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Matthew Calhoun

Executive Director of ANSEP

ANSEP

3211 Providence Drive Anchorage, AK 99508

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Matt Calhoun, Ph.D. (Athabaskan) has been selected as the new full-time executive director of the  (ANSEP).

A graduate of ANSEP, former program assistant director, and associate professor of civil engineering at Â鶹´«Ã½A, Calhoun has led ANSEP as interim executive director since spring 2023.

In 2002, Calhoun became one of the first students to graduate with ANSEP after earning a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Â鶹´«Ã½A. After working as a project/field engineer across Alaska, he returned to ANSEP as a director to inspire more Alaska Native students to pursue an education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Notably, Calhoun was one of the first students to earn a doctorate through ANSEP and the first Alaska Native in the world to earn a Ph.D. in civil engineering. In 2015, Calhoun was appointed as assistant director of ANSEP and assistant professor of civil engineering at Â鶹´«Ã½A, making him one of the university’s first Alaska Native tenure-track engineering faculty members.