Credit James Evans / University of Alaska Anchorage
A Yup’ik college student has won an international award for finding a way to extract rare earth metals without hurting the environment. Michael Martinez is a University of Alaska Anchorage science student, whose mother’s family hails from Kotlik. Martinez discovered a way to use microbes to extract rare earth metals while not creating toxic byproducts, and created the company Arctic Biotech Oath to develop and market the technology. The High North Dialogue Conference, meeting in Norway, has given Martinez the High North Young Entrepreneur Award.
“This is a Yup’ik and indigenous people’s win up here in Alaska,” said Martinez. “This not only shows we’re capable of doing the basic research, but this shows that we can impact a great sector. Not only of upcoming technology, but something people are looking forward to in the future.”
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Our guest on Dec. 21 was Tiffany Hall, the executive director of Recover Alaska. She talked with us about an app designed to help people control their problems with addiction.
This link goes directly to Recover Alaska s virtual, sober winter lounge. Most of the images are clickable links, so please get comfortable and click around: https://recoveralaska.org/virtual-sober-lounge/
This is the direct link to the Get Help Now page, which includes info about the Step Away app and promotion https://recoveralaska.org/gethelp
If people have questions, they can write to info@recoveralaska.org or call 907-249-6645