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With new UAA program, Alaskans can stay in state to become pharmacists

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Starting next year, Alaskans can become pharmacists without having to leave the state thanks to a new partnership between the University of Alaska Anchorage and Idaho State University.

UAA announced Tuesday that students can apply to the joint pharmacy program — the university’s latest effort to produce more graduates with specific degrees in hopes that they stay in Alaska and join the state’s workforce. Between 10 and 15 first-year students will begin their schooling through the program next fall and hopefully graduate four years later as homegrown pharmacists, said Tom Wadsworth, ISU assistant dean of Alaska programs. Read the full ADN article here.

Research: What Compels People to Fish in Bristol Bay?

DillinghamHarbor2DILLINGHAM: A group of researchers is trying to figure out what draws people to the Bristol Bay fishery and what new entrants need to get involved. For students in the region, they’re finding that it’s often all about family.

For the past year or so, University of Alaska Fairbanks doctoral student Jesse Coleman has been studying what compels people to fish in Bristol Bay, from the youngest participants to the oldest. One part of her project surveyed students in Dillingham, Togiak, Kokhanok and the Bristol Bay Borough to get their take on commercial fishing. Read more…

October Alaska Economic Trends

Trends_Oct2015October Trends looks at how wage distribution has changed over the past 25 years. Overall, our median wage has gone down as the shares of workers in lower-earning brackets have grown. Also this month we profile Alaska pilots and the rise in coffee shops in the state. Finally, we look at how national recessions affect moves to and from Alaska and see whether the last decade’s recession followed historical patterns.

University of Alaska Fairbanks – One of Five Schools to Receive Mine Safety Grant

MSHA awards $1M in mine safety grants in five states

ARLINGTON, Va. – Thein-a-coal-mine-photograph-photograph-safety-sign-in-a-coal-mine-900x702 U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today awarded $1 million through its Brookwood-Sago grants program to seven organizations that provide education and training within the mining industry. The funding will develop and implement training and related materials for mine emergency preparedness, and help prevent accidents in underground mines. Click here to read the full announcement.