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PWSC supports Cordova Science Olympiad Team to gold medal success
April 07, 2025
Prince William Sound College proudly supported the Cordova middle school team at the recent Alaska Science Olympiad in Fairbanks, where students earned a gold medal in mariculture (agricultural sciences). The event provided these enthusiastic students with a unique glimpse into university life, hands-on STEM education, and the thrill of academic competition.
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Register for fall 2025 through Schedule Planner
April 07, 2025
Course registration is open for the fall 2025 semester. Students can browse available courses, generate possible schedule options and register for classes in one place with Schedule Planner.
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Join the next SOTL research team
April 07, 2025
For the 2025-2026 academic year, the SOTL@UAF program will bring together instructors across departments and ranks who ask students to write as a form of assessment -- or who previously asked students to write as a form of assessment but stopped due to the rise of LLMs like Chat-GPT. This program will build a cohort of instructors facing similar challenges in developing effective written assignments and assessing student writing as a mechanism for learning.
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April 07, 2025
Join us, May 7-8, for a two-day workshop on Problem-Based Learning and discover how its focus on critical thinking can create meaningful and lasting impacts on your students. UAF faculty will come together to explore problem-based learning and (re)design activities and courses using PBL to leverage student engagement and high-quality learning.
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Getting started with teaching and learning research
April 04, 2025
"Asking a colleague about a problem in his or her research is an invitation; asking about a problem in one's teaching would probably seem like an accusation," writes scholarship of teaching and learning researcher Randy Bass. This Teaching Tip explores the history of this troublesome dynamic, arguing that engaging in teaching and learning research can help you learn to love your teaching problems.
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Friday Focus: Celebrating staff recognition and empowering Alaska's future
April 04, 2025
As we close out another week, it's the perfect time to reflect on the dedication, hard work, and resilience of the staff members who make the University of Alaska Fairbanks a thriving hub of education and innovation. Staff Recognition and Development Day was an amazing event and was more than just a moment to say thank you -- it was an opportunity to acknowledge the vital role our team members play in shaping the future of our students, community, and state. While I recognize that SRDD only celebrates our staff, I wanted to take this opportunity to also recognize faculty and students for the amazing work they do.
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How to deal with a difficult person
April 04, 2025
Join a session on May 1 from 11 a.m. to noon, and learn to recognize and cope with common difficult behaviors in ourselves and others to help make difficult encounters more manageable.
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Master the mindset, skills and strategies to turn change into opportunity
April 04, 2025
Change isn’t just inevitable — it’s an opportunity waiting to be seized! Our Thriving Through Change collection is designed to help employees and leaders embrace change, adapt with confidence, and turn challenges into opportunities for growth.
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Register now for Lavender Ceremony
April 02, 2025
Lavender Ceremony will be held on Saturday, April 12, from noon to 3 p.m., at the Carol Gray Ballroom in the Wood Center.
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April 02, 2025
I am excited to share with you that I have asked Dr. Laura Conner to serve as UAF's next vice chancellor for research, and she has agreed. During her service as interim vice chancellor for research, Dr. Conner demonstrated a natural acuity for the position and the demands of the current times.
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Employee incentive program opens Friday
April 02, 2025
UAF employees can receive a cash incentive of up to $1,000 from the new Empower Alaska Incentive Program. The program, a pilot funded by the University of Alaska Board of Regents, will start on Friday, April 4.
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April rural staff spotlight: Ashley Dunker
April 02, 2025
Ashley Dunker, the event coordinator at the Alaska Sea Grant’s Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center, is the rural staff spotlight for April 2025.
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March 31, 2025
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I share the news that Provost Anupma Prakash has announced her plan to retire on May 31, 2025. Provost Prakash has served as provost since 2018. Her service as provost spanned times of rapid change at the university. Throughout this period, she was steady in her leadership and forward-looking in her vision. Provost Prakash has effectively led from a position of competence and caring and I am grateful to her for her faithful service to UAF. Her impact on UAF and those she worked with will be long-lasting.
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New Nanook Career Closet now open
March 31, 2025
Need professional attire for an interview, networking event, or job? The Nanook Career Closet is here to help! UAF students and alumni can find new and gently used professional clothing, including shirts, blouses, pants, dresses, jackets, ties, shoes, and more, so you can look and feel your best.
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UAF Writing Center new service: Embedded Research Librarian
March 31, 2025
The UAF Writing Center has launched a new partnership to strengthen support for students engaged in research-based writing. Drake Jesse, visiting assistant professor of library science and instruction librarian, is now available for one-on-one research consultations directly in the Writing Center.
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Staff Alliance offers FY26 Professional Development Support
March 31, 2025
Staff Alliance is offering support for staff professional development activities that directly support their professional development in FY26. Examples include, but are not limited to: professional certifications, attending or presenting at a conference, professional society memberships, online or in-person training, and webinars.
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UAF's engineering program expands to welcome more students
March 31, 2025
A University of Alaska Fairbanks engineering program launched in autumn 2024 is expanding its offering to welcome more students in the fall 2025 semester. The energy resource engineering baccalaureate program is a four-year, well-rounded curriculum that includes hydrocarbons, renewable energy technologies and energy transition topics such as carbon capture and hydrogen.
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March 28, 2025
Employees at UAF come from all walks of life. They are longtime Alaskans, longtime Americans, newly minted Americans or not Americans at all. They are all colors, all backgrounds, and all cultures. If I needed to, I could run multivariate analyses to scan all variables and figure out which one factor they all have in common. However, I don’t need high-performance computing or AI to figure it out. I already know; it’s us. We have us in common. We are all bound together by UAF’s mission and our desire to see UAF succeed. That’s awesome. Some years ago, the UAF staff council sought an opportunity to uplift staff, who each in their own part of the organization make UAF run. This led to the creation of Staff Recognition and Development Day.
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Informed or infirmed? Healthy media consumption and social media usage
March 28, 2025
This April 24 training session from 11 a.m. to noon can help you implement healthy media consumption habits that don’t damage your mental and physical well-being.
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North Campus pile burn project
March 28, 2025
The Bureau of Land Management, Division of Forestry and Fire Protection, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, and Facilities Services are coordinating a project to burn debris piles and conduct hazard tree clearing on the North Campus.
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Invitation: 2025 Research and Creative Activity Day
March 26, 2025
URSA invites you to attend the 2025 Research and Creative Activity Day on Tuesday, April 1, from noon to 3 p.m. in the Great Hall of the UAF Fine Art Complex.
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March 26, 2025
The Elmer E. Rasmuson Library invites you to take part in its library user survey. Your feedback will help the library enhance its collections and services.
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Helping children cope with grief
March 26, 2025
This April 10 workshop from 11 a.m. to noon will explore how children of different ages respond to loss and how parents or caretakers can best respond to a child's grief.
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Does a project need IBC review?
March 26, 2025
The Institutional Biosafety Committee is responsible for biological safety review and approval of projects at UAF. Projects requiring IBC review include those utilizing the following: recombinant DNA, synthetic nucleic acid molecules, infectious agents, biological toxins, federally-regulated select agents, and other potentially harmful biological agents.
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Limited submission funding opportunity for DoD MSI instrumentation grants
March 26, 2025
The Vice Chancellor for Research is soliciting white papers for the DoD MSI instrumentation call for proposals. UAF can submit three proposals of $200,000-$1,000,000. White papers are due March 28.
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