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  • Kick off term at Evidence-Based Teaching Conference

    August 09, 2024

    Join the Center for Teaching and Learning for the inaugural Evidence-Based Teaching Conference, Aug. 13-15, for three days of sessions on actionable ideas for your online, in-person, or hybrid class, anchored in teaching and learning scholarship.
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  • Workshop: Unconscious bias

    August 09, 2024

    While biases aid people in making decisions, they can also leave out part of the story, leading to a society where everyone operates from their own viewpoint. This Sept. 12 workshop from ComPsych will allow attendees to discover their biases and impact.
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  • Week's events: George Rydlinski, Swedish death cleaning, ending suicide, string band

    August 09, 2024

    ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the final week, Aug. 12-18.
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  • A flat-topped, cliff-sided hill rises from the tundra above a clear stream running through gravel bars.

    Pondering the mystery of the Mesa people

    August 08, 2024

    Now as quiet as wind whispering through grass, a plateau rising from the flats of northern ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ was for thousands of years a lookout for ancient ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ns.
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  • Party in the Park: Department table registration

    August 07, 2024

    Party in the Park is the annual Wood Center for Student Engagement fair, hosted in Constitution Park. This is a yearly opportunity for folks to connect with student clubs and university departments at the start of the school year.
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  • Ice fog over Fairbanks

    UAF will buy instruments to expand Fairbanks air studies

    August 07, 2024

    A $702,000 National Science Foundation grant to the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ will pay for two science instruments to expand the study of wintertime air pollution and summertime wildfire smoke in cold-weather cities such as Fairbanks.
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  • Unlocking Excellence: Student Learning Outcomes, Academic Program Review training

    August 07, 2024

    A two-day Student Learning Outcome Assessment training is scheduled for Aug. 13-14 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the BP Design Theater. This comprehensive training will provide faculty with valuable insights and practical tools for enhancing student learning and preparing for academic program review.
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  • UA FY26 Federal Appropriations call for requests now open

    August 07, 2024

    The University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ System FY26 Federal Appropriations requests form is now open. The UA System will be accepting requests through Sept. 30, 2024. All requests must be submitted via this online form to be considered.
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  • UAF professor Katey Walter Anthony and a research technician set fire to escaping methane gas trapped beneath a frozen pond near the UAF campus in an earlier study in February 2016.

    Researchers find unexpectedly large methane source in overlooked landscape

    August 07, 2024

    A new study from UAF researchers reported that upland landscapes were releasing some of the highest methane emissions yet documented among northern terrestrial ecosystems. The research was sparked when a potent greenhouse gas began ballooning under lawns in Fairbanks.
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  • Bright red berries in the sun against green leaves.

    Far North Currant Festival highlights less-known ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ berry

    August 06, 2024

    Currants are getting their day in the spotlight at the Far North Currant Festival. Currants, a type of berry, grow well in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ and are found across the state, with varieties ranging from a translucent red to trailing black.
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  • John Greenfield

    John Greenfield named Department of Military and Veteran Services interim director

    August 05, 2024

    John Greenfield has been named the interim director of the Department of Military and Veteran Services. He has served as the associate director of DMVS since the spring of 2023. Greenfield takes over for Tom Hough on Monday, July 29, 2024, and will serve in a dual capacity as the associate director/director, until a permanent director is hired.
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  • A composite image that shows portraits of two men and a woman.

    Boylan, Simpson, Spellman named 2024 Usibelli Award winners

    August 02, 2024

    The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ has announced the recipients of the 2024 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards.
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  • Aleutians storms exhibit panels

    Museum exhibit, video series to explain Aleutian Island storm history

    August 02, 2024

    A 2022 science cruise to the Aleutian Islands to learn about ancient storms and tsunamis has generated a traveling museum exhibit and video series that highlight the research and how scientists and Indigenous ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ns worked together.
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  • Week's events: Wendy Dominique, liveability, longevity, jazz

    August 02, 2024

    ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of Aug. 5-11
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  • Mountains rise above jagged glacier ice.

    A shaky September in Yakutat Bay

    August 02, 2024

    More than a century ago, eight prospectors were panning the glacial sands near Hubbard Glacier when the Earth starting shaking and never seemed to stop. A few days later, they had survived a natural phenomenon they probably should not have.
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  • Vice Chancellor for Research Nettie La Belle-Hamer visited UAF’s Kasitsna Bay Laboratory led by professors Brenda Konar and Katrin Iken, two scientists from the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. While there, VCR La Belle-Hamer learned about various projects by undergraduate and Master's students at CFOS.

    Friday Focus: ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ - Where science happens

    August 02, 2024

    After graduating with a bachelor's degree in physics from UC Berkeley, I was looking for two things: a meaningful graduate school experience in the field of space physics as the next step in my career, and the perfect place to raise our growing family. Combining those two things gave only one clear answer: UAF. My husband, a UAF alumni, wholeheartedly agreed. We finally located a 1977 Chevy pickup truck we christened Sheba, bought an old trailer, and packed up only what would fit. Leaving behind the rest, we drove from California to ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ with our 8-month-old baby, feeling happier with every mile. Best decision we ever made. World-renowned for geophysical processes research with the global thought leaders in space physics working as faculty, UAF was and remains an aspirational graduate school destination. I am proud to be an alumna with both a Master's and Ph.D. from UAF. We love Fairbanks, UAF, and that old truck. Sheba was with us until both of our kids learned to drive her. We still talk about Sheba like a favorite, old dog. It wasn't until years afterward that I realized that coming to UAF to study the aurora in a place where the aurora happens is similar in concept to most graduate students here, regardless of their field of interest.
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  • August training spotlight: Self-care and wellness

    August 02, 2024

    This month, the UA HR's Talent Acquisition and Development team focuses on personal development and enhancing overall wellness, emphasizing the importance of self-care and nurturing the body and mind with its Self-care and Wellness Collection.
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  • Staff Alliance offers fall 2024 semester fee support

    August 02, 2024

    The UA Staff Alliance is pleased to offer a class fee scholarship for UA classes taken by staff that directly support their career or professional development. The scholarship, good for the 2024 fall semester, is for up to $250 per employee.
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  • Maddalena brings home silver for Team USA

    August 02, 2024

    Sagen Maddalena earned the silver medal in the 50m 3P Women's Final in the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. This medal was Maddalena's first-ever Olympic medal and the fifth-ever medal earned by a Nanooks rifle alum.
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  • Volcano field school

    UAF volcano field school explores 20th century's biggest eruption

    August 01, 2024

    Eight students from across the United States were the latest participants in the International Volcanological Field School, which began in the late 1980s and became a for-credit offering in 2004.
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  • Researcher Kelly Drew, with Images of Evelyn Jacome and Tyler Arnold

    Introduction to TREND Phase 0: Financial Support for SBIR Applications

    July 31, 2024

    Every year, the Technology Research Education and Development Center of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ offers the TREND Phase 0 competition that allows participants to submit a preliminary Small Business Innovation Research Phase I proposal and a request for assistance outlining how they could utilize up to $5,000 in award amount to enhance the proposal’s development.
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  • Workshop: Personal and professional boundaries

    July 31, 2024

    In this workshop delivered by ComPsych on Aug. 15 from 11 a.m. to noon, participants will learn techniques to effectively communicate boundaries and understand approaches to address and resolve internal obstacles to setting limits to experience healthy productive relationships.
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  • A wolverine with a radio collar for tracking digs into the snow as researchers stand behind it.

    BBC Mammals to feature UAF research on Aug. 3

    July 31, 2024

    The new BBC nature documentary Mammals will highlight UAF wolverine research on ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s North Slope in an upcoming episode titled "Cold".
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  • flowers in the foreground with an inflatable polar bear with an ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Nanooks logo in soft focus in the background

    UAF Day at the fair scheduled for July 30

    July 29, 2024

    The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ will host UAF Day at the Tanana Valley State Fair on Tuesday, July 30. UAF employees, students, alumni and friends will receive $1 off admission by wearing UAF apparel or showing their PolarExpress card. The day will include UAF activities throughout the fairgrounds.
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  • Green Dot sweatshirts at a spring 2024 Green Dot Brunch and Learn.

    UAF Green Dot program

    July 29, 2024

    All UAF community members deserve a life free of interpersonal violence and fear. We cannot do this work alone; we need the help of informed and trained bystanders. Several training options are available and free for university staff, faculty, and students.
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