2008 Woodie Awards
Rebekah Moras insists she's an average student. She dropped out of high school in favor of traveling to Switzerland in her teens, and then earned her GED when she was 20 and enrolled at UAA. This year she was awarded a Fulbright teaching scholarship - one of the most highly regarded scholarships in the country.
The USUAA Recycling Committee does its part to make UAA a greener campus, but it decided it could do more and took another look at the vehicle it uses to transport recycled material from campus to the recycling center. "One of our crew mentioned running a vehicle off vegetable oil, kind of joking about it," USUAA Recycling Committee director Tyler Morris said.
It's not a society or a last-minute addition to a diploma. And now, UAA Honors is no longer a program. It's a college. In March 2007, UAA's University Honors Program received approval to change its name and structure to the University Honors College.
Tap Root Café is tucked away off Huffman Road with something unique to offer the Anchorage community, including organic and creative food items and performances by bluegrass and folk music acts.
If there's a wizarding community in the Anchorage area, no doubt they'll spend July 21 staying as far away from us nonmagical folk as possible. But for that half of the Western world that's fallen under the spell of this young wizard and his friends (or enemies, if your tastes run that way), there are plenty of options in town for celebrating the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.