Summer 2025

Nook visits the Student Success Center in the Rasmuson Library to hand out free socks to students and staff as part of ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· Giving Day in 2025. ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· photo by Leif Van Cise.

Skiing out the door and ahead of the competition

By Sam Bishop

Kendall Kramer wraps up five years at ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· with a stellar senior season, winning the collegiate and national championship 20K freestyle races.

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Nook visits the Student Success Center in the Rasmuson Library to hand out free socks to students and staff as part of ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· Giving Day in 2025. ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· photo by Leif Van Cise.

Lighting the way: Nanook Nation powers Giving Day 2025

By Theresa Bakker and Brooke Larson

The fifth annual online event set a new participation milestone as donors supported more than 80 ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· programs, scholarships and initiatives.

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Fifty years after graduating in 1966, Alan Straub reunites with Bill Mendenhall, professor emeritus of engineering, during the ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· Alumni Association's Nanook Rendezvous reunion event in 2016.

Alan Straub: Still building up ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· after almost 60 years

By Sam Bishop

Straub created the first ice arch on campus and has stayed connected to ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· for decades out of gratitude for the people who helped him succeed.

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Wayne Donaldson 80, and his daughter Mary Feldt ’08, hiked to the top of Pillar Mountain in Kodiak, AK, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· in November 2016.

Wayne Donaldson: A legacy of service, science and steady leadership

By Katie Straub

After decades spent managing complex fisheries across the state, Donaldson turned his talents toward helping the ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· Alumni Association with its finances.

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Jason Ahrns (left) and Michael Martins (right) atop the ground station roof in Utqiagvik.

Students achieve and inspire

ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· students get involved and receive recognition for excellence in academics, leadership and service.

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ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· Alumni Association board members tour the ºÚÁϺÚÀúÊ· Student Success Center

Class notes and in memoriam

See what ºÚÁϺÚÀúʷ’s alumni have been doing, and remember those no longer with us.

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