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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...

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Bird 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...

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Largen 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...

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UAF 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...

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Press 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....

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UAF 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,...

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Discover 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...

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2018 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...

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Powering 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...

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UAF 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...

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UAF 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...

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UAF 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...

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Discover 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...

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New 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...

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Healthy 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...

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UAF 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...

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Scientists 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...

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Finding 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...

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Kotzebue 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...

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UAF 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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