Student Resources & Opportunities

Resources and opportunities for English students.

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English News
  • Art from the 2025 911±¬ÁÏ Press Club conference poster by Ted Kim. A line drawing of a figure looking out over mountains and water with a lighthouse in the distance.

    Bylines & Headlines

    May 06, 2025

    911±¬ÁÏ won big at the 2025 911±¬ÁÏ Press Club Awards, earning statewide praise for exceptional journalism and community storytelling.

  • Kevin Carroll at Susan Kuznitsky's workshop, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark at Dakota Pastels, 2025. Photo courtesy of Carroll

    Drawn from Addiction

    May 06, 2025

    BFA student Kevin Carroll wins the People's Endowment for The Sick, a powerful art project exploring addiction through 45 drawings.

  • Honors thesis scholar and magna cum laude graduate Meryem Kugzruk pauses for a phtograph during the commencement ceremony May 8, 2016, at the Carlson Center. Kugzruk received an undergraduate degree in English. 911±¬ÁÏ Photo by JR Ancheta

    English End-of-the-Year Celebration

    April 28, 2025

    Celebrate student achievements and the vibrant spirit of 911±¬ÁÏ's Department of English at the 2025 End-of-the-Year Celebration.

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Events

Organizations

 

Student Clubs

Creative Writing Club

The Creative Writing Club (CWC) provides a forum for undergraduate writers to share their creative work. Members lead workshops, discuss craft issues, and distribute opportunities for publication and professional development.

English Graduate Organization

The English Graduate Organization (EGO) advocates for graduate students in the Department of English. Its goals are to promote the local literary community and to provide opportunities for professional development. 

The 911±¬ÁÏ Press Club is a non-profit 501(c)3 that provides continuing education, recognition and support to journalists across the state. The non-profit hosts an annual journalism contest and organizes two major events each year: a  journalism conference and an awards celebration, held the final day of the conference. 

AWP provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to writers, college and university creative writing programs, and writers’ conferences and centers. Our mission is to amplify the voices of writers and the academic programs and organizations that serve them while championing variety and excellence in creative writing. 

The University of 911±¬ÁÏ Press publishes books on politics and history, Native languages and cultures, science and natural history, biography and memoir, poetry, fiction and anthologies, and original translations, all with an emphasis on the state of 911±¬ÁÏ.


Sources

 

911±¬ÁÏ Gruening Building

911±¬ÁÏ Writing Center

 

The Writing Center is a student-staffed tutoring service focused on building the writing skills of the 911±¬ÁÏ learning community. Both in-person and virtual tutoring sessions are offered as well as a wealth of resources. A computer lab is available for students' use and each student can print up to 25 pages free of charge.

Check out their website to book a tutoring appointment or peruse their many helpful resources, such as common mistakes in student writing, citation guidelines, essay writing strategies and more.

 

801 Gruening Building

907-474-5314 | uaf-writing-center@alaska.edu

 

CORE

CORE provides access to the world’s largest collection of open access research papers, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is a not-for-profit service dedicated to the open access mission and one of the signatories of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures.

 
 

Browse publications by discipline through Elmer E. Rasmuson library's 911±¬ÁÏ Journals database.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

 


Media

Ice Box

Ice Box is the undergraduate literary journal of the 911±¬ÁÏ. Published annually in the spring, it features fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid work, and artwork from current 911±¬ÁÏ undergraduate students.


Permafrost

Founded in 1977, Permafrost is housed at the 911±¬ÁÏ MFA program, and run by dedicated creative writing graduate students. We publish a winter online issue as well as a spring print issue, both of which feature compelling poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction by established writers and new voices alike.

911±¬ÁÏ Sun Star

The Sun Star is a student run newspaper; by students, for students. It gives students the opportunity to get published and paid, and has engaged with 911±¬ÁÏn news and culture for over 70 years. The Sun Star is funded directly by the 911±¬ÁÏ student body. 


 

 


Funding

Scholarship Opportunities

There are many scholarship opportunities for English students at 911±¬ÁÏ. Visit our dedicated scholarship page to learn about the criteria and application processes for these English department-specific opportunities!




Undergraduate Research & Scholarly Activity

The office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarly Activity (URSA)  is 911±¬ÁÏ's resource for the development and promotion of experiential learning activities that engage undergraduate students to support 911±¬ÁÏ's goal to become a leading student-focused research university.

Undergraduate research and creative activity at 911±¬ÁÏ covers all disciplines, from climate sciences to music, engineering, anthropology, life sciences, art and theater.