Facilities Services is working along Yukon Drive to repair cracked asphalt and to install new and update existing sidewalks. Work will continue through Aug. 6. For more information visit www.uaf.edu/fs/.
The UA Board of Regents met June 6-7 in Fairbanks. The board approved total budget increases of an additional $2 million for the Arctic Health Revitalization and an additional $1.7 million for the SFOS Lena Point Facility. The board's next meeting is Sept. 18-19 in Anchorage. For more information visit www.alaska.edu/bor/.
Chancellor Jones was recently appointed to serve a three-year, renewable term on the board of governors for the Council of the University of the Arctic.
GI's unmanned aircraft system, UAS, competed its first scheduled campaign of the year taking photos of the Stewart Creek impact area in June. The images will be used by the U.S. Army Alaska Garrison to map wildfire fuels growing in the area. The UAS is based at Poker Flat Research Range.
The OIT desktop technology refreshment funds, Tech Refresh, are now available for FY08. For more information contact 6288, techrefresh@uaf.edu or visit www.uaf.edu/oit/services/.
Larry Duffy, CNSM, has accepted the position of interim dean of the Graduate School. Duffy was recently elected a fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America.
SFOS is hosting a new website to help bring more rural Alaskans and Alaska Natives into fisheries and marine science careers. The Future Alaskan in Fisheries and Marine Science website is www.sfos.uaf.edu/future/.
Deanna Dieringer, Financial Aid, has accepted the university registrar position and will begin her new duties about July 30.
Cheri Renson is the new events coordinator at University Relations. Renson began her duties in June.
UAF HR has several new people in the office. Julie Closuit, Kate Leahy, Julie Shalvoy and Pearl Steele have all recently joined the team.
Abhijit Biswas', OEM, nanotechnology research was featured in the online magazine Nanowerk.
GI and Alaska Volcano Observatory faculty and students are processing data to help reroute air traffic around dangerous volcanic ash clouds from the Klyuchevskoy volcano eruption, which began June 28 and is the largest eruption to occur in the North Pacific in a decade.
Read about the Pinbone Wizard, a machine built by the GI machine shop to remove pinbones from fish during processing in small-scale operations, in the latest online feature story at www.uaf.edu/news/featured/07/pinbone/.
The Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival runs through July 29. The festival is hosting numerous activities including the ACS Lunch Bites with free music weekdays at 12:15 p.m. in the Great Hall, Cabaret July 23 at 9:30 p.m. in the Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom for $5 admission, and Jazz at the Pub July 24 at 9:30 p.m. in the UAF Pub with $10 admission for those 21 and older. For more information visit www.fsaf.org. UPDATE: Jazz at the Pub has been changed to Jazz at the Ballroom and will be held in the Wood Center Carol Brown Ballroom.
The UA Museum of the North is featuring multiple special exhibits this summer including Lance Mackey's 2007 Yukon Quest and 2007 Iditarod trophies through Sept. 15; On the Edge: Forging New Directions in Alaska Native Art through Sept. 30; and From Sea to Shining Sea: 200 Years of Charting America's Coasts, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Survey of the Coast, the predecessor to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration through Dec. 31. For more information call 7505 or visit www.uaf.edu/museum/.
Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre presents Antony and Cleopatra July 26-28 at 7:30 p.m. and July 29 at 2 p.m. at Jack Townshend Point, behind the Reichardt Building (Natural Sciences Facility). Admission is $18 adults, $15 students, seniors and military and under 18 is free. For more information visit www.fairbanks-shakespeare.org.
Outdoor Adventures is sponsoring summer trips including dinner hike--Chena Dome July 27, an Upper Chena canoe trip July 29, Murphy Dome berry picking Aug. 9, whitewater rafting and day hike Aug. 11 and Wrangells backpacking Aug. 16. For more information visit www.uaf.edu/outdoor/.
An ice cream social takes place each Thursday from noon-2 p.m. in front of the Wood Center. Come out and enjoy $1 ice cream cones and free music.
The UAF Summer Sessions' Health Seminar Series presents Maria Trozzi, director of the Good Grief Program at Boston Medical Center, with seminars on "The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting Adolescents" July 30 at 7 p.m. in the Davis Concert Hall with free admission and "Strategies that Promote Resilience in Our Adolescents as They Face Loss" July 31 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. with a $60 seminar fee, which includes lunch. For more information call 7021 or visit www.uaf.edu/summer/events/.
The Discovering Alaska lecture series, sponsored by Summer Sessions, takes place Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium through Aug. 15. Speakers include Ned Rozell Aug. 1, Susan Grace Aug. 8 and Mike Sfraga Aug. 15. For more information call 7021 or visit www.uaf.edu/summer/events/.
The Tanana Valley State Fair takes place Aug. 3-11. UAF Day at the fair is Aug. 3; wear UAF logo items for $1 off admission. For information about UAF activities at the fair visit www.uaf.edu/univrel/events/fair/.
Summer Sessions presents free summer movie nights Tuesdays through Aug. 14 at 6 p.m. and Thursdays through Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium. For more information visit www.uaf.edu/summer/.
The Office of Information Technology is hosting training opportunities throughout the summer, including Excel 3 Aug. 2, QMenu Aug. 7 and Qadhoc and Introduction to Blackboard Aug. 14. For more information or to register visit www.uaf.edu/oit/training/.
UA Statewide's advertising campaign, uareelworld.com, won a gold and two silver medals from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The entire campaign won gold, with a silver for three television spots and a silver for a single print spot. The uareelworld.com campaign also won three national awards, a gold, silver and bronze, from Admissions Marketing Awards. For more information visit www.alaska.edu/opa/.
Debendra Das, CEM, received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Alaska Chapter for his service to the board on NAMI Fairbanks Affiliate for the past 14 years.
Sean-Bob Kelly, SFOS graduate student, was chosen as a 2008 National Sea Grant Knauss Fellow. Kelly will begin his one-year fellowship in Feb. 2008 in Washington D.C.
Mary Parsons, CNSM, was chosen by President Hamilton as the UAF winner of the Make Students Count award.
The 2006-2007 Dennis Demmert Award recipients are: Jean Carlo, CLA; Deanna Dieringer, Financial Aid; Sasha Dixon, ANSEP; James Stone, ANSEP; and Crystal Whittle, Student Activities.
The UAF MicroMouse team won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers North Area MicroMouse competition in Boise, Idaho in April. For more information visit www.uaf.edu/ece/news/.
Stefanie Bourne, GI and CNSM graduate student, was selected as an attendee to the International Summer School on Northern Latitude Climate being held Sept. 9-13 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
John Morgan, English professor emeritus, was awarded a $12,000 Artist Fellowship by the Rasmuson Foundation.
Michael "Doc" DelCastillo, former University of Nebraska-Omaha assistant coach, is the new UAF hockey coach. The team's 2007-2008 season includes the Face-Off Club's annual Blue and Gold game Sept. 29, followed by an exhibition game against Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Oct. 6. The official start to the season kicks off with the opening series of the Governor's Cup in Anchorage Oct. 19-20 and the Nanooks' first home series takes place Nov. 2-3 against Michigan State.
Aug. 2, 2007: Nominations for the Distinguished Alumnus Award, the Alumni Achievement Awards and the William R. Cashen Service Award are due. For more information call 7081 or visit www.uaf.edu/alumni/.
RAHI Celebrates 25 Years
The Rural Alaska Honors Institute is a six-week college preparatory summer bridge program held on the Fairbanks campus for Alaska Native and rural high school juniors and seniors. Students receive college credit for classes taken during the summer session, carrying an average load of 8.3 credits and earning an average grade point average of 2.6. In its 25th summer, RAHI is celebrating a quarter century of educational success.
An April 2006 report by the American Institutes for Research through the National Science Foundation found that "Rural Alaska Native students in the UA system are nearly twice as likely to earn a bachelor's degree than those who did not attend RAHI."
To date, the following degrees have been earned by some of the more than 1,200 RAHI participants: 41 certificates; 93 associate degrees; 223 bachelor's degrees; 29 master's degrees; and seven Ph.D.'s, M.D.'s or professional degrees.
This spring, RAHI students earned five certificates, 19 bachelor's degrees (including five engineering degrees), two master's degrees and one doctor of pharmacy. This year there are 22 RAHI Alaska Scholars. Within the UA system in spring 2007, there were about two former RAHI students at UAS, 40 at UAA and 145 at UAF.
In looking at the RAHI cohort, deleting those students who haven't been in college long enough to obtain a degree, 27.3 percent of RAHI alumni have received a bachelor's degree.
This summer, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of RAHI, five students participated in the RAHI II, Next Step program, where they performed genetic research.
In celebration of the International Polar Year, at the completion of the traditional RAHI program this year, a dozen RAHI students traveled to Barrow for an additional two weeks of study. These students will be working with Barrow Arctic Science Consortium scientists and participating in an archaeological dig. Also as part of IPY, RAHI enjoyed a visit from ten students and two teachers from Greenland this summer, as plans are underway for future participation of Greenlanders in the RAHI program.
Congratulations to RAHI for 25 years of success!
