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  • Are you ready to ShakeOut?

    October 17, 2023

    On Oct. 19 at 10:19 a.m., millions will "Drop, Cover, and Hold On" in the Great ShakeOut, the world's largest earthquake drill! With over 340 million people living and working in the United States, a major earthquake could cause unprecedented devastation. Knowing what to do before a big earthquake will determine how well you survive and recover.
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  • UAF flu clinics

    October 17, 2023

    UAF Student Health and Counseling Center is providing flu shots for students, faculty, staff, and significant others/partners of faculty and staff members.
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  • UAF names summer 2023 honors students

    October 17, 2023

    The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks has announced the students named to the deans' and chancellor's lists for the summer 2023 semester. The lists recognize students' outstanding academic achievements.
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  • Writers series presents fall 2023 Poetry Showcase

    October 16, 2023

    The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks English Department’s Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series will present the fall 2023 Poetry Showcase at Schaible Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m.
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  • A bearded man in a flannel shirt stands behind a table loaded with archaeological artifacts. He is talking to three children and an adult woman.

    Museum offers opportunity to 'Ask an Archaeologist'

    October 16, 2023

    The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Museum of the North will host "Ask an Archaeologist," a multiday event where visitors can meet museum archaeologists and learn about archaeology in ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ. The event takes place in the museum lobby from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily from Monday, Oct. 23, through Wednesday, Oct. 25.
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  • Photo of a stethoscope and heart-shaped stress reliever on top of an echocardiogram chart.

    UAF - 'Just for the Health of It!'

    October 16, 2023

    Join the Nanook Diversity and Action Center for a special health fair open to all University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ-Fairbanks faculty, staff and students on Wednesday, Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Wood Center Ballroom (2nd Floor).
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  • Strips of salmon are laid out on a wire rack prior to being smoked.

    Online course teaches methods of safely preserving foods

    October 16, 2023

    Learn to safely preserve healthy foods at home in a five-week series of online classes, beginning Jan. 7. The class is available statewide.
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  • Volunteer to be spring 2024 OLLI instructor

    October 16, 2023

    UAF's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is currently seeking volunteer instructors for the spring. It's a wonderful, low-stress opportunity to gain teaching experience with a friendly audience while sharing your passion and knowledge.
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  • Current Issue – Fall 2023 cover

    Aurora Fall 2023 online

    October 13, 2023

    Read about a UAF alumna's joy in cooking propelling her to the MasterChef competition, the creation of climate scholars, a homecoming a century in the making and much more in the fall 2023 Aurora.
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  • UAF Community and Technical College Culinary Arts and Hospitality staff, faculty and students gather in front of the train following the event.

    UAF CTC Culinary crew rocks the HooDoo Choo Choo

    October 13, 2023

    Students, staff and faculty from the UAF Community and Technical College Culinary Arts and Hospitality program partnered with the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Railroad and HooDoo Brewing Company for the third year to produce the annual HooDoo Choo Choo event.
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  • A woman with a raincoat and hat smiles while harvesting a bounty of peppers

    Later fall freezes, earlier thaws increase Interior ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ growing season

    October 13, 2023

    The trend toward a longer growing season means it's now possible to grow crops that were once marginal in Interior ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ.
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  • UAF hosts annual Major Mania event

    October 13, 2023

    The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks will host its annual Major Mania event on Tuesday, Oct. 17, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Wood Center ballroom on the Troth Yeddha' Campus.
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  • Pink salmon spawn in Gilmour Creek near where it enters Prince William Sound, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ, as a field technician works to collect carcasses of dead fish

    DNA analysis reveals pink salmon swim home with incredible accuracy

    October 13, 2023

    Analysis of a massive database of pink salmon DNA has revealed unexpected details about the abundant salmon species, including its ability to return to spawn at nearly the same spot within streams as their parents.
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  • UAF seeks nominations for 2024 alumni awards

    October 12, 2023

    The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks, in partnership with the nonprofit UAF Alumni Association, is seeking nominations for the 2024 Distinguished Alumnus Award and William R. Cashen Service Award. Honorees are selected by a committee of alumni, past recipients and UAF staff.
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  • Five women and a man, all of varying ages and dressed coats, stand together in a forest of deciduous trees in yellow fall foliage. A frame tent stands behind them on the right.

    Fat Bird Week highlights long flight ahead

    October 12, 2023

    At the mist-netting station in the woods at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks, volunteers and professionals briefly cupped more than 2,000 songbirds in their hands this fall.
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  • Cook Inlet tsunami map

    Upper Cook Inlet community meetings will address tsunami hazard

    October 12, 2023

    In a series of community meetings to be held Oct. 17-20, scientists and local emergency managers will answer questions about a new report of tsunami hazard to upper Cook Inlet.
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  • Chancellor's Budget Forum on Oct. 19

    October 11, 2023

    Join Chancellor Dan White for a discussion of the university's budget on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 1:15 p.m. in the Schaible Auditorium. The event will also be available online.
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  • Logan Hertzler in the UAF eCampus exam room.

    Tackling test anxiety

    October 11, 2023

    Test anxiety is well-known in the college community and can affect students tremendously. We strive to do our best academically, and testing anxiety can hinder effective test performance and studying.
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  • Flooding sign

    Flooding that closed Dalton Highway also caused widespread ground sinking

    October 11, 2023

    The massive 2015 flooding of the Sagavanirktok River in northern ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ had immediate impacts, including closure of the Dalton Highway for several days, but it also contributed to longer-term ground subsidence in the permafrost-rich region.
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  • Free UAF harm reduction webinar

    October 11, 2023

    Join the Nanook Diversity and Action Center for a free, live webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 18 from 2-3:30 p.m. from the National Harm Reduction Coalition.
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  • Halloween carnival

    October 11, 2023

    Residence Life is hosting a family-friendly Halloween carnival at the MBS complex on Saturday, Oct. 28 from 1-4 p.m. for UAF students, faculty, staff and their families.
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  • Chignik Bay

    UAF-led group gets $13.9 million to aid coastal climate resilience

    October 11, 2023

    The National Science Foundation will fund a $13.9 million program led by the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks to help multiple communities respond to coastal erosion, flooding, permafrost thaw and other hazards attributed to climate change.
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  • New financial aid Satisfactory Academic Progress website

    October 09, 2023

    The UAF Financial Aid Office recently launched the Satisfactory Academic Progress website to provide helpful information regarding SAP financial aid requirement information, including information about the financial aid appeal process.
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  • Two women look off into the distance. One uses a controller for a drone.

    New climate program launches underserved students into Arctic science

    October 06, 2023

    In late August, 12 students from OSU's TRIO Upward Bound program spent five days at the field research station, which is part of the Institute of Arctic Biology at UAF. The students participated firsthand with Toolik Field Station staff, scientists, artists and others responding to the warming Arctic.
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  • A woman in diving gear and a white knit cap sits on one tube of a red inflatable boat while driving the craft with a 40-horsepower outboard motor. A town, a marina, a suspension bridge, a ship and cloud-topped mountains are in the background on a mostly sunny day.

    Sea stars, urchins and kelp forests

    October 06, 2023

    A few weeks ago, Sarah Gravem lowered a "ravenous, terrifying predator" from her boat down to the ocean floor off Sitka. Then she released it.
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