148 practiced the fundamentals of indoor sport climbing, from knots and rope handling to bouldering and descent techniques.