- Fran Ulmer
Fran Ulmer , in her 20 years of elected state service, has been an advocate for the Alaska State Ferries, as is evident in the legislative bill she introduced that helped fund the M/V Kennicott. As governor, she will continue to fight for a healthy state ferry system that is essential to a healthy state economy. Fran Ulmer also understands the concerns of working Alaska families and believes all workers deserve good jobs with good wages and benefits. - Bob Bartlett
Edward Lewis "Bob" Bartlett (April 20, 1904 - December 11, 1968) was an American politician, and was a member of the Democratic Party. Bartlett was born in Seattle, Washington. After graduating from the University of Alaska in 1925, Bartlett began his career in politics. A reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News until 1933, he accepted the position of secretary to Delegate Anthony Dimond of Alaska. - William Ransom Wood
William Ransom Wood (b. February 3, 1907- d. February 25, 2001) was an influential figure in the history of the University of Alaska and of Fairbanks, Alaska. Wood was born near Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois. He was an Episcopalian. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He became vice president of the University of Nevada. - Mark R. Hamilton
Mark R. Hamilton is the current president of the University of Alaska. - James Wickersham
James Wickersham (August 24, 1857-1939) was a district judge for Alaska, appointed by President McKinley to the Third Judicial District in 1900. He resigned his post in 1908 and was subsequently elected as Alaska's delegate to Congress, serving until 1917 and then being re-elected in 1930. He was instrumental in the passage of the Organic Act of 1912, which granted Alaska territorial status, introduced the Alaska Railroad Bill, legislation to establish McKinley Park, … - Scott Gomez
Scott Gomez (born December 23, 1979, in Anchorage, Alaska) is an American professional ice hockey player of both Mexican and Colombian descent. He plays the position of center for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League. - Mark Myers
Mark Myers is an American geologist. Myers became the fourteenth Director of the US Geological Survey (USGS) on 26 September 2006 after confirmation by the US Senate. Myers had previously worked as head of Alaska's Division of Oil and Gas, resigning along with five others in late 2005 as a protest over Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski's negotiations with oil companies to build a natural gas pipeline. - Margaret Murie
Margaret "Mardy" Thomas Murie was the enabling force behind the passage of the Wilderness Act in the United States and the protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She was known as the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement". Mardy Murie was born in Seattle, Washington in 1902 and then moved to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1911. Murie was the first woman to graduate from the University of Alaska in 1924. - Dana Stabenow
Dana Stabenow (born March 27 1952) is an American author who has produced science fiction, mystery and most recently a novel based on modern piracy and international terrorism. Many of Stabenow's books are set in her home state of Alaska, where she was raised by her single mother who lived and worked on a fish tender in the Gulf of Alaska. Stabenow received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alaska in 1973 and, after deciding to try her hand as an author, … - Chris Lott
Chris Lott (b. October 23, 1970) was the co-founder of Eclectica Magazine along with Tom Dooley (editor) in 1996. Chris was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, and bounced around between Fairbanks and Tok, Alaska before graduating from Tok High School in 1988. - Chancy Croft
Chancy Croft is an attorney and politician from Anchorage, Alaska. Croft was born in Odessa, Texas and graduated at the University of Texas School of Law. Croft was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1969 till 1971 and of the Alaska State Senate from 1971 till 1978. He was a member of the University of Alaska Board of Regents from 1995 till 2003, which he chaired from 2001 to 2002. He also is a former Democratic candidate for governor of Alaska. - Seth Kantner
Seth Kantner is a writer who has attended the University of Alaska and studied journalism at the University of Montana. He has worked as a photographer, trapper, fisherman, mechanic and igloo-builder and now lives in Kotzebue, Alaska. His recent 2004 book, "Ordinary Wolves", tells the story of Cutuk, a boy who, like the author, was raised and home-schooled in a sod igloo on the Alaskan tundra. - Ronald Bailey
Ronald Bailey (born November 23, 1953) is the science editor for "Reason" magazine. He was born and raised in Washington County, Virginia, and attended the University of Virginia, where he earned a B.A. in philosophy and economics in 1976. He attended the University of Virginia School of Law for three semesters. Bailey worked briefly as an economist for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission before turning to his career in writing and television production. - Terris Moore
Terris Moore was an explorer, mountaineer, light plane pilot, and the second president of the University of Alaska. Moore attended schools in Haddonfield, Philadelphia and New York, and was a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts. He then received an MBA and the degree of Doctor of Commercial Science from the Harvard School of Business Administration. - Clemon Johnson
Clemon Johnson (born September 12, 1956 in Monticello, Florida) is a retired American professional basketball player. Johnson was a 6'10", 240 lb. center who played 761 games for four teams during his 10 seasons in the National Basketball Association. From 1974-78 he played college basketball at Florida A&M University where he earned a Master's Degree in Sports Management. - Karen Kwiatkowski
Karen U. Kwiatkowski (born 24 September 1960) is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. - Robert R. Coats
Robert Roy Coats (1910-1995) was born in Toronto, Canada, and grew up in Marshalltown, Iowa and Seattle, Washington. He graduated valedictorian of his high school class in Seattle at the age of 16, and attended the University of Washington, where he received both a B.S. and M.S. degree in Geology and Mining (1931 and 1932). He continued graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, receiving his doctorate in 1938, … - Talis J. Colberg
Talis J. Colberg was appointed by newly-elected governor Sarah Palin as the seventeenth attorney general of Alaska on December 13, 2006. As Palin said about her appointment of Talis, “Adding [him] to my team continues to demonstrate my commitment to fill the top posts of my administration with the best in the state.” “He will bring a fresh perspective on all issues as legal advisor to the governor and other state officers. - Leopold David
Leopold David (1878-1924) was the first mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1878 (or Nordhausen, Germany in 1881), he served in the Philippines in the Spanish-American War, achieving the rank of Sergeant First Class. In 1904, David was assigned to Fort Egbert on the Yukon River near Eagle, Alaska, where he worked as a pharmacist's assistant. Discharged in 1905, he moved to Seward, obtaining a position as manager of the Seward Drug Company. - Don Elkins
Donald Tully Elkins, nicknamed Lieutenant Phineas T. Pinkham (February 27, 1930-November 7, 1984), was an American engineer, professor, ufologist, independent filmmaker, pilot, and metaphysician. He was born and died in Louisville, Kentucky. He was the youngest Master Sergeant in the history of the U.S. Army during the Korean War, serving in Germany. - Ross M. Lence
Ross Marlo Anthony Lence, Ph.D. Indiana University (1970), B.A. University of Chicago (1966), was a professor of Political Science at the University of Houston from 1971-2006, where he was John and Rebecca Moores Scholar (named after John Moores (baseball)) and held the Ross M. Lence Distinguished Teaching Chair. He taught Political Philosophy, American Political Thought, and American Government as a member of the Political Science and Honors College faculties. - Kristine Hilderbrand
Kristine Hilderbrand is a mixed martial artist with a background in Tae kwon do. She began martial arts training in 1990 at the age of 6. She was a student of Grand Master Steven Shin of Shins Taekwondo. By the age of 13 she was a regular in USTKD events, but appearances became less frequent after 1999. "The Breaker" graduated from the University of Alaska in 2006, and resumed training. She is expected to resurface for competition in Europe in late 2007. - John Howard Lindauer
John Howard Lindauer II (born on November 20, 1937 in Montclair, New Jersey) was the Republican Party candidate for Governor of Alaska in 1998. He is the father of Susan Lindauer. He has lived in Alaska since 1976. He was the son of Louise (1905-c2004) and John Howard Lindauer I (1905-1954) and was born in Montclair, New Jersey. - Kathleen Bryson
Kathleen Bryson (born December 6th 1968) is a novelist, painter, actor and filmmaker. She was born in Barrow, Alaska, United States, the first child of parents of Irish, English, French, Scottish and German heritage. Bryson spent the first two years of her life in the Arctic village of Wainwright, and when she was nearly four, her family moved to Kenai, where they lived until Kathleen was 18. She studied as an exchange student in Sweden, … - Jaroslav Nešetřil
Jaroslav Nešetřil is a Czech mathematician, Charles University (Prague). His research areas include combinatorics (structural combinatorics, Ramsey theory), graph theory (coloring problems), algebra (representation of structures, categories, homomorphisms), posets (diagram and dimension problems), computer science (complexity, NP-completeness). He is responsible for more than 250 publications, … - Norm Sanders
Norman Karl Sanders (b. 15 October 1932) was an Australian politician, representing the Australian Democrats in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1980 to 1982 and the Australian Senate from 1985 to 1990. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Sanders served in the United States Air Force from 1950 - 1952 before undertaking a BSc at the University of Alaska, an MA at the University of California, Los Angeles and a PhD at the University of Tasmania. - Elliott T. Dennis
- Jeff Fagnan
Jeff Fagnan joined Atlas Venture in 2004. He is a Partner in the technology sector, and focuses on emerging companies in enterprise and internet infrastructure as well as alternative energy technologies / advanced material science. Jeff also works closely with the MIT, Harvard University, Boston University and other innovation engines, to commercialize technologies developed in technical labs. Before joining Atlas Venture, Jeff was a Partner with Seed Capital Partners. - Bonnie Nygard
Bonnie Nygard , MEd, is an associate dean of academic affairs for the Community and Technical College at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). Before she held this position, Bonnie was a faculty member and coordinator of the physical education and recreation department at UAA for more than 15 years. - Greg Storey
Greg Storey is the principal and creative director for Airbag Industries. For the last eleven years he has led interactive development for complex web and email campaigns. He has created websites, intranets, and online stores for a variety of companies from telemedicine research organizations to NCAA tournaments, in industries from comics to tourism. Prior to freelancing, Greg directed the Internet department at Crystal Cathedral Ministries in Orange County where he supervised the . . . - Michael Burwell
Michael Burwell Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Arts Michael Burwell was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1948 but grew up in Seattle. He moved east to Rochester, New York when he was thirteen and later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. In 1982 he moved to Alaska to attend the University of Alaska, Anchorage. He now works as a technical editor and does historical research, teaching creative writing part time at UAA. - Byron Mallott
Byron Mallott: Documenting the history of ANCSA has always been important and there's so much more to be done. Certainly the definitive book about ANCSA hasn't been written. To look at ANCSA and try to translate a lot of what took place into respectable history is going to be interesting. I remember an anecdote. There was one book written early on about Charlie Edwardsen. - Jeremy
My name is Jeremy, I am an electrical engineering student at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. I have a cool roommate, she cooks some good food which is the kind I like to eat, so it all works out. I guess one of the main reasons I signed up for this whole Myspace thing is so I could stalk my friends and their friends and so on...Just kidding, but no seriously, I stalk everyone...Not really, ok maybe a little. - Hollis Fishelson-Holstine
Hollis Fishelson-Holstine recently joined Washington Mutual as 1st Vice-President, R&D, Credit Risk Management. Prior to going Washington Mutual, she served as Vice-President of Research and Development at Fair Isaac Corporation where she was responsible for the analytic underpinnings of the company�s next generation modeling platform. - Jerry Hubbard
JERRY HUBBARD Exec. VP, Business Development Jerry Hubbard was appointed this new position for POSC, and now Energistics, on May 1, 2006. Jerry will be responsible for driving industry adoption of the POSC standards portfolio, increasing Energistics membership value and building the global Energistics community. - Matt Walker
I am an optimistic self-destructive procrastinator with way too much luck for my own good. Creatively stubborn, almost to the point of being obsessive, with a fluid attitude towards my own life. I believe that all things are not just circular but spherical in that all that goes around comes around, it just may take awhile. - Mike Conti
I'm a guy who makes art, has 2 daughters and a wife. I am a commercial and fine art photographer, and teach photography at the University of Alaska. I live for adventure and new experiences, such as river running, mountain climbing, biking to work in anchorage in the winter time. stuff like that. I like looking at art in galleries and museums. I like to read, like to write and take notes ( I have a bad memory) take pictures, make art. - Cara Hesselbach
I live for honesty, the rest can be worked out later... *********************************************************** "There is grandeur in this way of life." -Origin of Species-By Charles Darwin *********************************************************** Cara --[noun]: A beat poet working the streets. - Anthony M. Sholty
Mr. Sholty is a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation Section), the Alaska Bar Association and the Juneau Bar Association. He has served on the Alaska Bar Association's Civil Pattern Jury Instruction, Bar History and Legal Educational Opportunities committees, and as a faculty member at the University of Alaska, Southeast. Mr. Sholty currently serves on the Board of Directors of JAMHI (Juneau Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Inc.). - Jeff
Perhaps I should start with who I am not. I am not Jeff Green the.
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