Long After Civil War’s End, Rebel Raiders Fought On in Bering Sea By Liz Ruskin, APRN | April 8, 2015 One hundred and fifty years ago, on April 9, General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Va. Textbooks typically say this event signaled the end of the Civil War. But a few historians make the case […]
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News and announcements of significance to APC members
Sunshine Week is March 15-21, 2015
NFPW encourages its members to participate in Sunshine Week Sunshine Week was launched in 2005. It’s an annual initiative to promote open government and push back against excessive official secrecy. We encourage our memebrs to start thinking about what they can do. During the week, journalists are encouraged to do their part to highlight the […]
Thetus Smith Presented 2014 Spark Plug Award
At the Jan. 2015 lunch meeting, Diane Walters, immediate past-president of APC, presented Thetus Smith with the 2014 Spark Plug Award. Thetus has been maintaining APC’s mailing lists and compiling and sending the Email Express for many years. She learned and converted to a new database manager last year. Thetus takes reservations for the APC […]
UAA Campus Bookstore events for February 2015
Complete February Calendar January 28, 2015 5:00pm-7:00pm Dr. Lyn Freeman and Dr. Rebecca White present “Pain & Neuroplasticity.” Monday, February 2 7:30pm-9:30pm at UAA Recital Hall ARTS 150 Classical Pianist Edvinas Minkstimas: Lithuanian Legacies Edvinas Minkstimas performs “Songs of the Vilnius Ghetto” and compositions by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911), Anatolijus Senderovas (b. 1945, Lithuanian Jewish […]
The 2015 Communications Contest is Open
APC is now accepting entries for the 2015 Alaska Professional Communicators’ Communications Contest electronically through the NFPW website. Once you are on the contest Welcome (login) page, click the white REGISTER link in the upper left corner of the contest site, you will get an entrant form that prompts entrants to select “member” or “non-member” […]