March 12, 2014
Steel work is expected to resume on the new engineering facility on the Fairbanks campus in March. Davis Constructors will soon receive and erect the mobile tower crane, and ironworkers are scheduled to start the job soon. It will take approximately three months to complete the steel work.
UAF's Northwest Campus in Nome will celebrate the grand opening of the Emily Ivanoff Brown Student Resource Center with a dedication ceremony Thursday, March 27. After multiple renovation projects during the past three years, NWC is proud to open the building as the student and academic center of campus.
The Fairbanks campus hosted four Arctic Winter Games events: ice hockey at Patty Ice Arena, basketball at Patty Center, soccer at the Student Recreation Center and snowboarding at the Hulbert Nanook Terrain Park. A college fair event was held for the athletes and cultural delegates, who range in age from 13-24.
Dozens of undergraduate students will present posters as part of the 7th Annual Campus Research Day on April 29. Undergraduate research activities cover a broad spectrum of disciplines, from climate science to life science, engineering to anthropology, and music to theater.
Sophomore skier Michael Fehrenbach (Saint M rgen, Germany/mechanical engineering) received the NCAA’s Elite 89 Award. Less than two weeks later, j unior shooter Mats Eriksson (Malung, Sweden/business administration) became the second UAF student-athlete ever to receive the award . The award recognizes an athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average among competitors in his or her sport at the NCAA’s 89 men’s and women’s national championship finals across all three divisions.
Alaska’s seafood industry has invested in the search for new uses of pollock byproducts and the development of a seafood processing quality-control training program. The work will be done at the Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center, the state’s only research processing plant. KSMSC seafood chemist Alex Oliveira teaches a group of seafood processors in the pilot plant. Faculty at KSMSC will receive more than $350,000 from the Pollock Conservation Cooperative’s Research Center. The consortium includes fishing companies that operate pollock catcher-processor boats in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.
UAF’s Cooperative Extension Service will offer a weekend workshop series in Homer for vegetable gardeners March 21- April 19.
The Alaska Center for Energy and Power will host a community lecture April 15 in Fairbanks. Antony Scott, senior economist and energy analyst at the UAF-based center, will discuss the proposed trans-Alaska natural gas line. A former employee of the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas, Scott will give his professional impressions on the topic and take questions.
The Chukchi Campus will host the 7th Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference and Forum April 24-25 in Kotzebue. The conference will focus on the impact of global warming on the lives of the residents of arctic Alaska. Local and traditional knowledge will be an important component. The two-day event will highlight scientific studies in the Northwest Arctic Borough region.
Chancellor Rogers has scheduled a campus forum April 8 at 1:30 in the Murie Building auditorium.
Pulitzer Prize winner Susan White, executive editor of InsideClimate News, gave a public lecture titled "The Future of Our Children's Children: Why Journalism is Essential in the Climate Debate," March 12 on the Fairbanks campus.
Following its highest team finish in four years with a national runner-up finish at the NCAA Rifle Championships, the Alaska rifle team had four of its shooters recognized as All-Americans at the post-championships banquet Saturday night at Murray State University. The Nanooks tallied 10 combined All-America accolades between the National Rifle Association Collegiate All-America Team and the Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association All-America Team, sponsored by Lapua.
UAF’s Jazz Fest will take place April 10-12 in Fairbanks.
The Alaska Wood Energy Conference will meet April 15-17 in Fairbanks. The conference will focus on rural and Interior heating issues, including the sustainable harvesting of wood, air quality concerns, current research and new technologies. March 21 is the early registration deadline. See conference details and registration linked at www.uaf.edu/ces .