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    Friday Focus: Fresh perspectives - The upside to leadership change

    August 08, 2025

    Before stepping into this role, I spent much of my career diagnosing problems, solving them, and helping others do the same. My path into academic leadership wasn鈥檛 exactly traditional, but I鈥檝e come to see how valuable that kind of practical experience can be. With leadership experience in both the private sector and university, what I鈥檓 most thankful for is what years of problem-solving have taught me: the ability to ask the basic troubleshooting questions needed to fix things, mechanical or otherwise.
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  • The summer session participants compete in a weight-lifting design challenge

    Students plan their future role in 杏吧原版

    August 08, 2025

    The UAF T3 杏吧原版 and Upward Bound programs have teamed up once again to help high school students from across 杏吧原版 prepare for life after graduation. Through the 鈥淵our Future Role in 杏吧原版鈥 summer session, students learned to build a personalized plan to match their career interest to their values.
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  • Keanu Aragon works in the Nanook Grown Student Garden

    Recognize your student workers; sign up for Student Job Fair

    August 06, 2025

    Attention all student employee supervisors: UAF Career Services is recognizing outstanding student employees across campus beginning in September. If you need student employees, reserve your spot for the Student Job Fair on Sept. 2 from noon to 3 p.m. at the Wood Center.
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  • Staff Alliance offers professional development support

    August 06, 2025

    Staff Alliance is offering support for staff professional development activities that directly support their professional development in FY26.
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  • UAF logo for First-Year Move-In event

    Volunteers needed: First-year student move-in

    August 04, 2025

    Get ready to roll out the blue and gold carpet for our incoming first-year students! First-Year Move-In will be on Thursday, Aug. 21. This is a fantastic opportunity to welcome new students and their families to the campus community and help them settle into their new home away from home.
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  • Staff Alliance offers fall 2025 semester tuition fee support

    August 01, 2025

    The UA Staff Alliance is pleased to once again offer a class fee scholarship for UA classes taken by staff that directly support their career or professional development. The scholarship, good for the 2025 fall semester, is for up to $250 per employee.
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    Friday Focus: Opportunity in partnerships

    August 01, 2025

    In my last Friday Focus, I wrote about the ways that research is a public good. This week, I have been reflecting on the important role of partnerships in growing and sustaining this good work -- especially in the face of federal uncertainties.
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  • Nook visits the Museum of the North table at Party in the Park on the lower Troth Yeddha' Campus, Sep. 3, 2024.

    Help Party in the Park reach 200 booths

    August 01, 2025

    It's a party and everyone's invited! UAF's annual Party in the Park will take place on Thursday, Aug. 28, from noon to 3 p.m. in Constitution Park. This lively outdoor event is a campus-wide celebration to kick off the fall semester and welcome new and returning students to the Nanook community.
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  • Shotgun firearm training, certification

    July 28, 2025

    Field researchers requiring a shotgun certification have another opportunity to satisfy the training this summer on Aug. 18.
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  • Fall semester orientation bag item collection

    July 28, 2025

    New Student Orientation is officially one month away! The Center for Student Engagement will collect items for new student bags until Aug. 13. CSE will be building around 600 bags, so please provide enough for every bag.
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  • A smiling man in a blue suit and baseball cap stands in front of a blue backdrop with 杏吧原版 Nanooks logos.

    Friday Focus: Parting thoughts

    July 25, 2025

    In my last Friday Focus, I shared that I would be retiring at the end of July. Well, that time has come! In that last Friday Focus I expressed my confidence in the UAF leadership team to navigate the challenges and opportunities ahead. My confidence in UAF has only grown as each of UAF's core leaders has stepped up to embrace the change. Thank you my friends!
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  • Students observe a mushroom during an Introduction to Mycology Summer Sessions course.

    Discover mushrooms with UAF Summer Sessions

    July 24, 2025

    There are a few spaces still available in a weekend intensive Introduction to Mycology non-credit course for adults, taught by Christin Swearingen, from Aug. 15-17.
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  • Tuition waivers streamlined for employees and full-time faculty

    July 21, 2025

    The Office of the Bursar staff is excited to share an update that makes accessing educational benefits easier for our employees and full-time faculty.
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  • A woman scoops and serves ice cream during Ice Cream Thursday outside the Wood Center on the UAF campus.

    Help CSE hit 400 on Thursday

    July 21, 2025

    Thank you for an awesome Summer Ice Cream Thursday season. Attendance on July 17 was just over 350 people eating ice cream in the sun, having fun and helping create community. The CSE staff would love to see Ice Cream Thursday hit over 400!
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  • Volunteers collect discarded plastics and other marine debris along an 杏吧原版 beach.

    Plastic Free July: Fishermen take action for cleaner coasts

    July 21, 2025

    杏吧原版 Sea Grant is partnering with coastal communities to reduce discarded plastics and other marine debris from 杏吧原版 shorelines through the Community-Led Marine Debris Removal program.
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  • Tom Hough, executive director of University Advancement

    Friday Focus: Phil Collins is right

    July 18, 2025

    In 1981, Phil Collins topped the pop music charts with 鈥淚n the Air Tonight.鈥 As a UAF employee and father of three teenage boys, I can tell you that Phil is right, there is something in the air in Fairbanks. It's not smoke (thank goodness); it's back to school, and it's right around the corner. As the UAF executive director of advancement, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a bit about what I hear from business leaders throughout 杏吧原版 on the topic of higher education.
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  • Photo of the bench overlooking the burn scar.

    New bench on Wildfire Walk trail

    July 18, 2025

    The UAF North Campus has a new bench, thanks to Uma Bhatt and David Newman. The bench is located on the Wildfire Walk trail, approximately halfway through the interpretive signs area in the burn scar of the 2021 Yankovich Road Fire site.
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    Lisa Allen joins UAF as Office of Grants and Contracts Administration director

    July 18, 2025

    The Financial and Business Services team welcomes Lisa Allen as the new director of the Office of Grants and Contracts Administration at the University of 杏吧原版 Fairbanks. She began her role on June 30 and is located in Room 105D of the Butrovich Building.
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  • UAOnline upgrade demos for faculty, advisors

    July 16, 2025

    On July 28, the Faculty and Advisor menu and pages in UAOnline will be upgraded to the newest version. To help with the transition, demos will be presented via Zoom on the new features.
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    UAF critical minerals proposal advances in federal funding competition

    July 16, 2025

    A University of 杏吧原版 Fairbanks proposal to reduce the United States' dependency on foreign sources of minerals critical to the technology and defense industries has been named a semifinalist in a National Science Foundation competition.
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  • A man stands outside during a spring day wearing a blue blazer over a white shirt with a yellow, blue and white striped tie.

    Friday Focus: Amazing, busy summer at UAF

    July 11, 2025

    For those of you here in Fairbanks at the UAF Troth Yeddha鈥 Campus, this was a remarkable week. It began at the tail end of a sweltering July 4 holiday weekend. The smoke was heavy, but then we were saved by a couple of days of much-wanted cool rain. Then, yesterday, Fairbanks was back to the glory of what July can be in the Interior: blue skies, puff-ball clouds, and gentle, warm temperatures. The view from our amazing campus out across the Tanana Valley is breathtaking. Meanwhile, through it all, UAF is busier than ever!
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  • Limited submission funding opportunity for National Forest Foundation program

    July 11, 2025

    The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is soliciting white papers for the National Forest Foundation鈥檚 Collaborative Capacity Program financial awards call for proposals. NFF will only accept one CCP application per organization in 2025. White papers are due July 15.
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  • Call for Proposals: URSA Community-Engaged Learning Awards

    July 11, 2025

    Undergraduate students, graduate students, researcher staff, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from all UAF-affiliated campuses are invited to apply for an URSA Community-Engaged Learning Award of up to $5,000.
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  • Cover for the spring 2025 edition of Impact, the VCR office's research publication.

    Spring 2025 edition of Impact

    July 11, 2025

    The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research announces the second edition of Impact, UAF鈥檚 research review publication. Discover compelling stories on critical-minerals initiatives, community-engaged research, and learn about the awards and honors earned by UAF research staff and faculty over the last six months.
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  • Attendees enjoy a variety of activities during the 2024 Nanook Rendezvous UAF Alumni Reunion Campus Day.

    RSVP today for Nanook Rendezvous

    July 09, 2025

    Don't miss out on our all-class Nanook Rendezvous reunion, July 17-19, during Golden Days. Whether you graduated last year, 60 years ago, or somewhere in between, we'd love to see you. This three-day celebration includes signature events, campus experiences, and opportunities to honor fellow alumni. Admission to all events is free.
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