Alaska Native Language Center to celebrate 50th anniversary on Oct. 4

September 27, 2022

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Native Language Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Tuesday, Oct. 4. A celebration will be held in the UAF Wood Center from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and is open to the public.
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New research can help electric utilities account for climate change

September 23, 2022

Research will help local energy planners determine the optimal mix of renewable energy sources and energy storage needs.
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Alaska sand dunes hint at ancient past

September 22, 2022

Sitting at a window seat on a recent flight from Seattle to Fairbanks, I looked down on Alaska from 35,000 feet. There was my home river, the Tanana, flowing gray and braided from near the Canada border.
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UAF drone pilots head to western Alaska for emergency response

September 21, 2022

A University of Alaska Fairbanks drone team headed to Western Alaska Wednesday to support the U.S. Coast Guard's emergency response following Typhoon Merbok. Over the next few days to weeks, the team will work alongside the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Task Force as they assess infrastructure damage at as many as 20 coastal communities in Alaska's Bering Strait.
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Health training courses scheduled in Anchorage

September 21, 2022

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will lead two training sessions in Anchorage for individuals or organizations that want to offer research-based community health education.
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Caught in a major storm, UAF researchers make the best of it

September 21, 2022

On St. Paul Island, in the Bering Sea about 300 miles from Alaska’s coast, the still-powerful remains of Typhoon Merbok passed overhead, churning up the ocean and rolling across the landscape on a path to the Alaska mainland. As the storm hit the small island, three University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers, two graduate students and a filmmaker went out for a look.
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Falling into autumn: Pretty reds can mean pretty dry and warm

September 21, 2022

Have you noticed more red leaves this autumn compared to the past few years? I have lived here since 2008, and I have never seen so much red in our aspen and birch leaves.
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Business accelerator accepting applications

September 20, 2022

The Alaska Interior Business Accelerator is accepting applications for its second cohort. The businesses accelerator is designed to help new businesses through mentorship, networking, education and access to capital.
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UAF scientists contribute to long-term climate change overview

September 19, 2022

University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists played key roles in a recently released report about the effects of climate change at dozens of long-term research sites around the world.
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Tickets available for UAF Business Leader of Year event

September 16, 2022

Tickets are on sale for the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Business and Security Management's 44th Business Leader of the Year dinner and award ceremony.
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Where do Alaska bats spend the winter?

September 14, 2022

Jesika Reimer, a bat expert and consultant, has held in her hands little brown bats from the Northwest Territories to the Tanana River. Along with a few colleagues around Alaska, she is sharing new information about the farthest-north bat.
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Holdmann to lead discussion about small-scale nuclear energy

September 14, 2022

Gwen Holdmann will discuss small-scale nuclear energy and its potential in Alaska at a town hall energy discussion on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 5:30 p.m. at the Noel Wien Library Auditorium in Fairbanks.
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Cooperative Extension offers classes on food prep, preservation

September 13, 2022

University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension agent Sarah Lewis and Anchorage program manager Gina Dionne will offer a series of Tuesday evening online classes on preparing and preserving foods for the holidays.
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Certified food protection manager training class scheduled

September 12, 2022

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will offer a two-day food protection manager training class on Oct. 17-18.
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UAF, Latitude 65 to launch Nanook 65 Golden Ale

September 09, 2022

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has teamed up with Fairbanks' Latitude 65 Brewing Company on a new beer that will boost scholarships for Alaska Nanooks student-athletes.
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An attempt to demystify the mysterious

September 08, 2022

NEAR GAKONA, ALASKA -- In this wild place where dump truck drivers once tipped load after load of gravel onto the moss to make roads and building pads, scientists rolled open an iron gate one recent Saturday afternoon.
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Presentation to discuss resurrecting the woolly mammoth

September 08, 2022

Technology startup company Colossus Biosciences and national organization The Explorer's Club will host a presentation about the company's work toward resurrecting the woolly mammoth.
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