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Research summary
The final report for progress during the period from 15 Nov. 1988 to 14 Nov. 1991 is presented. Research on methods for analysis of sound propagation through the atmosphere and on results obtained from application of our methods are summarized. Ten written documents of NASA research are listed, and these include publications, manuscripts accepted, submitted, or in preparation for publication, and reports. Twelve presentations of results, either at scientific conferences or at research or technical organizations, since the start of the grant period are indicated. Names of organizations to which software produced under the grant was distributed are provided, and the current arrangement whereby the software is being distributed to the scientific community is also described. Finally, the names of seven graduate students who worked on NASA research and received Rensselaer degrees during the grant period, along with their current employers are given
Research Summary No. 20192
This paper examines trends in Alaska public high school graduation rates from academic
year 2010-11 to 2015-16 and explores differences across demographic groups. We focus
specifically on students from public neighborhood high schools. These are publicly-funded
schools run by district or Regional Educational Attendance Area school boards serving all residents
within school attendance boundaries. These schools represent about 88% of Alaskaâs
high school students.Council of Alaska Producer
Research Summary No. 73
This publication is mostly about electricity in Alaska: how itâs generated,
how much fuel is used to produce it, how fuel sources have shifted over
time, and how prices vary. An inside foldout map shows how individual
communities throughout the state generate electricity.
But besides looking in detail at electricity, it also reports more broadly
on energy in Alaska. It includes our estimates of all the types of energy
produced and consumed in Alaska, and summarizes changes over time in
the prices and amounts of energy Alaskans use
UA Research Summary No. 12
Recent reports on higher education in the U.S. say itâs in troubleâ that
itâs too expensive, doesnât offer enough need-based aid, isnât educating
people for todayâs jobs, doesnât demand enough of instructors or students,
and isnât sufficiently accountable to policymakers and taxpayers.1
Is the University of Alaska (UA)âthe stateâs only public university
âoffering a good, affordable education for Alaskans? This paper looks at
that question. It first presents the available data on various measures and
then summarizes successes and continuing challenges for UA. It ends with a
discussion of how UA and the state are addressing higher-education issues
and what other steps they might consider.University of Alaska Foundatio
UA Research Summary No. 11
Alaska Natives make up 9% of students at the University of Alaska
Anchorage, and the number attending classes on the Anchorage campus
is up more than 40% since 2000âfrom 950 to nearly 1,400.
But despite that fast growth, few Alaska Native students go on to
graduate. Less than 5% of the students earning bachelorâs degrees at
UAA in 2007 were Alaska Native. And as Figure 1 shows, only about one
in 10 of the Native students who were freshmen in 2000 had earned
bachelorâs degrees six years later, in 2006.
Alaska Native students begin leaving at high rates in their second
year at UAA. Among those who started in 2005, less than 60% of the
Native freshmen but 70% of all freshmen went on to the next year. Still,
that was an improvement over 2000, when only about half the Alaska
Native freshmen continued on to their second year (Figure 1).
The low graduation rates among Native studentsânot only at UAA
but throughout the University of Alaskaâare worrisome. Alaska Natives
are under-represented in teaching, health care, business, and many other
professionsâand that wonât change until more Alaska Native students
get the educational credentials they need.
But what about those Alaska Native students who do succeed in
earning bachelorâs and masterâs degrees and doctorates? What keeps
them going, when so many others donât make it to graduation?University of Alaska Foundatio
UA Research Summary No. 15
Utterly worthless. Thatâs how a congressman from Missouri
described Alaska in 1867, when the U.S. bought it from Russia. A
lot of Americans agreed. For almost 100 years, hardly anyoneâ
except some Alaskansâwanted Alaska to become a state.
But Alaska did finally become a state, in 1959. Today, after
142 years as a U.S. possession and 50 years as a state, Alaska has
produced resources worth (in todayâs dollars) around 7.2 million for Alaska, equal to about $106 million
now. For perspective, thatâs roughly what the state government
collected in royalties from oil produced on state-owned land in just
the month of March 2009.
To help mark 50 years of statehood, this publication first takes
a broad look at whatâs changed in Alaska since 1959. Thatâs on
this page and the back page. Weâve also put together a timeline
of political and economic events in Alaska from 1867 to the present.
Thatâs on the inside pages. Thereâs an interactive version of the
timelineâwith photos, figures, and moreâon ISERâs Web site:
www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu
UA Research Summary No. 13
What drives Alaskaâs economy is new money:
money coming in from outside the state. How big
the economy is, and how much it grows,
depends on how much new money comes in.
New money comes from âbasicâ sectorsâ
the sectors that are the basis for all jobs and
income across Alaska. They are, in effect, the gears driving the economy.
Alaska has eight main basic sectors, but the number of Alaskans they
employ directly is small, compared with the number of jobs they support
indirectly. Figure 1 shows numbers and shares of jobs for Alaskans that the
federal government, the petroleum sector, and the other basic sectors generated
on average between 2004 and 2006. The numbers for any specific
period arenât as important as the percentages, which donât change much
from year to year.Northrim Bank.
University of Alaska Foundation
UA Research Summary No. 18
Health-care spending for Alaskans reached about 14 billion.
Here we report on whoâs paying the bills, what weâre buying, whatâs contributing to the growth, and other aspects of
health-care spending. We conclude with a discussion of how Alaska could get better value for its health-care dollars
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