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UAF names spring 2025 honors students

July 10, 2025

The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ has announced the students named to the deans' and chancellor's lists for the spring 2025 semester. The lists recognize students' outstanding academic achievements.

Webinar to show how plants can reduce stress, improve well-being

July 10, 2025

Join Stacey Shriner, education director with the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Botanical Garden, to learn more about therapeutic horticulture and how plants can help individuals meet their social, physical and mental health goals. The free, statewide webinar is hosted by the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Cooperative Extension Service.

Whale poop links toxic algal blooms to ocean warming

July 09, 2025

Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food webs as northern oceans warm and lose sea ice.

ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ agricultural science on display at Field Days

July 08, 2025

Spend an afternoon with researchers in the fields of the experiment farms in Fairbanks or Palmer and learn about the agriculture-related science happening at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥. UAF's Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension invites farmers, gardeners and community members to tour the fields and farms and learn through presentations, tours and discussions at these free educational events.

Rural ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Honors Institute will celebrate 43rd graduation

July 07, 2025

The Rural ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Honors Institute will hold its 43rd annual graduation July 10 at 1 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium on the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Troth Yeddha' Campus. The ceremony will stream live on Facebook.

ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s state insect is not the mosquito

July 02, 2025

Thirty years ago, students from the Auntie Mary Nicoli Elementary School in Aniak were among those who held a statewide election to declare an insect that best represented ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥. Their school's winner: The dragonfly.

Week's events: Mike Thomas, chronic pain, urban muskoxen, alt-bluegrass

July 02, 2025

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 July 7-13.

Campers cook with UAF greenhouse produce

July 01, 2025

Budding chefs got a taste of science this June. Students in two cooking camps at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ used tomatoes grown during research into greenhouse productivity.

Chukchi Consortium Library to close Sept. 1

June 30, 2025

The Chukchi Consortium Library in Kotzebue will close permanently on Sept. 1, 2025. The UAF Chukchi Campus has operated the library with local contributions from the Northwest Arctic Borough since 2010. UAF made the decision to close the library due to declining state and local funding.

Museum offers behind-the-scenes tours

June 27, 2025

The University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Museum of the North is offering behind-the-scenes tours this summer. Visitors will get exclusive tours of the museum's labs and work spaces, where collection managers and curators take care of 2.5 million objects and specimens.

Week's events: Randy Zarnke, progressive rock

June 27, 2025

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 June 29-July 5.

Natural changes only part of the story

June 26, 2025

Last week, I sent out a story on changes in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ over the past few million years. The theme: Many of the transitions were drastic, and they all had nothing to do with the billions of us now walking the planet's surface.

Learn about the health benefits of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ berries

June 25, 2025

Registered dietitian and ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Cooperative Extension Service agent Leslie Shallcross will discuss the potential health benefits of eating ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥'s berries in a free statewide webinar.

Planetarium construction begins, Murdock Trust joins project

June 24, 2025

Construction has begun on a new 65-seat planetarium at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥.

Sitka workshops cover homemade food rules, canning and food preservation

June 24, 2025

Join a series of workshops in Sitka to learn about the updated rules for selling homemade foods, how to preserve vegetables by making and canning soups and pickles, and food preservation safety.

Change is the state of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥

June 20, 2025

With its melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and floating sea ice that gets tougher to see from its northern shores each summer, ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ is the poster state for global warming. Things are changing here, no doubt about it. But it's not the first time.

Week's events: Mary Ann Borchert, Foundation Health, Indigenous pedagogy, steel drums

June 20, 2025

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 June 23-29.