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UAF won three awards from the 18th Annual Admissions Advertising Awards given by the Admission Marketing Report. The Admissions website won gold in the Internet/World Wide Web category, the recruiting video won silver in the video viewbook category and the recruiting poster won silver in the poster category.

UAF is hosting three Fulbright Visiting Scholars this academic year. Anthony Booth from South Africa has been appointed to the 2002 - 2003 Meek Professorship with SFOS and is teaching graduate courses in fish population dynamics. Olga Butorina from Russia is working with the UA Museum and IAB on the molecular evolution and ecology of birds. Helena Storchova from the Czech Republic is studying the genetic structure of plants while working with Matt Olsen, IAB.

The UAF rifle team appears well on its way to a fifth straight NCAA championship after a recent win over West Virginia. The UAF smallbore team set a West Virginia range record and an unofficial NCAA record with a score of 4,757. The team's combined score of 6,318 was another range record and the third time this season that UAF has scored more than 6,300 points. Many team members marked personal bests at this competition, including Jamie Beyerle, who joined teammate Matt Emmons as the only shooters in NCAA history to shoot above 1,190 in smallbore.

Gov. Frank Murkowski has appointed Cynthia Henry, James Hayes and Mike Snowden to the UA Board of Regents.Gov. Murkowski also endorsed the appointments of Mary Hughes and student regent Derek Miller of UAF. The next board meeting takes place Feb. 20 -21 in Juneau. For more information about the appointments or the agenda for the next meeting visit www.alaska.edu/bor/.

Poker Flat Research Range successfully launched the first rocket of the 2003 season on Jan. 27. The Terrier-Black Brant IX rocket captured measurements of high-frequency wave signals related to the aurora for the high bandwidth auroral rocket experiment.

Codes and Safety has officially changed its name to Environmental Health & Safety and Risk Management. The new department includes Codes and Safety and Facility Services Hazardous Materials Division employees as well as the UAF risk manager. The search for a director of the new department has resumed.

The UA Museum was recently presented with a $25,000 gift by Mt. McKinley Bank for the museum's expansion fund. Mt. McKinley Bank joins nearly 700 other companies, foundations and individuals who have contributed to the museum.

Raven's Quest Summer Institute is an eight-week program open to UA students who are interested in a behavioral health career in rural Alaska. The institute includes classes, job shadowing, workshops and guest speakers and takes place on the UAA campus June 2 - Aug. 1. Students will receive a $480 per week stipend and can earn up to six credits. Applications are being accepted through March 15. For more information contact Janice Troyer at (907) 786-6592 or visit www.ichs.uaa.alaska.edu/acrh/ravensquest/.

Show off your Nanook pride! Replace that worn out desktop image with a free UAF downloadable desktop available at www.uaf.edu/univrel/desktops/.

UAF's online newsroom is your source for campus news and information. Find out what's happening at www.uaf.edu/news/.

In compliance with federal requirements, the safety and crime statistics for UAF are available online at www.uaf.edu/police/crime.html.

Residence Life is hosting a sexual assault awareness program Feb. 7 at 9 p.m. in Hess Rec. Center.

The Alaska Day of Percussion features clinics, workshops and demonstrations about percussion and drumming Feb. 8 at 9 a.m. and a grand concert at 8 p.m. in the Davis Concert Hall. Admission to the clinics is $10 for the day and includes a pass to the concert. Concert admission is $10 for adults, $5 for students and children 12 and under. For more information contact Scott Deal at 1873 or ffwsd@uaf.edu.

The UAF Leadership in Action Seminar series presents "What's this Leadership Thing all About?" by Mike Powers Feb. 13 and "Disciplined Self-Development: The Heart of Leadership Development" by Joe Kan Feb. 20. Both lectures are from 1 - 2 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium. For more information visit www.uaf.edu/gradsch/guestbook/events.html.

The Office of Multicultural Affairs presents motivational speaker Walter D. Smith's talk "Against All Odds" Feb. 14 from 4 - 5:30 p.m. in the Signers' Hall Lobby. For more information call 7300.

The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour visits UAF Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. in the Davis Concert Hall. Admission for students is $8 in advance, $10 at the door. The cost for the general public is $10 in advance and $12 at the door. For more information call 6029.

Outdoor Adventures invites you to go ice fishing Feb. 15. The cost is $23 for students and $27 for faculty, staff or alumni. For more information contact 6027 or fywild@uaf.edu.

The UAF Alumni Association Wine Tasting 2003 is Feb. 15 from 6 - 8 p.m. in the Wood Center Pub. You must be 21 to attend. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. For more information call 7081.

The Coastal Marine Institute's Annual Research Review will be held Feb. 19 from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. in the Regents' Conference Room, Butrovich 109. For more information contact Maggie Billington at 7707 or maggie@sfos.uaf.edu or visit www.sfos.uaf.edu/cmi/.

The UA Museum presents "Made in Fairbanks: Gifts of Imagination" a lecture by guest curators Wanda Chin, David Mollett, Glen Simpson and Frank Soos on Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. Admission is free. For more information call 7505.

Slam poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph is leading a slam poetry workshop Feb. 19 at 8 p.m. in Hess Rec. Center and will perform Feb. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom. For more information call 6029 or visit www.uaf.edu/activity/.

Staff Council and the Office of Multicultural Affairs present a forum on institutional climate Feb. 21 from 1 - 3 p.m. in the Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom. For more information call 7300.

The next Life in the Cold conference will be held July 25 - 31, 2004 on a seven-day cruise through the inside passage from Vancouver, British Columbia to Seward. For more information or to register visit www.alaska.edu/litc/.

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UAF hockey's next home games have the Nanooks facing off against the University of Nebraska Omaha Feb. 7 and 8 at 7 p.m. in the Carlson Center.

UAF women's basketball takes on Western Oregon Feb. 13 and Humboldt State Feb. 15. Both games are at 6 p.m. in the Patty Center.

UAF men's basketball competes against Seattle Pacific Feb. 13 and Western Washington Feb. 15. Both games are at 8 p.m. in the Patty Center.

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Feb. 14, 2003: Deadline to apply for graduation. Applications and fees are due by the close of business on Feb. 15 for anyone expecting to graduate in May. Forms are available at the Registrar's Office or online at www.uaf.edu/reg/. For more information call 7253.

Feb. 14, 2003: Deadline for nominations for the Marion Frances Boswell Memorial Award, the Joel Wiegert Award and the Gray Tilly Memorial Award. Nomination forms are available at the Wood Center front desk or online at www.uaf.edu/woodctr/programs/awards/.

Feb. 14, 2003: Deadline to submit applications for the 2003 -2004 UAF Privately Funded Scholarships. For more information or an application visit www.uaf.edu/giving/scholarships/.

Feb. 18, 2003: Deadline to submit an entry to the 2003 Chancellor's Holiday Card Contest. The contest is open to any UAF student who has taken at least three credits in the last year. First prize is $150 and 25 copies of the card. Submit entries to Chris Bennett, 317 Signers' Hall. For more information e-mail chris.bennett@uaf.edu.

Feb. 28, 2003: Deadline to submit abstracts to the 3rd International Mammoth Conference. The conference takes place May 24 - 29 in Dawson City and Whitehorse, Canada. For more information visit www.yukonmuseums.ca/mammoth/.

March 7, 2003: Deadline to apply for the 2003 Global Change Student Research Grant Competition. For more information or an application visit www.cgc.uaf.edu.

March 7, 2003: Deadline to submit nominations for the Make Students Count Awards. President Hamilton will present this year's awards during the June 5 - 6 board of regents meeting in Fairbanks. For more information visit http://gov.alaska.edu/staff/.

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from Mark Neumayr
The Future of IT at UAF

Information Technology affects every employee and student at UAF. Our abilities to communicate, to complete homework assignments, even to get paid, often rely upon the equipment and people providing electronic services. UAF has invested heavily in information technology, and we're usually listed among Yahoo's "Most Wired" universities. Yet we know that we have shortcomings.

Our first step in addressing them was commissioning Alex Hills of Carnegie Mellon University to study our IT environment and to make suggestions for improvements. His report was released to the UAF community during the week of January 25. The chancellor will now appoint a small team to gather comments on Hills' report and to propose an "action plan" for UAF.

The next step in providing modern, efficient IT services at UAF will not be cheap, so we have to ensure that we invest wisely. Please study the report, available online at www.uaf.edu/dcc/it/, and send your comments to the provost's office. It's a chance for you to help mold the future at UAF.

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