Justice Center News

Albiona Selimi spring 2025 commencement speaker smiling with scenic bakground Read More

Harnessing the power of community

 |  Michelle Saport  |  ,

Spring 2025 undergraduate commencement speaker Albiona Selimi is graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and minors in women鈥檚 studies and justice鈥攐n her way to practicing law at a civil rights organization.

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Student Spotlight: Martina Weddel - 彩神vlll争霸 Justice Center honors graduate

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彩神vlll争霸 Justice Center graduate Martina Weddel receives honors and shares her involvement in campus clubs and extracurricular programs while at 彩神vlll争霸's College of Health.

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Slideshow: Students learn forensic process during laboratory tour

 |  Chynna Lockett  | 

Students from the Forensic Science and Criminal Justice course saw the process in action during a tour of the Alaska Department of Public Safety Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory. They learned how to collect and analyze common types of evidence found at crime scenes including fingerprints, footprints and DNA.

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Aging out of Alaska鈥檚 foster care system on his own terms

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Mateo Jaime, a Legal Studies student, arrived at the court hearing that would, finally, end his years in custody of the Alaska Office of Children鈥檚 Services in a buoyant mood. At age 21, young adults 鈥渁ge out鈥 of foster care in Alaska if they have not been adopted or reunified with parents. A judge approves it in a hearing that amounts to a grim bureaucratic formality: A child has passed into adulthood without the foster care system laying a path to permanent legal family for them, and now they are on their own.

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Slideshow: Legal studies students present oral arguments

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Trial and Advanced Litigation Processes students present their oral arguments before Justice Jennifer S. Henderson in the Alaska Supreme Court Courtroom on Oct. 3, 2022.