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Week's events: Tourism talk, pandemic response, Alaska innovation, Emily Anderson
July 15, 2022
Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here is what's happening during the week of July 17-24.
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110 years since the largest Alaska eruption
July 14, 2022
To put the largest eruption in Alaska's written history in context, Robert Griggs pondered what might have happened if the volcano was located on Manhattan Island.
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Â鶹¹ÙÍø launches new master's degree in marine policy
July 14, 2022
Working on marine issues often requires knowledge of both natural and social sciences, and the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks and the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Southeast can provide it through their new Master of Marine Policy degree.
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Learn about the boreal forest from forester Glen Holt
July 13, 2022
Take a walk in the woods with forester Glen Holt on Saturday, July 23, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Ballaine Lake on Farmers Loop.
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Rural Alaska Honors Institute celebrates class of 2022
July 11, 2022
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks will celebrate the achievements of the Rural Alaska Honors Institute class of 2022 on July 14 with a hybrid in-person and virtual graduation ceremony.
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Week's events: Bishop McCormick, diagnostic imaging, drones, marimba music
July 08, 2022
Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here is what's happening during the week of July 10-16.
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A half century in a difficult, dynamic place
July 07, 2022
Dan Mann hands me a clump of orange dirt the size of an almond. He instructs me to put it in my mouth. "What's it taste like? Does it crunch?"
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Birdwatching brings millions of dollars to Alaska
July 06, 2022
New research by the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks and Audubon Alaska found that nearly 300,000 birders traveled to the state and spent about $378 million in 2016. Birdwatching supported roughly 4,300 jobs in Alaska that year.
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Week's event: Bagpipe music with Red Hackle Pipe Band
July 01, 2022
Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here is what's happening during the week of July 3-9.
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Mining's effect on fish warrants better science-based policies
July 01, 2022
A new paper published in Science Advances synthesizes the impact of metal and coal mines on salmon and trout in northwestern North America
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Matanuska Experiment Farm honored for century of tracking weather
June 30, 2022
On July 6, the National Weather Service will honor the Matanuska Experiment Station and Extension Center for its century of participation in the Cooperative Observer Program.
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Salmon nose deep into Alaska ecosystems
June 30, 2022
During a good year in Bristol Bay, a surge of more than 100 million pounds of sockeye salmon fights its way upstream, spawns, and dies. In Bristol Bay and elsewhere in Alaska, this incredible pulse of salmon carcasses enriches streams and rivers and makes young salmon hardier.
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Â鶹¹ÙÍø shows need to improve prediction of Arctic melt ponds
June 30, 2022
New research shows two widely used computer models that predict summer melt pond formation on sea ice greatly overestimate their extent, a key finding as scientists work to make accurate projections about Arctic climate change.
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Mathematician to give talk on geometry and the arts
June 29, 2022
A visiting mathematics professor will explore the role of geometry in the development and aesthetics of the visual arts during a talk at the Â鶹¹ÙÍø Fairbanks at 7 p.m. on July 10.
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In-person food preservation classes offered in Anchorage
June 28, 2022
Leif Albertson will teach a series of in-person, hands-on classes on food preservation this summer.
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