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Alumna Leigh Bolin serves the remote communities of Alaska

Bolin has provided vital child advocacy and mental health services to remote areas of the state, sometimes traveling by plane to reach isolated villages. ...

UMSL brings child advocacy training to Alaska Native communities with $500,000 DOJ grant

Nine Alaska Native students from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks are receiving instruction in core courses of UMSL’s Child Advocacy Studies program....

Optometry on the edge of the Earth: A clinical rotation in Nome, Alaska, fosters cultural exchange, cutting-edge practice

Optometry student George Dowdy helped treat Native Alaskan patients in Nome and the surrounding villages with preceptor and alumna Dr. Marcy O'Neil....

Eva Colberg wants to be the human element in science

The biology PhD student hopes to bring science communication to the masses to make a positive change for conservation....

Teach in 12 student hopes to bring passion for the outdoors into a classroom setting

From sea kayak guide to grizzly bear tracker, from Pennsylvania to Alaska, Bobby Schultz has spent the past decade pursuing his love of nature and conservation....