Welcome to America's Arctic University
Choose UAF for your graduate education and work with internationally known faculty on globe-spanning research with an arctic focus.
Alaska's only Ph.D.-granting university, UAF offers graduate degrees in the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, engineering and professional fields, and is a top producer of Native American degree recipients.
Our geographic location and expert faculty combine to give UAF a well-earned reputation for arctic and northern research.
By working closely with faculty, our graduate students gain valuable experience that can lead to successful employment in the North — or anywhere their profession and passion take them.
UAF Graduate Students Win Awards
Rusheet Shah - M.S. Candidate in Petroleum Engineering
Rusheet won 1st place in the Society of Petroleum Engineers 2009 Western Regional Meeting and 3rd place in the International Student Paper Contest (M.S. division). Rusheet's competitors were petroleum engineering students from 5 different universities around the world.
Rusheet presented his work on application of nanotechnology for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), which is funded by the Office of Electronic Miniaturization (OEM).
Elizabeth Markley - M.S. Candidate in Biology
Award: Elizabeth (Bessie) won Best Poster at the ACUNS conference in Whitehorse, YT, Canada.
Poster title: Ecology of juvenile Chinook salmon in an interior Alaska clearwater river
Authors: Elizabeth C. Green, Megan T. Perry, Jason R. Neuswanger, Emily R. Benson, Laura Gutierrez, Mark S. Wipfli, Nicholas F. Hughes, and Matthew J. Evenson
Bio: Elizabeth Green is a Master's student in Biology and Wildlife at UAF. She recently defended her Master's thesis studying terrestrial and upstream influences on trout in headwater streams in the east Cascade Mountain Range in Washington. The poster she presented at the ACUNS IPY Communties of Change Conference in Whitehorse is a collaborative effort among several graduate students in Mark Wipfli's aquatic ecology lab. Elizabeth is one of five students working on this study of the influence of river flow and temperature on food production, fish diet and growth, and foraging behavior of juvenile Chinook salmon in the Chena River.
Bessie's research interests lie in the ecology and conservation of running water. You can read more about her research here.
Russell Dennis - M.S. Student in Biology
Award: Russell won Best Poster at the ACUNS conference in Whitehorse, YT, Canada.
Poster Title: Oviposition Site Preference and Larval Performance of the Aspen Leaf Miner
Russell completed his undergraduate degree in Environmental Science at the University of Vermont, and is a current MS student of biology at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. With Patricia Doak and Diane Wagner, Russell is conducting research on the role of aspen extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) in defense against an outbreak herbivore, the aspen leaf miner (ALM).
You can read about Russ' poster here.