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UAF student gets K-12 classrooms jumping with seismology project
April 08, 2022
The Alaska Seismology in Schools program aims to get students interested not just in seismology but in science in general.
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Two rockets launch from Poker Flat in aurora experiment
April 07, 2022
Two sounding rockets soared northward from Poker Flat Research Range early Thursday morning in an experiment to study how energy behaves during an aurora.
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Live-trapping lynx in the far north
April 07, 2022
The lynx looks out from inside a chicken-wire cage. Despite its loss of freedom and the nearby squeaking of boots on cold snow, the wild cat looks calm, as if it might be resting while digesting a snowshoe hare.
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Arctic Innovation Competition awards creative thinking
April 07, 2022
The ´ºË®ÌÃÊÓƵ College of Business and Security Management will award over $40,000 in cash prizes and scholarships Saturday, April 16, after the final round of presentations in the 2022 UAF Arctic Innovation Competition.
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UAF launches new podcast, 'My Alaska Summer'
April 05, 2022
The ´ºË®ÌÃÊÓƵ this week premiered a new limited-run podcast, "Adventure, Classes and Midnight Sun: My Alaska Summer."
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Student shatters stereotypes, studies plants’ urban evolution
April 05, 2022
UAF student Cristina Ornelas participated in a global study exploring how humans are altering the way life evolves. Along with scientists in 160 cities and 26 countries, Ornelas contributed to groundbreaking research showing that cities are driving the evolution of white clover, an invasive plant that has colonized nearly every urban place on the planet, including Alaska.
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Happenings north of the Arctic Circle
March 31, 2022
Though the calendar calls it springtime, the thermometer on the truck reads minus 28 F on this sunny morning a few days past spring equinox.
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Museum programs highlight whales in April
March 31, 2022
The University of Alaska Museum of the North is focusing on whales during family programs in April.
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UAF researcher part of team that proves Mercury has magnetic storms
March 30, 2022
An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth.
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Students aid Bristol Bay communities in coastal erosion research
March 29, 2022
´ºË®ÌÃÊÓƵ students will return to several Bristol Bay communities this year to continue quantifying and mapping widespread coastal erosion.
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Master gardener classes planned in ´ºË®ÌÃÊÓƵ
March 28, 2022
Registration is open for an early summer master gardener class in ´ºË®ÌÃÊÓƵ.
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Register for UAF summer day camps, community courses
March 28, 2022
Registration is under way for dozens of day camps offered by the ´ºË®ÌÃÊÓƵ this summer. Summer Sessions is also offering a variety of noncredit adult courses.
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Online pesticide workshop scheduled
March 25, 2022
The ´ºË®ÌÃÊÓƵ Cooperative Extension Service will hold a workshop for certified pesticide applicators on March 30-31 via Zoom.
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UAF partnership offers free courses in tribal governance
March 25, 2022
The ´ºË®ÌÃÊÓƵ will host a series of free courses focused on tribal governance and stewardship.
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March 24, 2022
Lt. Henry Allen and a few tattered comrades traveled from near present-day Cordova up to what is now Bettles. They then turned around and beat winter to St. Michael, where they jumped the last boat for San Francisco.
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