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  • Campus road, lot closures planned for 2025 Midnight Sun Run

    June 18, 2025

    The Midnight Sun Run will begin at the University of Alaska Fairbanks at 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 21. The UAF Police Department will close parts of campus to vehicle access before the race.
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  • A graphic illustration of a warped, wavy clock against a dark background

    UAF professor's work is a step toward elusive 'theory of everything'

    June 18, 2025

    Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The theory also argues that time comes in three dimensions rather than just the single one we experience as continual forward progression. Space emerges as a secondary manifestation.
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  • A black beetle sits in the palm of a person's hand

    Beneficial insects can help control garden pests

    June 17, 2025

    Not all insects are garden pests. In a free statewide webinar, learn which insects are natural enemies of pest bugs and therefore good friends for gardeners to cultivate. Joey Slowik, integrated pest management technician at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service in Palmer, will discuss potential insect friends, what they want and some ways to encourage them in your garden.
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  • Dozens of round orange squash are placed on boards to get them ready for long-term storage

    Workshops to cover vegetable storage, greenhouse energy, accessibility

    June 16, 2025

    UAF Cooperative Extension Service agent and energy specialist Art Nash will guide a series of free workshops this month in Parks Highway communities on ways to keep produce fresh longer, commercial and residential energy options for greenhouses, and accessibility for farmers and gardeners with disabilities.
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  • Two heavily clothed people kneel on wet tundra with instruments and notepads.

    Rainfall, melting permafrost change Interior Alaska stream systems

    June 13, 2025

    The aquatic chemistry and flow rates in Interior Alaska's streams are shifting in response to thawing permafrost and increased rainfall, a new study reports. The study authors found that groundwater makes up a greater portion of streamflow in areas with less permafrost.
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  • Week's events: Margo Klass, surgery advances, Alaska Native elders aging, Juneteenth

    June 13, 2025

    University of Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 16-22.
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  • Two photos are stacked. The top photo is in color and shows two men standing in front of grain that is about 2 feet tall. The lower black and white photo shows a group of men in a field with a measuring stick showing shoulder-height grain.

    Grain at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm shrank over the past century

    June 13, 2025

    Grain grown on the University of Alaska Fairbanks' experiment farm was much taller in 1916 than 2024. Jakir Hasan has a simple explanation. "People were a bit shorter," he joked. Hasan, a research assistant professor of plant genetics at UAF's Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension, said the shift to shorter grain actually resulted from breeding efforts that began in the mid-20th century.
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  • Career at rocket range energizing, fun

    June 12, 2025

    After 35 years of driving to work over a small mountain each day, Kathe Rich will soon make her last daily ascent of Cleary Summit.
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  • A woman pushes a long pole filled with herbicide pellets into a tree stump on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

    Experts to demonstrate ways to control invasive chokecherries

    June 12, 2025

    Visit the Fairbanks Experiment Farm and watch integrated pest management experts demonstrate techniques to control invasive chokecherry trees, Prunus padus and Prunus virginiana. The free event, a collaboration of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the Northern Alaska Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area, is Wednesday, June 18, from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
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  • In a Time of Change announces call for artists

    June 11, 2025

    The In a Time of Change program is accepting applications for artist residencies for a new art-science collaboration project inspired by coastal research and lifeways in the Gulf of Alaska region.
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  • Abisko, Sweden, observatory

    New triple-observatory network completes first winter of work

    June 11, 2025

    Three new Arctic mini-observatories located across the globe from Alaska have completed their first winter studying the upper atmosphere's wind under guidance of a University of Alaska Fairbanks physics professor.
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  • Rime ice on brush at Toolik Lake

    Alaska climate report: May 2025 kept its cool

    June 11, 2025

    The month of May was noticeably cooler around Alaska, but data from the Alaska Climate Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks show that monthly mean temperatures weren't much below normal. It was enough, however, to get people talking about it.
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  • Aerial of Poker Flat Research Range

    UAF Geophysical Institute, Alaska Aerospace to boost space opportunity

    June 10, 2025

    The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and Alaska Aerospace Corp. will work together under a new agreement to jointly develop and offer spaceport services to the booming commercial rocket and satellite industry.
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  • A log is positioned in a portable mill

    Delta arborist to lead workshops on pruning, milling, chainsaw maintenance

    June 10, 2025

    Three workshops in Delta Junction this month will focus on tree pruning techniques, operating a portable sawmill and chainsaw maintenance. Jesse Roman, a licensed arborist who recently moved to Delta Junction, will lead the in-person workshops, which are hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and Partners for Progress in Delta.
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  • A whale tail creates a spray of foam against a dark blue sky as the animal dives below the ocean surface.

    UAF research features in global marine megafauna study

    June 09, 2025

    UAF researchers contributed to a new study in the journal Science which aims to improve marine conservation efforts by identifying the busiest migration corridors and critical habitats of the oceans' largest species.
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