Facilities Services Utilities Division has taken UAF's electricity-generating turbine offline for the next 30 days for maintenance. Electricity will be purchased from Golden Valley Electric Association. Chancellor Rogers asks the campus community to reduce electrical use during this time in an effort to save money.

UAF will conduct a test of its emergency communication methods Thursday, April 30, at 1 p.m. The test will include e-mail, web, telephone and loudspeaker announcements. All announcements will be clearly identified as test messages and campuswide e-mails will come from UAF-Alert-L. For more information during the test, visit the UAF on Alert website.

Facilities Services' Building Coordinator program appoints a coordinator for each major building on campus to improve communications with faculty, staff and students. The volunteers for each building are listed in a PDF. For more information contact Marianne Freelong at mfreelong@fs.uaf.edu.

UAF's Advanced Instrumentation Laboratory is continuing its Project Seed Grants program to give researchers from all fields the opportunity to use AIL instrumentation. The next review of applications for the FY10 fiscal year begins May 18.

John Morgan, UAF English professor emeritus, was selected as the first writer-in-residence at Denali National Park. Morgan will spend 10 days living in the East Fork cabin in June and will give a reading at the park headquarters at the end of his stay.

UAF Upward Bound Classic and RAHI will participate in the Summer Food Service Program to provide meals to eligible children free of charge during each program, for the seventh consecutive year. The 2009 RAHI program takes place May 26 – July 10 and the 2009 Upward Bound Classic takes place June 5 – July 17.

Disability Services is conducting a short survey to help improve services to UAF faculty. Faculty can access the survey online. For more information or for a paper version of the survey call 474-5655.

The Regents' Recap for the board's April meeting is now available online.

The UA wellness program, UA Health in Action, is hosting free biometric screenings Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, through April 30. Register for your 10-minute screening online. UA faculty and staff will receive $50 for entering their biometric data in the Get the Point program through April 30. This incentive is for participation, not results. Those who reach Tier I in the Get the Point program will receive an additional $50. Both $50 incentives are compliments of the UA Joint Health Care Committee.

Phil Charette, UAF alumnus, is featured in a recent edition of Harvard magazine. Charette was recently on campus working with the Alaska Native Art department teaching mask making.

WIN for Alaska's Personal Wellness Profile, for those enrolled in the UA health plan, can be completed online through April 30. The profile is a brief, online questionnaire that helps identify possible health risks and provides a report to help you lower risks in problem areas. A $100 incentive is offered to participate.

The last day of instruction for the spring 2009 semester is Monday, May 4. Final exams take place Wednesday – Saturday, May 6 – 9. Residence halls close at noon on Monday, May 11. For more information visit the academic calendar online.

Jennifer Williams, business administration major, has been selected as the 2009 student commencement speaker.

The 2009 Grad Bash takes place Saturday, May 2, from 8 p.m. – 1 a.m. in the Wood Center Pub. You must be 21 to attend.

Commencement rehearsal takes place Saturday, May 9, at 10:30 a.m. at the Carlson Center. Chancellor Rogers invites graduates and their guests to the Graduate Picnic directly after rehearsal from 12:30 – 2 p.m. at Wood Center.

Commencement 2009 takes place Sunday, May 10, at the Carlson Center. The processional line-up for graduates begins at 12:20 p.m. and for faculty, administration, honorary degree recipients and stage party at 12:45 p.m. The Carlson Center opens for guests at noon. The academic procession begins at 1:20 p.m. and the graduation ceremony begins at 1:30 p.m. A commencement reception hosted by the UAF Alumni Association takes place immediately following the ceremony in the Carlson Center's Pioneer Room.

Remote sensing faculty candidate Matthias Braun presents "Introduction to Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry" Monday, April 27, at 2 p.m. and "Spaceborne SAR Remote Sensing for Environmental Applications" Tuesday, April 28, at 3 p.m., both in the GI Auditorium.

The last Music at One recitals for the spring 2009 semester take place Tuesday, April 28, and Thursday, April 30, from 1 – 2 p.m. in Davis Concert Hall. For more information call 474-7555.

The UA Museum of the North is interviewing candidates for the museum director position. Greg McDonald will present "Sloth on the Beach: An Unusual Lineage of Aquatically Adapted Ground Sloths from Peru" Tuesday, April 28, at 6 p.m. in the museum auditorium. For more information call 474-7505.

Mary Mangusso, the UAF Arthur T. Fathauer Chair of History, presents a free lecture "Anthony Dimond, Alaska and National Security," Tuesday, April 28, at 7 p.m. at Noel Wien Library.

A. Robert Smith, a journalist who covered Alaskan statehood in Congress, is UAF's writer-in-residence this week. Smith will give a free public lecture, "How Alaska Statehood has Changed America," Tuesday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium.

The UAF Wind Symphony presents its spring concert Wednesday, April 29, at 8 p.m. in Davis Concert Hall. Admission is $10 adults and $5 students, seniors and military. Children 12 and under are free. For more information call 474-7555.

The Financial Aid Office presents workshops each Thursday at 1 p.m. in 413 Gruening which are open to all students, faculty and staff. Repaying Your Student Loans takes place April 30. For more information call 474-7256.

The UA Museum of the North presents a free public lecture and book signing by John Luther Adams Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m. Adams will read from his work The Place Where You Go to Listen: In Search of an Ecology of Music. For more information call 474-7505.

The Fairbanks Symphony Association presents a solo performance by guitar virtuoso Jason Vieaux Thursday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in Salisbury Theatre. Admission is $25 adults, $20 seniors and military, and $5 students and children. For more information call 474-5733.

Percussion group Ensemble 64.8 presents its spring concert Thursday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in Davis Concert Hall. Admission is $10 adults and $5 students, seniors and military. Children 12 and under are free. For more information call 474-7555.

The Art Department hosts a pottery and printmaking sale Friday, May 1, from noon – 6 p.m. in 405 and 415 Fine Arts. This event is free and open to the public.

The University Chorus presents a concert Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m. in Davis Concert Hall. Admission is $10 adults and $5 students, seniors and military. Children 12 and under are free. For more information call 474-7555.

The Fairbanks Symphony's 50th Anniversary Concert, with guest guitarist Jason Vieaux, takes place Sunday, May 3, from 4 – 6 p.m. in Davis Concert Hall. Admission is $30 adults, $25 seniors and military and $10 students and children. A free pre-concert lecture will be held at 3 p.m. For more information call 474-5733.

Check out the UAF Weekly Science Calendar, sponsored by the Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research, for science-related events at UAF.

Visit UAF's online calendar for information on UAF events or to publicize an event.

Devin Boyer, electrical and computer engineering major, took second place in the IEEE Northwest Area Student Paper Contest.

April 30, 2009: Nominations for the Chancellor's Diversity Award are due. For more information contact Juella Sparks at fnjs@uaf.edu or Jane Weber at ffjw@uaf.edu.

May 20, 2009:  Updates for the UAF directory are due. Review proofs online. Please update your information in EDIR or notify your administrative contact with any changes. For more information contact Kim Davis at fyphone@uaf.edu.

Cornerstone banner photo by Todd Paris, UAF Marketing and Communications.