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Keith A. Echelmeyer, professor of geophysics, emeritus, died at his home Oct. 2. A celebration of his life will take place in the Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom, Sunday, Oct. 24, at 1 p.m. For more information contact Ned Rozell at nrozell@gi.alaska.edu.

UA is implementing a new cell phone policy effective Nov. 1. The university will no longer provide cell phones or directly pay cell phone providers for cell phones for university employees. Instead, the university will provide a taxable stipend to qualified employees to offset the business use of their personal cell phones ($30/month for voice or $65/month for voice/data). Detailed information on the new policy is available online.

UAF’s 2010 United Way campaign is under way. Human Resources is distributing contribution forms. Your department will be contacted to set up agency presentations for your unit, or you can contact co-chair Forrest Karr, Athletics and Campus Recreation, at 474-6812 or flkarr@alaska.edu prior to Oct. 22 to arrange for a brief presentation. When you return a completed United Way form to UAF HR, your name will be entered into a pool for a drawing to take place at noon Wednesday, Nov. 3.

Since Oct. 1 the UAF Sustainability program has diverted 12,920 pounds of would-be garbage from the landfill to K+K Recycling in North Pole, including 1,360 pounds of plastic. UAF recycled 7,380 pounds of paper during the second week of the paper and cardboard recycling program, an increase of 3,200 pounds since week one. For more information contact Michele Hebert at 388-6085, 474-5070 or mahebert@alaska.edu.

Bert Boyer has been named director of the Center for Alaska Native Health Research within the Institute of Arctic Biology.  Boyer has served as acting director since February.  He will present an overview of CANHR at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention in Fairbanks Friday, Oct. 22. For more information contact Diana Campbell at 474-5221or dlcampbell@alaska.edu.

Ray RaLonde, Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, taught aquaculture techniques in Ketchikan Oct. 11 –15 as part of a National Sea Grant/Alaska Sea Grant project to boost the number of oyster and other shellfish farms in Southeast Alaska.

The U.S. Coast Guard Academy named Lawson Brigham, School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, as its 2010 distinguished alumnus of the year, the highest honor bestowed by the academy. The award was presented by Rear Adm. Richard Larrabee, USCGA Alumni Association chairman of the board, at a ceremony at the academy in New London, Conn., last month.

A new Alaska Sea Grant SEAgram information bulletin by Greg Fisk, a fishing industry consultant based in Juneau, takes on the pros and cons of fishing vessel propulsion alternatives. The SEAgram is available as a free PDF download from the Alaska Sea Grant bookstore.

Mindy Krzykowski, a senior physics major in the College of Natural Science and Mathematics, received the best poster award at the Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics in Lincoln, Neb. Krzykowski's presentation, “Identifying and characterizing VxB events from the Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment (SIDE) of the Apollo 14 Mission,” resulted from her work last summer in the Lunar and Planetary Science Academy at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which was supported by the Alaska Space Grant program. Her travel to the conference was supported by grants from the vice chancellor for research and the CNSM student travel fund. Krzykowski has been an active member of the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program throughout her time at UAF. For more information about the Alaska Space Grant program contact Denise Thorsen at dlthorsen@alaska.edu. For more information about ANSEP please contact Tom Clausen at tpclausen@alaska.edu.

Photographs by Robin Wood and Marge Thompson, Rasmuson Library, are included in the Fairbanks Arts Association's 25th annual "64th Parallel" juried art show in the Bear Gallery at Pioneer Park. The exhibit continues through Saturday, Oct. 30.

Nancy Lord will present a lecture, "Alaska in Writing: Where We've Been, Where We Might Be Going, and Further Reflections on the Literary Voices That Tell Us Who We Are" as an Alaska Book Festival special event Monday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium.

The Academic Advising Center hosts Student Success workshops throughout the academic year including DegreeWorks Tuesday, Oct. 19, and Identify Your Interests — Pursue Them in Life Thursday, Oct. 21. All workshops are held from 1:05 – 1:55 p.m. in 409 Gruening. For more information call 474-6396.

The Alaska Center for Energy and Power will host a community lecture on “Preparing Your Home for Winter: Options for Residents and Businesses,” Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 6 p.m. at the Blue Loon on the Parks Highway. Speakers will include experts from Alaska Energy Authority, Interior Weatherization, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation and the Cold Climate Housing Research Center. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information contact Julie Estey at 474-1144 or julie.estey@alaska.edu.

Staff Council meets Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 8:45 a.m. in the Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom. A teleconference option is available at 1-800-893-8850, PIN: 8244236. Staff Council's newsletter for October 2010 is now available online.

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy will host a statewide webinar Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 10 a.m. The webinar will focus on case studies showing how natural resource policy might be implemented to support subsistence and community livelihoods in Alaska. Philip Loring, Institute of Northern Engineering, will be available to answer questions. Registration and dial-in instructions are online. For more information contact Brook Gamble at 474-7812 or accap@uaf.edu.

Career Services is sponsoring a job-search webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Wood Center conference room A from 11 a.m. – noon. Students are encouraged to attend. For more information contact Career Services at 474-7596 or careerservices@uaf.edu.

The Financial Aid Office presents Finan˘ial $ense, a series of workshops held each Thursday at 1:05 p.m. in 408 Gruening. The workshops are open to all faculty, staff, alumni and students. Understanding Credit takes place Oct. 21, University Scholarships takes place Oct. 28 and Saving Money will be Nov. 4. Workshops can also be scheduled for a group or to replace a canceled class. For more information contact Ashley Munro at 474-1934 or ashley.munro@alaska.edu.

The Student Leadership Conference takes place Friday – Saturday, Oct. 22 – 23. This year's theme is Positive Sustainable Change. There will be workshops for student organizations, speakers, free food and opportunities for participants to improve leadership skills. For more information call 474-1170 or e-mail leadership@uaf.edu.

The School of Education will host an orientation for the special education teaching certificate and master's degree programs Saturday, Oct. 23, at 11 a.m. in 160 University Park Building. For more information call 474-5362 or e-mail jmmonahan@alaska.edu.

The UAF Natural Resources, Fisheries and Sciences Career Day, hosted by Career Services, takes place Wednesday, Oct. 27, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. in Wood Center. Federal, state and private employers will be on hand to discuss employment and internship opportunities. There will be an employer panel from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. and 1 – 2 p.m. For more information call 474-7596.

The Northern Leadership Center presents a Susan Herman Distinguished Speaker Series lecture, "The Paradoxes of Leadership," by Thomas Cronin, president emeritus of Whitman College, Monday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium. For more information contact the Northern Leadership Center at fynlc@uaf.edu or call 474-5942.

School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences affiliate faculty and NOAA fisheries biologist Mandy Lindeberg will give a lecture on Alaska's seaweeds Wednesday, Oct. 27, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. at the Institute of Marine Science, 201 O'Neill Building. Lindeberg will sign copies of her new book, Field Guide to Alaska Seaweeds, published by Alaska Sea Grant.

The Office of Faculty Development will host Professor Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, for a series of lectures and workshops on campus Oct. 28 and 29. Mazur specializes in science education and is one of the pioneers of using peer teaching in the classroom. For more information contact Joy Morrison at jfmorrison@alaska.edu.

The 2010 Holiday Historical Photograph Reprint sale takes place Friday and Saturday, Nov. 5 – 6, from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. in the Rasmuson Library Kayak Room. Purchase reproductions of some of the archive's most popular photographs and rare maps. For more information call 474-6344.

The Student Activities Office hosts Pop-con Nov. 12 – 13 in the Wood Center.  Pop-con will include workshops on drawing comic books and creating 8-bit music documentaries, music and chiptunes, and vendors will buy, sell or trade comics. For more information call 474-6029 or e-mail fysao@uaf.edu.

The Midnight Sun Writers Series presents Sherry Simpson reading her original essays Friday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. in the UA Museum of the North auditorium.

Pamela Couzin, State of Alaska Division of Retirement and Benefits, will be on campus the week of Nov. 15 – 19 to provide individual retirement counseling appointments and two evening workshops on the retirement process. Individual sessions are scheduled by appointment only and fill up very quickly. Call UAF HR at 474-7700 to schedule your session. Contact the Division of Retirement and Benefits at 1-800-821-2251 to request a retirement projection prior to your session. The PERS retirement process evening session takes place Wednesday, Nov. 17, and the TRS retirement process evening session takes place Thursday, Nov. 18; both session are at 6 p.m. in the media classroom, 340 Rasmuson Library. Registration is required; enroll for either session at the links provided.

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 Alaska Nanook athletic event scores from last week are: Home games - volleyball vs. Anchorage, 1-3.

Oct. 22: Nominations for the fall 2010 UAF Exceptional Student Employee Award are due. For more information call Career Services at 474-7596.

Oct. 25: Student proposals for fall 2010 RISE (Review of Infrastructure, Sustainability and Energy) sustainability proposals are due. Guidelines for proposals can be found online. For more information call 474-6533.

Oct. 29: Deadline to apply for Alaska Space Grant fellowships and scholarships. Research fellowships, education research fellowships and undergraduate scholarships are available.

Nov. 1: Pre-proposals for the NASA EPSCoR Research Cooperative Agreement Notice are due.

Nov. 8: Applications for Alaska EPSCoR award programs for spring 2011 are due by 5 p.m. Students and faculty at all UA campuses are encouraged to apply. Awards include travel grants, undergraduate and graduate research awards, and integrative faculty development awards. More information on the awards and application forms is available online or by calling 474-5989 or 474-5581.

Dec. 1: Nominations for the Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence are due.

Dec. 15: Proposals for the Angus Gavin Memorial Migratory Bird Research Grant are due.

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