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Her hometown is a coastal area of Western Alaska near Nome, where she returns from school to hunt, fish and enjoy friends and family. Her home away from home, however, is the stage of an opera. Meet мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± music performance student Kira Eckenweiler.

Thought the planetarium was just for stargazers? Nope. On Jan. 17, the мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± Planetarium and Visualization Theater will premiere its first full-dome feature film about the brown bears at McNeil River State Game Sanctuary. Read more about River of Bears.

This year, the Student Phonathon Program marked two important milestones: They celebrated their 10th anniversary and reached the $1 million fundraising milestone. Meet team member Alix Oyler.

Meet Libby Roderick, associate director of CAFE. Find out how this lifelong Alaskan and activist is sowing the seeds for a better tomorrow.

Alaska Airlines honors мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± and UAF by painting two of its Bombardier Q400s for the Seawolves and Nanooks. The colorful planes will arrive in Alaska's skies in March 2014 and will fly between Anchorage and Fairbanks and Anchorage and Kodiak.

Jim Murphy, a мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± economics professor and Rasmuson Chair, and Nobel laureate Vernon Smith, also a мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± Rasmuson Chair, recently used a game to bring economics to life for Steller Secondary students.

Steve is a fresh, new face for Seawolf Hockey this year as director of hockey operations. And shhhhhhhhh…we stole him from our Northern rivals, where he spent his college career as a Nanook goalie and psychology student.

Nontraditional students can get help with tuition, thanks to a мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± professor emerita's new scholarship option.

Want to get off the couch and out onto the running trails? мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±'s Student Health and Counseling Center debuted a Couch-to-5K program for students this fall and it will be back in the spring.

Answering a call for highly skilled leaders from the major players in Alaska’s economy, мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± is developing a focused program of study in leadership for M.B.A. students. Two new faculty members are helping to roll it out this year.