March 22, 2013
KSUA, the student-operated media group at UAF, won the mtvU College Radio Woodie Award.
The Alaska SeaLife Center honored four School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences scientists recently at the annual Alaska Ocean Leadership Awards and Alaska Marine Gala. The Marine Research Award was given to Katrin Iken, Brenda Konar, Russ Hopcroft and Bodil Bluhm for their contributions to the decade-long Census of Marine Life research project. For details about the SFOS scientists.
A research team from the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences spent four days camped on the ice near Barrow testing several ways of collecting data about the fishes and habitat below them. The pilot study is a component of the larger Central Beaufort Sea Marine Fish Monitoring research project funded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and managed by principal investigator Brenda Norcross. The information gathered here will be used to create a plan for under-ice research projects.
Junior Bente Heller the earned the first-ever national championship trophy won by a Nanook swimmer. Heller took first in the 100-meter backstroke event at the NCAA Division II national meet in Birmingham, Ala. March 8. She also finished third nationally in the 100 meter freestyle event.
The UAF Chancellor’s Gala raised $25,000 for the Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation to support the Circle of Hope Breast Cancer Program at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and $25,000 to support CTC’s dental assistant and dental hygiene program.
The Rasmuson Foundation donated $25,000 to the Bristol Bay Campus for audio and video conferencing equipment for the BBC Science Center in Dillingham.
Solsten XP donated $15,000 to the 2013 GeoFORCE Alaska program at UAF. The program, modeled after the successful GeoFORCE Texas program, had its inaugural year in 2012 and is designed to increase students pursuing STEM degree programs.
Associated General Contractors donated $10,000 in support of the ASCE Steel Bridge program at CEM.
The UAF spring phonathon is underway. From fall 2011 to Fall 2012, the program saw an 11 percent increase in donors and a 12.5 percent increase in number of gifts.
Tom Marsik, an assistant professor of sustainable energy at UAF’s Bristol Bay Campus, has built what’s being called one of the tightest homes in the world. The average home in rural Alaska takes about $5,000 to heat--Marsik’s takes about $900. Read the story about the Southwest Alaska home deemed 'tightest' in world.
UAF’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly activity has awarded more than $100,000 for student research projects and travel and nearly $15,000 to faculty to support undergraduate research. Outreach about research continues as well with URSA’s weekly Research Showcase. The lectures were recorded and available at https://echo.uaf.edu.
Groundbreakings for the Wood Center Dining Expansion, Engineering Building are scheduled for March 30.
Chancellor Rogers’ community perspective piece on UAF’s land grant history was published by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner last week.
Alaska Sea Grant will convene Responses of Arctic Marine Ecosystems to Climate Change, the 28th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium, in Anchorage, Alaska, March 26-29, 2013.
UAF’s 16th annual Scholarship and Award Breakfast takes place Tuesday, April 16 in the UAF Wood Center. The annual event celebrates student success and the generosity that inspires scholarships.