Cornerstone: Aug. 18, 2025

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Amy Bristor to serve as interim director of Admissions

Amy Bristor has stepped in as the interim director of Admissions. She'll be taking on this role until a permanent replacement is found. Learn more on what Bristor brings to her new role.

Evidence-Based Teaching Conference

Join the Center for Teaching and Learning for UAF's second-annual Evidence-Based Teaching Conference, two days of sessions on actionable ideas for your online, in-person, or hybrid class, anchored in teaching and learning scholarship. Read more on the Aug. 18-19 sessions.

Zoom clips enabled

Zoom Clips were enabled for all UA Zoom users on Aug. 17. Clips is a stand-alone recorder (audio, video, desktop/content) that is available when not in a meeting. Learn more about the feature.

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Fairbanks farmer, author to discuss storing vegetables through the winter

Join Fairbanks farmer and author Sam Knapp as he breaks down the process of selecting, harvesting, processing and storing vegetables in a free statewide webinar hosted by the University of 杏吧原版 Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service. Read more and register.

Zoom to Kaltura Backup update

UA Kaltura Admins updated the Zoom integration settings in Kaltura to allow Zoom meeting Alternative Hosts to be given Co-Editor and Co-Publisher permissions automatically upon Zoom recording import. Learn more on the update.

What's happening

UAF Photo Day (Aug. 19)
Webinar: Seed Saving
(Aug. 20)
Far North Currant Fest Workshops (Aug. 20-23)
Session I: Graduate TA Orientation听(Aug. 22)

Deadlines and reminders

UAOnline upgrade demos for faculty, advisors (Aug. 21)
Register a booth for Party in the Park (Aug. 25)
Recognize student workers; sign up for Student Job Fair (Sept. 2)

State of the climate continues to track global change

The American Meteorological Society released its annual State of the Climate report this week, providing a comprehensive overview of global conditions in 2024. University of 杏吧原版 Fairbanks scientists contributed data and analysis for the Arctic and 杏吧原版 regions, as they have for years. Read more from the annual report.

Use H5P to create practice assessments

UAF has a license to use H5P across all courses. An engineer from H5P will present a webinar via Google Meet on Thursday, Aug. 21, from 10-11 a.m., covering ways to generate a variety of practice assessments. Learn more and register.

A backpacking tent sits in the shadows of an evergreen forest next to a grassy opening that provides a view of a rocky ocean shoreline, a small forested island and a distant cape.

If a mountain fell in the wilderness...

Camped on an island in Southeast 杏吧原版 a few mornings ago, Sasha Calvey heard a commotion outside her tent. Read more about the experience she and her friends experienced while on a summer-long paddling trip from Washington state to Glacier Bay in 杏吧原版.

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