Nanook rifle team’s ninth national title

Emil Usibelli Awards:

• Yelena Matusevich, teaching;
• A. David McGuire, research;
• Shirish Patil, public service

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

Miho Aoki: TORAY Digital Creation Award grand prize, one of the world’s biggest digital art awards

Fulbright Award: George Guthridge

International Arctic Research Center building renamed in honor of Syun-Ichi Akasofu, and Natural Sciences Facility renamed for Paul Reichardt

Leonard Kamerling’s The Drums of Winter added to National Film Registry of Library of Congress

TVC’s Aviation and Maintenance Technology Program: Federal Aviation Administration’s Diamond Certificate of Excellence

Alaska Sea Grant College Program named one of the best marine research, education and extension programs in the U.S.

$9 million from National Science Foundation to study changes in the North

More than $6.5 million from NSF for arctic research

$1.8 million from NSF to study and map circumpolar permafrost

$3.8 million from National Institutes of Health to study influenza viruses

$1.3 million from Department of Education for K–12 teacher training in second-language acquisition in Southwest Alaska

$1.8 million DOE grant to develop K–12 tsunami education program

Groundbreaking on new $32 million State Virology Lab

$500,000 from Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. for education and outreach programs

Record-setting 1,100 degrees, certificates and recommendations for licensure at Commencement 2007

Opening of the $23 million Biological Research and Diagnostic Facility

UAF’s first Alaska Book Festival

Leadership Program’s spring break trip to help rebuild post-Katrina Louisiana

Science for Alaska lecture series draws more than 5,000 Alaskans statewide

National radio broadcasts of PBS Talk of the Nation: Science Friday and Whad’Ya Know

Rural Alaska Honors Institute’s record-setting enrollment of 69 students

Alaska Summer Research Academy’s record 130 students