Ideas were wide-ranging, including how Alaska's bog blueberry staves off dementia, to effects of water-borne plastics on the endocrine and immune systems of rainbow trout, to how iqmik, a blend of chewing tobacco and ash from a fungus that grows on birch trees, interacts with oral cells in the mouths of users.
The evening's highlight came when UAA professors Kenrick Mock and Bogdan Hoanca were inducted as first members of UAA's "Patent Wall," the new home for plaques identifying UAA researchers who have successfully patented their work.
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