06/03/2009 - Darleen Masiak
Video: Continuing with Art
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06/10/2009 - Brian Barnes
Video: Overwintering Strategies of Arctic Animals
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06/17/2009 - Terrence Cole
Video: The D.A. Never Rests: The Rise of Ted Stevens in 1950s Fairbanks
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06/24/2009 - Dirk Lummerzheim
Video: Auroral Colors
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07/01/2009 - Peter Webley
Video: Volcano Monitoring in Alaska: Remote Sensing and Google Earth
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07/08/2009 - David Player
Video: Floating the Rivers of The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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07/15/2009 - Marion Nestle
Video: Politics of FOOD - Personal Responsibility vs. Social Responsibility
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07/22/2009 - Dermot Cole
Video: Alaska at 50: The First Half-Century of Alaska Statehood
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07/29/2009 - Derek Sikes
Video: Alaska's Charismatic Microfauna: Our Mostly Six-Legged Neighbors
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08/05/2009 - Charles Mason
Video: Ravens, Dinosaurs, and Tourists: A Fairbanks Photographer Looks at Alaska and Beyond
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08/12/2009 - Lance Mackey
Video: Growing Up in a Dog Mushing World
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 August 7, 2009

The “Whad’Ya Know?” show came to Fairbanks on August 7, 2009 for an evening of live entertainment right here on the UAF Campus.  Click here to view photos from the event.

June 11, 12, 13, 2009 

The third annual Alaska Book Festival, presented by University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning, looked to the past, focusing on the 2009 theme, Historically Alaska. Authors from around the state gathered to share ideas and comments about their own works relating to the state’s history; they also gave a nod to the future by offering guidance on the writing process.  Click here to view the photo gallery from this event. 

Marion Nestle is the author of three prize-winning books on nutrition including Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002); Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (2003), and What to Eat (2006). Her most recent book (published in 2008) is Pet Food Politics: the Chihuahua in the Coal Mine. She writes the ‘Food Matters’ column for the San Francisco Chronicle and co-writes a food and nutrition column for The Bark magazine.  Watch her lecture here.

Terrence Cole, UAF professor, author, and historian, presented a lecture entitled “The D. A. Never Rests: The Rise of Ted Stevens in 1950’s Fairbanks.”  Watch the lecture here.

Willie Hensley is a Qikiktagrukmi, an Inupiaq from the shores of Kotzebue Sound. He has served Alaska in a variety of capacities, he is a father and husband and not only one of the "Real People," he is now a "real writer."  Hensley was a special guest lecturer at the 3rd Annual Alaska Book Festival.

UAF Alumna Grace Berg Schaible spent an evening talking about her Alaskan journey. Prompted by questions from interviewer Robert Hannon, she  shared stories of her experiences as a child in Juneau, her years as an Alaskan attorney and her adventures as a retired Fairbanksan...

Students at the 2008 summer’s University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeological field school near the Gerstle River found themselves sifting through silt, searching for thousands of artifacts dating back to some of the continent's first inhabitants.