The School of International Relations and Public Administration (SIRPA) at the National University of Mongolia (NUM) conveyed an honorary doctorate to Professor John Duffy, Ph.D., of the University of Alaska Anchorage, on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019.
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Diane Sleszynski's commute from Lutz, Florida, to Anchorage is 3,700 miles one way and takes roughly 20 hours, and that’s if the layovers are generous. Despite the hefty price tag and time commitment, Sleszynski is more than happy to pay it.
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ISER’s Jennifer Schmidt gave presentations at the recent Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromso, Norway on the role of technology in remote Arctic communities and how harvesting wood for fuel impacts subsistence.
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Nils Rygaard’s comfort as a leader extends beyond the ice and into the classroom as a business management major with an economics minor. While the boardroom is almost certain to follow, he will already have had years of experience adapting his hockey captain approach for positions outside of the rink.
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Natural resource rich economics tend to grow slowly, but why? Researchers have theorized that natural resources can shine other sectors of the economy, induce political corruption, and even civil conflict. But new data and statistical techniques suggest that natural resources can fuel economic growth and offers a more nuanced view of the so-called “curse of natural resources.”
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