The 2013 UAA Commencement ceremony was held Sunday, May 5 at Sullivan Arena. See photos from the ceremony and a list of our graduates on the Justice Center blog.

Kelsey Waldorf, B.A. Justice 2013, UAA Student Commencement Speaker on May 5

Kelsey Waldorf, B.A. Justice, was the student commencement speaker at the University of Alaska Anchorage commencement ceremony on May 5, 2013 held at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage. Watch:

During her time at UAA, Kelsey, from Homer, Alaska, was a member of the University Honors College, participated in the Forty-Ninth State Fellows program, and was a member of the award-winning Seawolf Debate Team. During her sophomore and junior years she assisted Justice Center faculty as a student researcher on a project for the Alaska State Troopers on the predictive validity of marijuana odor detection. Kelsey plans to spend a year interning at a political office in the Lower 48 or teaching English in Vietnam before starting law school. Ultimately, she hopes to become a field agent for the FBI. Read more about Kelsey in the Green & Gold.

Assaults Committed Against Alaska Police Officers, 2002–2011

The March 2013 issue of the AJSAC Fact Sheet presents data on assaults committed against Alaska police officers during 2002–2011. Data were extracted from the Alaska Department of Public Safety's annual Uniform Crime Reporting publication Crime in Alaska. The report examines data on assaults on police including rates of assault, percentage of assaults resulting in injury, weapons used in assaults, and officers killed in the line of duty (1960–2011). The Fact Sheet is by Dr. Brad A. Myrstol, director of the Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center (AJSAC).