Education
Alaska’s colleges, universities, and vocational schools help keep its industries alive by offering top-notch courses tailored to their students’ needs. Students are able to gain undergraduate and graduate degrees in the state’s most booming industries including healthcare, education, and science, and engineering, to name a just a few, through the University of Alaska system or Alaska Pacific University. If vocational schools are more your speed, check out Alaska Carpenters Training Trust, APICC, or the Lynden Training Center.
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New Oil on the North Slope
August 2026
In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.