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Michael Castellini has been named interim dean of the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, effective June 1. Castellini has served as the associate dean of SFOS since 2005.

Personal holiday leave for FY10 must be used by June 19 or it will be lost. Personal holiday leave may not be taken from Sunday, June 20 – Saturday, July 3. Personal holiday leave for FY11 will be available beginning Sunday, July 4.

The UAF Police Department reminds community members to lock parked vehicles, both on and off campus. There has been an increase in the number of reports of items stolen from parked cars, including theft of UAF parking decals. The UAF Police Department is using Nixle to provide campus safety information in real-time; sign up to have updates sent directly to your e-mail or cell phone.

The UAF Property Office is holding a public auction Saturday, June 19, at 10 a.m. at 1855 Marika Rd. The office's surplus operations will be closed June 9 – 25 for both acceptance and acquisition of surplus items. For more information call 474-6137 or 474-6139.

The Geographic Information Network of Alaska is working with the Alaska Fire Service by providing real-time satellite imagery to identify and map wildfires in Alaska.

The UAF Bookstore will be managed by Follett Bookstores by the beginning of the fall semester. Follett will be bringing textbooks back to campus, including a textbook rental program, along with an enhanced online store and a larger selection of UAF logo merchandise.

Tori Baker, Marine Advisory Program, spent the week of May 10 in Louisiana providing outreach and education for Gulf residents about the oil spill. Baker shared knowledge gained from being a commercial fisherman based in Cordova during the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Jenifer Huang McBeath, Agricultural Forestry and Experiment Station, has been appointed to the Advisory Committee on Emerging Markets of the U.S. Department of Agrigulture by Secretary Thomas Vilsack. McBeath will serve a two-year term. This is McBeath's fourth appointment to the program; she is the only Alaskan and only scientist on the committee.

Janet McClellan, College of Liberal Arts, had her book Erotophonophilia: Investigating Lust Murder published in May by Cambia Press.

Jerry McBeath, College of Liberal Arts, and Jenifer Huang McBeath, Agricultural Forestry and Experiment Station, recently published Environmental Change and Food Security in China.

UA Press has published On Sea Ice by W.F. Weeks. The book is a natural history of sea ice and a comprehensive and up-to-date account of its creation, change and function. UA Press now offers select titles as e-books, click the Buy this Book button for any title to see if it has an e-book option.

New Student Orientation is hosting the Fall 2010 Orientation Program Sunday, Aug. 29 – Wednesday, Sept. 1, with a Resource Fair Monday, Aug. 30, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. in Wood Center. Departments can register for a half table to participate in the fair and connect with incoming students. Registration is due before Friday, July 30. Donations for door prizes are also being accepted.

The Bartlett Lecture Series has selected Terry Tempest Williams as its speaker for fall 2010.

The UAF Staff Council is seeking feedback on 2010 Staff Appreciation Day and Longevity Awards with an online survey. Longevity awards recipients who have not picked up their awards need to do so by close of business Tuesday, June 1, at 312B Signers' Hall.

Websites on the www.uaf.edu domain that have not moved to Roxen will no longer be available after July 1. For more information contact the Office of Information Technology Support Center at 450-8300 or helpdesk@alaska.edu.

UAF Transportation Services provides campus shuttle service to the Large Animal Research Station, with stops at the UA Museum of the North and the Georgeson Botanical Garden, from the Wood Center bus shelter from 11:40 a.m. – 3:40 p.m., making one round trip per hour. The final pick-up at LARS is at 5 p.m. Transportation is free but reservations are required; call 474-7433 at least 15 minutes before departure time.

The UA Geography Program is offering a new course for fall 2010. The Survey of Elevation Modeling Techniques course, GEOG F293, will cover topographic mapping, contouring, hypsography and digital elevation modeling. For more information contact Keith Cunningham at kwcunningham@alaska.edu.

The Cooperative Extension Service is seeking public comment on its draft strategic plan (PDF), which will guide work for the next five years, by Tuesday, June 15.

UAF Human Resources has changed the format of new employee orientation to offer new employees a better overview of Administrative Services departments. Orientation will be a day-long event on the first and third Wednesday of each month.

Check out UAF sights and sounds, a website filled with UAF multimedia. The site includes everything from webcams and photo essays to videos and award-winning photographs in the photo gallery.

UAF safety and crime statistics are available online.

The State of Alaska Department of Transportation will be on campus in June to paint all roadway striping.

The Jasper String Quartet presents a concert Tuesday, June 1, at 8 p.m. in Davis Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 the day of the concert. For more information call Summer Sessions at 474-7021.

The 16th annual campus flower planting takes place Wednesday, June 2, from 9 a.m. – noon. Parking is free in the Nenana lot, across from the Patty Center; participants can ride the shuttle to check in with the coordinators outside Constitution Hall. Breakfast items will be served at the sign-in tables. For more information contact Cheri Renson at 474-5114 or cheri.renson@uaf.edu.

The Cooperative Extension Service in Fairbanks invites residents to bring a brown bag lunch and their questions to a lecture series on gardening. The series will run from 12:10 – 12:50 p.m. most Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, through July 16, in 108 University Park Building. See the schedule online (PDF).

Chancellor Rogers will be the auctioneer for the Design Alaska Wild Arts Walk "Quick Draw" timed arts event on Sunday, June 6, at 1:30 p.m. at Creamer's Field. The event features local artists racing against the clock to start and finish original paintings in one hour.

The Beluga Nights Concert Series, hosted by the Student Activities Office, presents the Brothers of Baladi Sunday, June 6, at 6 p.m. in Beluga Field, next to the Student Recreation Center. Admission is free. Pets must be on a leash and no alcohol is allowed.

An Evening with Neil Davis, the 2010 UAF Legacy Lecture, presented by Summer Sessions and the UAF Alumni Association, takes place Monday, June 7, at 7 p.m. in Davis Concert Hall. Admission is free.

UAF Summer Sessions hosts free movie nights this summer with Reel History – Documenting Alaska on Tuesdays June 1 – Aug. 10, beginning with Paddle to Seattle: Journey Through the Inside Passage June 1 and Gates of the Arctic: Alaska's Brooks Range June 8; and Reeling Green on Thursdays June 3 – Aug. 12, with An Inconvenient Truth June 3 and Food, Inc. June 10. All movies will be shown at 7 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium.

Discover Sustainable Alaska, a free summer lecture series presented by Summer Sessions, takes place Wednesdays, June 9 – July 7, in Schaible Auditorium. The first lecture will feature Terry Chapin, CNSM, presenting "Sustaining Alaska's Ecosystems and Cultures in a Rapidly Changing World."

The UA Museum of the North is hosting the annual TOTE Family Fun Fest Sunday, June 13, from noon – 4 p.m. For more information or to volunteer contact Peggy Hetman at 474-5360 or museum.education@uaf.edu.

Monday Marvels, free lectures with hands-on sessions presented by the Alaska Summer Research Academy faculty, take place Mondays, June 14 – Aug. 9 (no lecture on July 5), at 7 p.m. in 201 Reichardt. The series begins June 14 with "Everyday Chemistry" by Natalie Monacci, CNSM.

The UAA Department of Health Sciences is hosting free webinars. Comparative Effectiveness Research takes place Tuesday, June 15, at 2 p.m. and highlights healthcare decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits and harms of different treatment or intervention options. To register for this webinar, e-mail ankrf@uaa.alaska.edu and include CER Webinar Registration in the subject line. Introduction to Free Epidemiology Resources takes place Thursday, June 24, at 2 p.m. and highlights free, reliable sources of training materials and tools to help in using data and evidence to identify health issues, set priorities, and plan and evaluate programs. To register for this webinar, e-mail ankrf@uaa.alaska.edu and include Free Epi Webinar Registration in the subject line.

The UA Museum of the North offers 30-minute movies, Dynamic Aurora, Winter and You Are Here, throughout the day. You must purchase a $5 movie pass, in addition to museum admission, for unlimited access to all the day's shows. The museum's summer exhibit is "Then & Now: The Changing Arctic Landscape." The museum is open 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. daily May 15 – Sept. 15.

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.

The UAF Journalism Department was awarded the Alaska Press Club's Public Service Award for its coverage of the Alaska Stryker Brigade stationed in Iraq. This is the second year in a row the department has claimed this honor.

Steffi Ickert-Bond, UA Museum of the North, as co-principal investigator received a $485,000 National Science Foundation Research Coordinating Network grant to explore new ways to incorporate museum specimens-based science into undergraduate education. The project is a collaboration with the natural history museums at the University of New Mexico, University of California Berkeley and Harvard University.

Reid Brewer, Marine Advisory Program, was awarded the Hometown Hero Award by the City of Unalaska Convention and Visitors Bureau for his contribution of effort and service to tourism in the community.

Elizabeth Siddon, Ph. D. student, and Laurinda Marcello, graduate student, both with the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, each won awards at the Western Groundfish Conference held in Juneau in April. Siddon won the best student oral presentation award for her talk "Community-level response of ichthyoplankton to environmental variability in the eastern Bering Sea." Marcello won best student poster presentation for "The effects of gadoid fishes and the environment on snow crab recruitment."

June 4: Abstract submissions for the 26th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium, Ecosystems 2010: Global Progress on Ecosystems-based Fisheries Management, are due.

June 17: All requests for FY10 transfers between projects must be received by UA Foundation Accounting.

June 30: All revenue for fundraising events that occurred any time in FY10 must be deposited in the UA Foundation's bank account. All gifts physically received by a university representative by June 30 will be reported as FY10 income and credit card gifts made to the foundation will be considered FY10 revenue if transmitted to the bank by June 30.

July 30: All fundraising events held in FY10 must submit event profit and loss information to UA Foundation Accounting. All check requests for expenses incurred through June 30, 2010 must be received in Foundation Accounting. It is critical that any problems meeting these dates be communicated well in advance of the due date to Susan Freel at 450-8122 or susan.freel@alaska.edu. For more information contact Cathy Hagen at 474-2438 or c.hagen@alaska.edu, or Stephanie Strandberg at 474-5987 or slstrandberg@alaska.edu.

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