Welcome! Students in the College of Natural Science and Mathematics (CNSM) embark upon experiences that reach far beyond the classroom, providing a wealth of opportunities to engage in authentic learning and research opportunities which may include global, urban, rural or field settings.

Students are our passion and they have many opportunities to learn from world-renowned faculty. We offer undergraduate degrees in biological sciences, chemistry (ACS certified), earth science, general science, geology, mathematics, physics, statistics and wildlife biology. We offer graduate programs in 17 different subjects and we graduate the largest number of PhDs in the state.

Faculty, staff and students were greeted with sunny skies for the BBQ on May 10.

Sayde Ridling received the Brina Kessel Award for Excellence in Science. The award is named for Dr. Brina Kessel, a professor at the UAF for more than forty years. She devoted her life to the study of ornithology, emphasizing the birds of arctic and subarctic Alaska.

Sayde also received the Outstanding Undergraduate Student award in the Department of Biology and Wildlife.

June Champlin, Office Manager for the Geology and Geophysics Department is retiring after nearly 25 years at UAF. We wish her well in retirement.

The 2012 Science Potpourri was a great success. Thank you to all the students, staff and faculity that made it a great success.

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Click here to view a video of some of the events.

David E. Newman, Professor of Physics, was recently elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for "seminal contributions in a broad range of nonlinear problems relating to plasma turbulence, transport in fusion plasmas, and complex nonlinear systems."

The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication, or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. They may also have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the Society. Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society membership is recognized  by their peers for election to the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society.