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"Ask a мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± Expert" shares faculty expertise relevant to what we're experiencing with COVID-19. Recent video segments address cultural impacts of pandemics, COVID-19 risks to older adults, media coverage of the pandemic, health messaging and more.

Epidemiologic modeling with Alaska data provides support for new measures implemented by state and municipal leaders to "flatten the curve" and buy additional time for preparation.

Recent headlines have forced many Alaskans to think about the effects of coronavirus for the first time. But for a team of мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± researchers led by Associate Professor Eric Bortz, studying coronavirus has been all in a day’s work for more than 15 years.

In 2006, an undergraduate student in the Andes Mountains of Colombia made the astonishing discovery of 200 nearly perfectly fossilized comma shrimp. мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± Biological Sciences Professor Sarah Gerken, the United States’ resident expert in the field, has been working with him ever since to determine their mysterious death.

During мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± Department of Physics and Astronomy Professor Dr. Travis Rector's 2018 sabbatical, he split his time between Arizona and Chile working on a telescope project decades in the making. Rector hopes that мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± students will be some of the first to get their hands on the groundbreaking data the telescope provides.

Fact: You cannot stop corrosion. But according to assistant professor in mechanical engineering Raghu Srinivasan, you can study it and mitigate its effects, which is what the award-winning professor is doing in his lab and on top of мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±â€™s Engineering and Computation Building’s parking garage.

For the past two years, recent мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± alumnus Seth Campbell has worked on ICECON, a project commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to assist the U.S. Coast Guard in determining ship travel and safety on the Great Lakes. He's now handing the baton to мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± engineering student Kelsey Frazier for part two of the project, Arctic ICECON.

Squirrels typically aren’t thought of as a good inspiration for comic book superpowers, but мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± biology professor Khrys Duddleston is set to change that.

For the past 27 years, мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± dance professor Jill Flanders Crosby has been working on a project spanning generations, mediums and even the Atlantic Ocean.

мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½± junior Henrique Miller recently received the Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious honor awarded to students pursuing careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. He hopes that one day his research will contribute to the field of plasma nuclear fusion.