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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. 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.

Flora Grabowska was recently named the new librarian and research assistant professor at the Geophysical Institute's Keith B. Mather Library.

The Regents Recap for the UA Board of Regents Sept. 23 – 24 meeting is now available online. The board's next meeting will be in Anchorage Tuesday, Nov. 9, for budget approval.

The UAF Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the UAF Women’s Center and the UAF Committee on the Status of Women invite faculty, lecturers and instructors from any UAF unit to submit a paper proposal for our biannual Women’s and Gender Studies panel, “Where Are the Women?,” to be held in December. The purpose of the panel is to examine UAF institutional practices related to the employment, retention and promotion of women faculty, lecturers and instructors. Each speaker will offer a five-minute opening presentation and then will engage in discussion with the audience and the other panelists. Please submit a 250-word abstract of your presentation by Friday, Nov. 5, to tsyork@alaska.edu.

Wood Center has digital screens which can be used to advertise events. An ad can be displayed on the large screens for free but the content must not be a personal ad or advertise off-campus activities, and it must be digital screen-ready. For more information contact Jeri Maxwell at 474-1936 or jmaxwell@alaska.edu.

The UAF Development Office kicks off its inaugural student Phonathon Wednesday, Nov. 3. The five-week, grassroots effort is part of the Annual Giving program and will connect current students to UAF alumni and friends via telephone. For more information call 474-2619.

The UAF Bookstore is holding a buck-a-book promotion, all marked-down general books are on sale for $1. For more information call 474-6858. 

The Rasmuson and Biosciences Libraries are seeking input from graduate and undergraduate students via an online survey that takes about 15 minutes and includes an opportunity to enter a drawing for an iPad. For more information contact Karen Jensen at karen.jensen@alaska.edu.

The UAF National Student Exchange program program information meetings are held every Tuesday and Thursday at 1:05 p.m. in 113 Eielson, beginning Nov. 2. A special evening session will be held Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Hess Rec Center, food will be provided. Come to an information session to learn more about exciting opportunities for UAF students to study at participating schools in the Lower 48, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada. Reserve your spot at an upcoming session. For more information contact Megan Allen at 474-5809 or e-mail uaf.nse@alaska.edu.

If you see an area on campus that is unsafe for pedestrians due to ice or snow, please report it to 474-7000.

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.

The Academic Advising Center hosts Student Success workshops throughout the academic year including Graduate School and Pre-professional Information Tuesday, Oct. 26, and Resume Writing Thursday, Oct. 28. All workshops are from 1:05 – 1:55 p.m. in 409 Gruening. For more information call 474-6396.

The Alaska Invasive Species Conference (PDF) takes place Tuesday – Thursday, Oct. 26 – 28, at the Fairbanks Princess Riverside Lodge. A pre-conference public lecture by John Peter Thompson will be Monday, Oct. 25, at 6:30 p.m. in the Pearl Berry Boyd Lecture Hall, 201 Reichardt Building. The conference is sponsored by the Cooperative Extension Service, Fairbanks and Salcha-Delta Soil and Water Conservation Districts, U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Alaska Department of Transportation and National Park Service. For more information or to register (PDF) contact Ronda at 474-2450 or rlhalvarson@alaska.edu.

The UA Health In Action program is hosting a flu shot clinic Wednesday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. in 212-A Butrovich Building. This year's flu shot is a combination vaccine for seasonal flu and H1N1. The cost is $25 and payments must be made via cash or check. Vaccinations will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. No appointment is necessary. The clinic is presented by WIN for Alaska and Carrs Safeway.

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.

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 Financial Aid Office presents Finan˘ial $ense, a series of workshops held each Thursday at 1 p.m. in 408 Gruening. The workshops are open to all faculty, staff, alumni and students. University Scholarships takes place Oct. 28 and Saving Money takes place Nov. 4. For more information contact Ashley Munro at 474-1934 or ashley.munro@alaska.edu.

The Office of Faculty Development, the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences and the Physics Department present "How the Mind Tricks Us: Visualizations and Visual Illusions," a presentation by Eric Mazur, Harvard University, Thursday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. in 201 Reichardt Building. The public is invited to this event.

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.

Celebrate Halloween at the UA Museum of the North Friday, Oct. 29, from 4 – 7 p.m. Children 12 and under, along with a supervising adult, are invited to see bats, birds, bugs and more in the museum's research labs. Admission is one can of food per person, which will all be donated to the Fairbanks Community Food Bank.

Wood Center is hosting a weird and creepy family Halloween bash, for children 12 and under with adult supervision, Saturday, Oct. 30, from 4 – 6 p.m. Come out and enjoy fishing in the piranha pond, pumpkin bowling, face painting and other activities. Admission is one can of food per person. For more information call Julene at 474-7037.

Residence Life is hosting a Halloween children's carnival in Hess Rec Center Saturday, Oct. 30, from 5 – 7 p.m. and trick-or-treating in Moore and Bartlett Halls Saturday, Oct. 30, from 5:30 – 7 p.m. Trick-or-treaters will meet in the MBS lobby and be escorted through the buildings.

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.

The Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra, with pianist Jura Margulis, hosts an all Tchaikovsky concert Sunday, Oct. 31, at 4 p.m. in Davis Concert Hall. Tickets are $30 adult, $25 seniors and military, and $10 student or child. For more information call 474-5733.

Veteran journalist Willy Stern will give a free public lecture Thursday, Nov. 4, at 6 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium. The topic is "Inside Afghanistan's Secret Prisons: As Told By The Only Journalist To Have Been Inside These Facilities." The lecture is sponsored by the UA Geography Program, UAF Student Services, Chancellor's Office, Summer Sessions and the Office of International Programs.

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 UAF Yoga Club will host a yoga workshop by Sarahjoy Marsh Saturday, Nov. 6, from 9 – 11 a.m and 2 – 6 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 7, from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the UPark Gym. The fee is $135 before Oct. 27 or $150 after. For more information contact 479-8006 or marthaspringer@gmail.com.

Alaska Sea Grant hosts the 26th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium, Ecosystems 2010: Global Progress on Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management, Nov. 8 – 11 in Anchorage.

Student Activities and Career Services is hosting a free Veterans Day event with a showing of Tattooed Under Fire followed by a question and answer session with the producer/director Nancy Schiesari Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom. For more information contact Cody Rogers at 474-6026 or cbrogers@alaska.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.

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 UA Geography Program celebrates Geography Awareness Week Nov. 15 – 20 with activities in local schools and a GeoFest family fun day Saturday, Nov. 20, at Effie Kokrine Charter School. For more information or to volunteer to help with these events contact Wanda Tangermann at 474-7494 or wrtangermann@alaska.edu.

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 are at 6 p.m. in the media classroom, 340 Rasmuson Library. The sessions are free but 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.

Nanook hockey claimed its second consecutive Brice Alaska Goal Rush title Oct. 16.

Join the Nanooks in Think Pink, Wear Pink at the home games Oct. 25 – 29 to show your support of breast cancer awareness.

Nanook volleyball takes on Seattle Pacific Thursday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. and Montana State Billings Saturday, Oct. 30, at 3 p.m. Both games take place in the Patty Center gym.

Nanook hockey faces off with Bowling Green Friday, Oct. 29, and Saturday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. in the Carlson Center.

The Alaska Nanook athletic event scores from last week are: Home games – swimming vs. University of Nebraska-Omaha, 92-169 and vs. Simon Fraser University, 76-122; rifle vs. Tennessee Martin, 4656-4553, and 4667-4570. Away games – volleyball vs. Simon Fraser, 2-3, and vs. Western Washington, 0-3; hockey vs. Michigan State, 1-1 and 1-4.

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