Evridge holds a master’s degree in Natural Resource and Applied Economics from the University of Fairbanks and commercially fished from 2003 through 2008.
“I am excited to work for an organization dedicated to realizing our state’s full potential. Alaska’s economic, social, and political challenges have been further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an opportunity to define the future of our state, and I look forward to doing my part,” he said.
The Alaska Ocean Cluster also hired Taylor Drew Holshouser as its director of Business Development. He has worked for the federal government and the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, where he remains a Research Fellow covering the socioeconomic implications of a warming Arctic and supports the Institute’s Arctic Infrastructure Inventory. Holshouser studied the history of Arctic exploration and economic development at Yale University, completing a Bachelor of Arts in Humanities in 2018
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Print article This past weekend, I “presided” over the University of Alaska Anchorage’s fall 2020 graduate hooding and commencement ceremonies that occurred on Dec. 12 and 13. More than 1,000 students earned degrees or credentials. I put “presided” in quotes because this year is not normal in any sense of the word. The state is using the Alaska Airlines Center (AAC), where we hold our commencement ceremony, as a temporary outpatient infusion center for COVID-19 patients. Normally we would welcome our graduates, their families and close friends to the AAC by the thousands for a joyous in-person celebration. Instead, this year, we celebrated with mailed diploma tubes and a dynamic website featuring pre-recorded speeches, confetti and a scrolling list of our graduates – a COVID-19-era ceremony that could be experienced safely at home. Similar virtual events occurred at UAA’s community campuses spread throughout Southcentral Alaska.
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Downtown Anchorage was quiet as people stayed away hours before a city “hunker down” order took effect on March 22. The beginning of shutdowns across the state in response to the COVID-19 pandemic turned the Alaska economy upside down with negative effects on nearly every sector and sending the state back into a recession. (Photo/Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News)
There is only one top story for 2020, but the tentacles of the COVID-19 virus have proven so far-reaching that it cannot be summed up with a single headline, despite the countless internet memes attempting to do so. The 2020 Year in Review looks back at the top 10 stories as the pandemic touched every reach of Alaska.
4:59 Jeff Cook, a longtime Fairbanks business figure and the president of the board of the city’s hospital foundation, heard about a case that shook him.
A woman in a rural hub town had COVID-19 and needed to be evacuated, but hospitals in Anchorage and Seattle wouldn’t accept her. She was flown to Fairbanks, where she died without family or support, Cook said.
Cook drafted an email to the office of GOP Gov. Mike Dunleavy, pleading for a statewide mask mandate and asking for phone call. When he got no response, he took the unusual step of sending it to local media outlets to publicize.
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