Botany course turns students’ surroundings into a lab
Photo courtesy of Steffi Ickert-BondSteffi Ickert-Bond and a research team explore Ugadaga Bay near Unalaska in 2016. In her new online botany course, students will explore and discuss flora in their...
View ArticleBird feathers and the smell of tangerines
Photo by Hector Douglas A crested auklet sits on Little Diomede Island in July 2015. Millions of Alaska birds nest on rocky emerald islands seen by few people other than ship captains. One of the...
View ArticleLargen named Alaska Nanooks hockey coach
Erik Largen University of Alaska Fairbanks Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Keith Champagne has named Erik Largen the head coach of the Alaska Nanooks men’s ice hockey program. Largen has served as...
View ArticleUAF scientists will help gauge how Antarctic glacier could collapse
Photo by Martin Truffer UAF Geophysical Institute researchers will use this ice-drilling system to cut a hole through Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier to the ocean below. The system is shown here...
View ArticlePress registration for Alaska National Lab Day now available
Press registration is open for Alaska National Lab Day events May 29 – 31 in Fairbanks, Alaska. The event, hosted at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will draw representatives from the U.S....
View ArticleUAF researcher goes with the flow of ocean currents
Photo courtesy of Louis St. LaurentHarper Simmons deploys a wave glider into the ocean off the coast of Palau. Download story text here. Not all ocean research involves living on a ship for a month,...
View ArticleDiscover hands-on programs at the museum this month
The University of Alaska Museum of the North will host hands-on travel-related programs during the month of May. The drop-in Early Explorers program for children five and under is on Fridays from 10...
View Article2018 Usibelli Award winners announced
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the 2018 Usibelli Award winners. The Usbelli Distinguished Teaching Award will go to Patty Meritt, a professor of early childhood education. The...
View ArticlePowering across Alaska on skis
Photo by Miles RaneyJeremy Vandermeer dries his boot liners after breaking through ice on the Noatak River during a trip from Galbraith Lake to Kotzebue. “Jeremy offers us only his incessant snoring...
View ArticleUAF to host 2018 commencement ceremony
Photo by Todd ParisThe University of Alaska Fairbanks will honor the Class of 2018 during its 96th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 5, at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks. The university’s first...
View ArticleUAF selected for new federal drone program
Photo courtesy ACUASI A Responder unmanned helicopter, owned by the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration, sits near a glacier. ACUASI, part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks...
View ArticleUAF alumna helps women ‘dare to be darling’
Photo courtesy of Rosemary Berg Rosemary Berg, who earned a degree in rural development from UAF, worked to empower Alaska women as part of her platform while competing in pageants. Download text and...
View ArticleDiscover Alaska lecture series begins on May 30
UAF photo by JR AnchetaFlowers adorn a bed by the south wall of the Eielson Building on the Fairbanks campus. The Discover Alaska lecture series begins May 30 with a discussion about gardening in the...
View ArticleNew tool offers local climate change information
A new web-based tool will allow communities in Alaska and western Canada to see how global climate change could affect their regions. A team in the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center at the...
View ArticleHealthy Living lecture series to begin May 29
University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning will offer its Healthy Living lecture series starting on May 29. The annual series features experts and specialists in various...
View ArticleUAF researchers awarded NSF early-career grants
Two researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have received awards and project funding from the National Science Foundation. Srijan Aggarwal, an assistant professor at the College of...
View ArticleScientists plan study of northern cities’ air quality
Photo by Amy HartleyIce fog obscures the view in front of the Geophysical Institute on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. Ice fog forms when water in the air becomes supercooled, which occurs...
View ArticleFinding fish in Alaska’s fossil record
Photo by Theresa BakkerAndrés López, left, curator of fishes at the UA Museum of the North, and Pat Druckenmiller, curator of earth sciences, talk about the fish fossil record in Alaska. Download text...
View ArticleKotzebue Communities of Memory recordings now available
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library recently published a new segment in the oral history project Communities of Memory. The Kotzebue Communities of Memory recordings are available...
View ArticleUAF announces winners of second microgrid competition
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the winners of the second Alaska Center for Microgrid Technologies Commercialization competition. Intergrid LLC, an inverter company based in Temple,...
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