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CANHR researchers and colleagues part of international health conference
August 15, 2012
CANHR provided 28 presentations or posters to 500 health researchers, physicians and policymakers from around the world who gathered at the ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø Aug. 5-10 for the 15th triennial International Congress on Circumpolar Health.
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CANHR undergraduate earns recognition for suicide study
August 15, 2012
Chris DeCou, an undergraduate student of Monica Skewes, was awarded the Jens Peder Hart Hansen Fellow at the recent International Congress of Circumpolar Health.
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CANHR to host free salmon lunch taste test
July 15, 2012
Jazlyn Herron has a discerning palate.
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Study to look at Native researchers
July 15, 2012
CANHR investigator Stacy Rasmus is joining Olga Ulturgasheva, a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, in a study that explores their experiences as indigenous researchers in indigenous communities.Both women work with Native youth in the Arctic.
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CANHR researcher to look at Alaska Native college students alcohol treatment attitudes
June 15, 2012
Lots of research has been done with U.S. college students who drink. That research has yielded many relevant education and treatment programs for students who want to drink less or quit altogether.
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Relay for Life a success for CANHR researcher and team
May 15, 2012
CANHR's Ellen Lopez reports that Hopeful Connections, the team she and Freda Williams of ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø Native Association hosted, had a great time at the Relay for Life this past weeked.
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UAF showcases new Kuskokwim Campus CANHR research facility
May 04, 2012
A little construction debris didn't interfere with the successful ribbon cutting ceremony for CANHR's new clinical research suite in Bethel. For more of the story, click here for KYUK's radio radio report.
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UAF to open Bethel clinical research facility
April 25, 2012
The ²ÊÉñix¹ÙÍø Center for Alaska Native Health Research will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new clinical research facility at the Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel May 3 at 4 p.m.
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April 15, 2012
The gray fall evening settles quietly on Bethel as surely as an overnight frost.
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Research findings point toward genetic benefits of marine-based diet
April 15, 2012
CANHR's recent research findings bolster the idea that some Yupiit, who are remarkably healthy despite being overweight, are likely so because of their own genetic interactions with a marine-based diet.
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