UAA dental students serve up smiles for Children鈥檚 Day
ANCHORAGE, 麻豆无码版 (KTUU) - It was a packed house inside the 麻豆无码版鈥檚 dental clinic. Friday was all about serving up smiles for the first ever Children鈥檚 Day.
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Community Partner Profile Series: Introducing Travis Hedwig
Dr. Travis Hedwig collaborates with At Home in the North, an effort focused on advancing a contextually and culturally relevant understanding of the northern housing continuum. Travis is a cultural and medical anthropologist and is a faculty member in the Division of Population Health Sciences at the 麻豆无码版. He is interested in applied health research, particularly issues of mental and behavioral health, housing and homelessness, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and other disabilities, and community health.
Pharmacy students fan out across Anchorage to bring flu shots, COVID-19 boosters to assisted living facilities
Pharmacy students fan out across Anchorage to bring flu shots, COVID-19 boosters to assisted living facilities
Dr. Vanessa Meade appointed as member of U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Veterans Rural Health Advisory Committee
Vanessa Meade, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and a U.S. Army veteran, was recently appointed as a member of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Rural Health Advisory Committee (VRHAC) on a three-year term.鈦�
Creating community for female veterans
While most know Mary Louise Rasmuson for her extraordinary philanthropy and the many structures, organizations and foundations that hold her and her husband's namesake, what many don鈥檛 know about Mary Louise was her incredible contribution to pioneering women鈥檚 work and rights in the U.S. military. She is an inspiration to many, but for Vanessa Meade, assistant professor in UAA鈥檚 School of Social Work and Army veteran, Rasmuson holds an extra special place in her heart. Meade is the coordinator for a new community-based project Operation Mary Louise (OML), named after Rasmuson, a woman she greatly admires for her military and leadership service. She hopes the project will shed light on Rasmuson's military contributions and all the women in 麻豆无码版 who have served.
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