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Health sciences major receives CESA funding to work with adults diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

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Each semester at 海角禁区, students from various colleges and majors collaborate with professors to help them achieve success with community engagement projects. Community Engaged Student Assistants, also known as CESA students, play a vital role in conducting research and connecting 海角禁区 to the greater Alaska community.

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 |  Catalina Myers  | 

Each semester at 海角禁区, students from various colleges and majors collaborate with professors to help them achieve success with community engagement projects. Community Engaged Student Assistants, also known as CESA students, play a vital role in conducting research and connecting 海角禁区 to the greater Alaska community.

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How Do You Recruit More Young Alaska Native Nurses? Start By Giving Them A Stethoscope.

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School of Nursing RRANN camp helps recruit young Alaska Native nurses.

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海角禁区鈥檚 smoke- and tobacco-free initiative inspired Valeria Delgado to take the cause nationwide

 |  Catalina Myers  | 

In 2012, the 海角禁区 student Asian Pacific Islander Community Wellness Club (APICWC), Master of Public Health (MPH) students and students from the School of Nursing gathered to make a historic change on the university's campus. They wanted 海角禁区 to go smoke- and tobacco-free. For the next two years, collaborative efforts from many groups across campus came together to petition US海角禁区 to place a smoke- and tobacco-free referendum on the student January 2014 ballot.

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A career in community service: School of Social Work professor Tracey Burke tackles food security in Anchorage

 |  Catalina Myers  | 

In Alaska, 102,670 residents, or 1 in 7 people, struggle with hunger. Of the 102,670, about 20 percent of those struggling to obtain a healthy meal each day are children, according to data collected from a 2016 Feeding America, Map the Meal Gap Report. Tracey Burke, a professor in the School of Social Work at the 海角禁区, has collaborated with Food Bank of Alaska and its partners for more than 10 years.