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University of Alaska Museum of the North

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By Trisha M Shears via WikiMedia Commons

Open Monday - Saturday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Leggy OPEN NOW

 

The exhibit will feature live spiders, tarantulas, centipedes, scorpions and more. There will also be a darkened gallery where visitors can enter the secret world of nocturnal insects, creatures that are most active in the dark.

Videos will show arthropod behaviors, such as spiders spinning webs and beetles searching for food. A close-up lair camera will let visitors see arthropods that like to stay hidden and learn more about Earth’s true majority.

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Derek Sikes, UAMN curator of entomology, at 907-474-6278 or via email at dssikes@alaska.edu.

 
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Nanook Basketball, Hockey and Rifle

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By Amstrup, Steven/USGS [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Basketball and Rifle at the UAF Patty Center - Hockey at the Carlson Center

Come out to see Basketball at the UAF Patty Center.

February 11, 3:00 pm - Nanook Women vs. Western Washington

February 16, 7:00 pm - Nanook Men vs. Western Oregon

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Come see Hockey at the Carlson Center

February 10, 7:00 pm - Nanooks vs.Lake Superior

February 11, 7:00 pm - Nanooks vs.Lake Superior

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Rifle at the UAF Patty Center

Nanooks vs. Jacksonville State and Nebraska, NCAA Qualifiers

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Stamp FR 110 of the Faroe Islands Drawing: B. Drewsen via Wikimeida Commons

STRING FLING - Chamber Music Workshops for Youngsters

Friday, Feb. 10, Saturday, Feb. 11, Sunday, Feb. 12 - UAF Music Wing & Great Hall area

Chamber music workshops for local youngsters
  • Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm - Student Workshops
  • Saturday, 5:30 pm - Student Recitals
     
  • Sunday, 4:00 pm - Faculty Concert
Music Wing, Kayak Room, Great Hall (map)
 
This event is sponsored by the UAF Department of Music. For additional information please contact, Linda Harriger, at fymusic@uaf.edu

University of Alaska Press

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Read about Alaska and the circumpolar regions

Interested in politics and history, Native languages and cultures, science and natural history, biography and memoir? Do you like poetry, non-fiction,  fiction, anthologies, or original translations? We have Print and Electronic books.  Visit us! 

UA Press

Need some great reading ? New Books!

What's happening at the Geophysical Institute

Image of planet Venus by NASA, JPL, USGS
NASA/JPL/USGS

Want to learn more about Venus and planetary research?

How about air quality in Fairbanks?

Click here to read the latest Geophysical Institute Quarterly.  You can also "leaf through" earlier GI Quarterlies.

Resources for Educators

Alaska Inventors Day - Saturday, Feb. 11

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By U.S.P.T.O. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Geophysical Institute, 9:00am - 4:00pm

Fairbanks, Alaska‹Governor Sean Parnell issued an executive proclamation stating Feb. 11, 2012 as Alaska Inventors Day.
 
In celebration of the proclamation, the Alaska Inventors Alliance and the Alaska Patent & Trademark Resource Center will host a daylong event on Saturday, Feb. 11 at the Geophysical Institute where the public can learn about:
  • resources available to local inventors
  • tour the GI Machine and Electronics Shops
  • meet with Interior mayors and local inventors.
For additional information contact Shiva Hullavarad at shiva.h@alaska.edu
Poster of 2012 Science for Alaska lecture series
UAF Science for Alaska

Science for Alaska Series - February 14

Recent Earthquakes that Shook the World with Natalia Ruppert

Westmark Hotel Gold Room 7:00 PM

For more information, please visit the Science for Alaska website.

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FOR TEACHERS

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is offering a professional development course for Alaska educators this spring.

Teachers can enroll to earn up to three credits. The course will build upon topics introduced in the 2012 Science For Alaska Lecture Series and will cover how to connect classrooms with practicing scientists and cutting-edge research.

All assignments are completed online, so teachers can set their own schedule. For more information and registration forms, visit www.scienceforalaska.com.

ON THE WEB: www.scienceforalaska.com

Toxic Threat: Coal and Your Health - Lecture

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By Arnoldius (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Wednesday, February 15, 6:00pm - 9:30pm, Wood Center Ballroom

Scientific talk presented by Dr. Alan Lockwood, Physicians for Social Responsibility.

For additional information please contact, Mary van Muelken, at fyabnp@uaf.edu

Frontiers

Research at America's Arctic University

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In the current issue...

  • Exploring the Chukchi Sea
     
  • Making sense of SIDS
     
  • Meet Michael Castellini ,
    Dean of the School of Fisheris and Ocean Science
     
  • See the 2011 Alaska Native Language Map
     
  • and more...

Click here to visit the National Science Foundation's, science360.  This news service keeps you up-to-date on breaking science that shapes your world.


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Agroborealis

agriculture, soils, geography, forest sciences, and natural resources research

Explore  food security, climate change, economic and community resilience, wildlife management, and energy production research at the School of Natural Resources & Agricultural Sciences.  Read the current issue and page through past.

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Aurora

Aurora magazine is published twice a year for alumni and friends of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.