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The sign at the entrance of Kenai Peninsula College’s Kachemak Bay Campus is photographed on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Finn Heimbold/Homer News)

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Kachemak Bay Science Conference to take place this month

The Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is hosting the 10th Kachemak Science Conference March 17-20 at Kachemak…

Sara Wilhelm, a 2020 Semester by the Bay alumni and current lab technician stands outside of Pioneer Hall at Kachemak Bay Campus on Jan. 25. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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Kachemak Bay Campus Semester by the Bay begins spring cohort

Homer’s Kachemak Bay Campus welcomes the newest cohort of Semester by the Bay students. Twelve students — visiting…

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Reid Brewer takes the helm from Kris Holderied as new director at the Kasitsna Bay Lab at Homer Islands and Oceans Center on Jan. 16.

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Reid Brewer takes the helm as director at NOAA’s Kachemak Bay Kasitsna Bay Lab

The Kasitsna Bay Laboratory is located on the south side of Kachemak Bay from Homer near the community…

Homer city council member Jason Davis (center) speaks to the audience gathered in Pioneer Hall for the Israel-Palestine conflict panel discussion on Friday, Dec. 15<ins>, 2023</ins> at Kachemak Bay Campus<ins> in Homer, Alaska</ins>. Davis formerly served in the political section of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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Israel-Palestine discussion brings listeners to KBC

A discussion on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict hosted Friday at Kachemak Bay campus drew a standing-room only crowd…

The sign at the entrance of Kenai Peninsula College’s Kachemak Bay Campus is photographed on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Finn Heimbold/Homer News)

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Kachemak Bay Campus to host panel on the Israel-Palestine conflict

The Kachemak Bay Campus of the University of Alaska will host a five-member open-format conversation about the Israel-Palestine…

Kachemak Bay Campus Director Dr. Reid Brewer (left) presents valedictorian Elizabeth Rozeboom (right) with her Associate of Arts diploma during the 2023 KBC Commencement on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman

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KBC director resigns to transition into new career

Dr. Reid Brewer will take up a NOAA position at Kasitsna Bay Lab

A friendly, pumpkin-headed scarecrow stands outside the Pioneer Avenue entrance of Kachemak Bay Campus on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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KBC offers evening course on raising and caring for chickens

Casey Matney, associate professor with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, is providing a course on…

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Dr. Debbie Tobin and Marc Webber and the Semester by the Bay students conducting field work this fall in Kenai Fjords National Park heading for Northwestern Glacier.

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Students wrap up Semester by the Bay with symposium

Students participating in the Kachemak Bay Campus Semester by the Bay will provide presentations Friday, Nov. 3, at…

Pioneer Hall at the Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska Anchoarge, as seen on July 2, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Kenai Peninsula College finalizes land purchase

The lot, next door to Kachemak Bay Campus, formerly belonged to Young’s Downtown Inn and Restaurant

Pioneer Hall at the Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska Anchoarge, as seen on July 2, 2019, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Campus to host discussion on cycling anthology

“Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska” is a collection of stories, fiction and nonfiction by authors…

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Benjamin Jenny and Jen Ky stop by to help Monica Kopp of Homer Soil and Water plant a cover crop of kale at the KPC high tunnel on Aug. 8.

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Kachemak Bay Campus announces advances to the sustainable agriculture program

Homer campus opens high tunnel as a teaching lab

Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference keynote speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer gives a presentation on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman

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‘Stories can be medicine’

Writers’ conference features keynote speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer

Kachemak Bay Campus Director Dr. Reid Brewer welcomes KBC graduates and audience members to the 2023 commencement ceremony on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Kachemak Bay Campus returns to in-person commencement ceremony

The campus conferred 62 degrees and certificates during its 53rd annual commencement hosted on Wednesday