Ad Summum
Chancellor's Report 2007
Year in Review
HONORS AND AWARDS
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Nanook rifle team’s ninth national title
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- Yelena Matusevich, teaching;
- A. David McGuire, research;
- Shirish Patil, public service
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Newshounds:
- KUAC’s two regional Emmy and three regional Edward R. Murrow awards,
- multiple Alaska Press Club awards.
- Student newspaper’s Alaska Press Club awards.
- Online student publication’s Society of Professional Journalists regional award
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Miho Aoki: TORAY Digital Creation Award grand prize, one of the world’s biggest digital art awards
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Fulbright Award: George Guthridge
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International Arctic Research Center building renamed in honor of Syun-Ichi Akasofu, and Natural Sciences Facility renamed for Paul Reichardt
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Leonard Kamerling’s The Drums of Winter added to National Film Registry of Library of Congress
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TVC’s Aviation and Maintenance Technology Program: Federal Aviation Administration’s Diamond Certificate of Excellence
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Alaska Sea Grant College Program named one of the best marine research, education and extension programs in the U.S.
NEW GROWTH, NEW POTENTIAL
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$9 million from National Science Foundation to study changes in the North
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More than $6.5 million from NSF for arctic research
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$1.8 million from NSF to study and map circumpolar permafrost
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$3.8 million from National Institutes of Health to study influenza viruses
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$1.3 million from Department of Education for K–12 teacher training in second-language acquisition in Southwest Alaska
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$1.8 million DOE grant to develop K–12 tsunami education program
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Groundbreaking on new $32 million State Virology Lab
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$500,000 from Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. for education and outreach programs
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Record-setting 1,100 degrees, certificates and recommendations for licensure at Commencement 2007
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Opening of the $23 million Biological Research and Diagnostic Facility
CAMPUS CONNECTIONS: ACROSS TOWN, ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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UAF’s first Alaska Book Festival
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Leadership Program’s spring break trip to help rebuild post-Katrina Louisiana
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Science for Alaska lecture series draws more than 5,000 Alaskans statewide
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National radio broadcasts of PBS Talk of the Nation: Science Friday and Whad’Ya Know
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Rural Alaska Honors Institute’s record-setting enrollment of 69 students
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Alaska Summer Research Academy’s record 130 students
