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Geophysical Institute, Poker Flat offer free summer tours
May 29, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is offering free public tours through Labor Day.
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UAF School of Education earns CAEP accreditation
May 29, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks School of Education recently earned accreditation from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation. CAEP accreditation signifies that UAF has met rigorous, nationally recognized standards developed to ensure excellence in teacher preparation programs.
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Geophysical Institute, Explore Fairbanks offer new summer science series
May 24, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and Explore Fairbanks will host free public science talks this summer at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center in downtown Fairbanks.
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Discover Alaska lecture series starts June 5
May 24, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks will host the Discover Alaska lecture series starting on June 5. This year's lectures feature scientists whose research explores various aspects of Alaska. The series is presented by UAF Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning in cooperation with UAF's Institute of Arctic Biology.
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Regents approve UAF College of Indigenous Studies
May 23, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks College of Rural and Community Development is now the College of Indigenous Studies. The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Board of Regents unanimously approved the name change at its May 23 meeting in Anchorage.
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A backyard science expedition, in diapers
May 23, 2024
A fist-size opening in the forest floor exhausted so much air this spring that it built its own chimney of frost. A university researcher -- and her kids -- helped investigate.
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Healthy Living lecture series begins June 4
May 23, 2024
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks will host the 14th annual Healthy Living lecture series starting on June 4. The free series offers a variety of presentations by Alaska medical specialists and experts.
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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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