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LARS to host annual Birthday Bash for new calves
May 22, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks' Large Animal Â鶹¹ÙÍø Station will introduce its new reindeer and muskox calves at its annual Birthday Bash from noon-4 p.m. on June 1.
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2024 Legacy Lecture to feature Jo Heckman
May 22, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks 2024 Legacy Lecture will honor Jo Heckman at 7 p.m. Monday, June 3, in the BP Design Theater, Room 401 of the Usibelli Building.
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UAF offers free summer shuttle for visitors
May 21, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks will have a free shuttle for summer visitors.
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UAF to offer two new Athabascan language courses this fall
May 17, 2024
The Alaska Native Language Center at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks will offer two new Native language courses for the fall 2024 semester.
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UAF, Toolik Field Station join Arctic climate initiative
May 17, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks will help host and support a new $15-million federal initiative to better understand the resilience of Arctic organisms and ecosystems amid rapid climate change. Bringing together experts from 14 institutions, the Evolving Meta-Ecosystems Institute will focus on improving scientific and public understanding of how Arctic ecosystems are responding -- and will continue to respond -- as their environment shifts.
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Microplastics low and high in Alaska
May 17, 2024
A group of scientists from UAF's Water and Environmental Â鶹¹ÙÍø Center in 2020 and 2021 sampled snow and freshwater from more than 70 locations on a south-to-north transect, mostly along highways. Their recently published study showed plastic fragments everywhere they sampled, from the Kenai Peninsula to the North Slope.
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Vanairsdale named 2024 UAF Business Leader of the Year
May 16, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks College of Business and Security Management has named Tracy Vanairsdale as the recipient of the 2024 UAF Business Leader of the Year award.
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Music in the Garden concerts begin Thursday, May 23
May 15, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Music in the Garden concert series will kick off Thursday, May 23, at the Georgeson Botanical Garden. Part of UAF's Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning, the concert series offers 12 weeks of family-friendly performances on Thursday evenings throughout the summer.
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Tour the Fairbanks office of the National Weather Service
May 14, 2024
Have you ever wanted to see what the inside of the local National Weather Service looks like? On Thursday, May 16, you will have your chance during Arctic Â鶹¹ÙÍø Open House.
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Solar storm -- not HAARP -- creates intense auroral display
May 13, 2024
Night skies over the weekend erupted with vivid colors and awed people all around the globe as the solar wind from a severe geomagnetic storm produced by our sun entered Earth's upper atmosphere and created auroral displays. The spectacular aurora sparked questions about possible connections to recent experiments by the High-frequency Active Auroral Â鶹¹ÙÍø Program, or HAARP.
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Â鶹¹ÙÍø event gives visitors a backstage pass to science fun
May 13, 2024
The rock-n-roll themed event -- Tundra Struck -- will offer the community a peek behind the curtain to see why the results of UAF research reverberate around the world.
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Kuskokwim Campus celebrates 50th commencement ceremony
May 13, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Kuskokwim Campus honored the Class of 2024 during its 50th commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 7, at the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center in Bethel.
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Diane O'Brien elected to the National Academy of Sciences
May 13, 2024
Diane, O'Brien, interim director of the Institute of Arctic Biology, is one of 120 newly elected members to the National Academy of Sciences that were announced at the organization's annual meeting.
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Mountain goats live and die on the edge
May 09, 2024
Kevin White has placed his hands on the long, white fur of more than 400 Alaska mountain goats during the past 20 years. His diligence in studying this Ice Age wanderer of high, steep, country has led to a new understanding -- a surprising number of the creatures die by snow avalanche.
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UAF biology student awarded NSF Graduate Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fellowship
May 09, 2024
Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks graduate student Jorda Kovash was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fellowship. She is one of two graduate students in the state of Alaska who received the prestigious award in the 2024 cycle.
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