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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.

  • Colorful red, yellow and white flowers bloom in an ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ garden

    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.

  • A bowhead whale and calf swim in an ice lead.

    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.

  • A group of people listen to a researcher talk about grain varieties in a field with university buildings in the background.

    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.

  • A large group of young people pose together outdoors in matching RAHI t-shirts.

    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.

  • A dragonfly rests on a twig.

    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.

  • A group of kids holds tomatoes in the air

    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.

  • A woman in a white lab coat opens a drawer on a museum specimen case. Other open drawers contain skulls, feathers and other specimens.

    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.

  • A man with wire frame glasses wears a blue winter parka with a dark brown wolverine ruff while facing the camera for a portrait.

    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.

  • A bunch of wild blueberries on a bush are highlighted by the sun with a spray of grass in the background.

    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 sign

    Planetarium construction begins, Murdock Trust joins project

    June 24, 2025

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

  • A jar full of corn relish is lowered into a large pot full of boiling water with other jars of relish

    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.

  • A paddle boarder floats in front of a large glacier.

    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.

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