University of Alaska Southeast News

Link: Ketchikan Daily News - Students and faculty at the Ketchikan campus of the University of Alaska Southeast are experimenting with quick-cooled oysters in a search for ways to reduce shipping costs for Southeast oyster growers.

Tribe, moiety: Tlingit, Eagle . Residency: Douglas. Positions: Director of the Preparing Indigenous Teachers and Administrators for Alaska's schools program at the University of Alaska Southeast, shareholder of Cook Inlet Region Inc.

The University of Alaska Southeast has announced a new course to be offered at its Auke Bay Campus beginning next semester.

Politics are constraining the state's predator control program, which is sorely missing some sound science, according to wildlife biologist Vic Van Ballenberghe.

A new science research lab in Juneau received funding this month when President Obama signed a bill that includes $5 million for the U.S. Forest Service project.

Juneau-Douglas High School teacher Craig Mapes received the Alaska Construction Academy's Instructor Excellence Award on Thursday.

"Auto is a hands-on class, but they hand you a book and say 'Good luck.'" - Glenn Hoskinson, senior at Juneau-Douglas High School Imagine taking a chef class and only being able to use the oven once or twice a week.

I am always willing to admit when I make a mistake. I recently submitted an opinion piece accusing the University of Alaska Southeast of neglecting Veteran's Day.

Former Juneau resident Harold A. Arab died Nov. 1, 2009, in Honolulu. He was 66.

As a student, Julie Thatcher was pretty sure her business would be popular with the college set when she opened a restaurant in 2004 less than a mile from the university campus.

An updated city plan a year in the making calls for a bikeway across Juneau, paved shoulder lanes for pedestrians and bicyclists, bike lanes on Glacier Highway and crosswalks in Lemon Creek among its 18 priorities.

When Shawna Jordan was 15, she walked out on her abusive father. That was three years ago in Anchorage.

The Juneau World Affairs Council will hold their annual world affairs forum Monday and Tuesday, focusing this year on the Middle East.

In class: Cliff Walker, center, and Jayson Bitterman, left, listen to instructor Forrest Cooper demonstrate taking apart and cleaning a jack leg drill Thursday at the Maggie Kathleen Mine during the University of Alaska Southeast mining training course.

Humpback whale scientist Dr. Fred Sharpe will present "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Herring," at 7 p.m. Thursday at the University of Alaska Southeast Egan Lecture Hall, as a benefit for the Whale Project, which will place a Skip Wallen life-scale breeching humpback whale and fountain on Juneau's waterfront.

Water walking, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Augustus Brown Swimming Pool. Low-impact water exercise class.

Recently, Dr. Riki Ott gave a presentation at the University of Alaska Southeast, and I missed it.

For the past 10, Jan Haynes has taught at the same school, this year in the universal preschool.

The University of Alaska Southeast Fisheries Technology Program is offering a 2-credit special topics class, to be held in Sitka Nov.

Having recently attended "Not One Drop: Why it's not okay to drill, drill, drill", an Evening at Egan Lecture featuring Dr.