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  • The sun illuminates a snow-capped mountain rising above small cumulus clouds, dark foothills, a mixed evergreen and deciduous forest, a grassy field and a gravel beach.

    A wrinkle beneath the icy face of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ

    December 12, 2025

    A few days ago, the forces beneath ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier.

  • A person walks through snowfall under lighted streetlamps on the UAF campus.

    UAF 2025-26 winter break office closures set

    December 12, 2025

    Most offices at the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks will close for the winter break from Dec. 25, 2025, to Jan. 4, 2026. Some offices will also close or have reduced hours Dec. 15-24. Some public venues will be open during parts of the break.

  • A large, square four-story building housing the UAF Community and Technical College and painted beige with blue trim on a snowy street.

    Cooperative Extension's Tanana District office moving to new location

    December 12, 2025

    The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service office for the Tanana District, now located at the old University Park building at 1000 University Ave., is moving to a new space in the new year. The office is relocating to Room 205 in the UAF Community and Technical College at 604 Barnette St. in downtown Fairbanks.

  • These two growth plates from the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Museum of the North, originally thought to be from ancient woolly mammoths, were later determined to be from whale species.

    Mammoth mystery takes an unexpected turn

    December 12, 2025

    University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks researcher Matthew Wooller and a large international team have studied the remains of more than 300 mammoths during the past three years. None of them have delivered a journey quite like samples UAMN3760 and UAMN3724.

  • A man in a knit cap and blue puffer jacket holds a GPS reader while standing outdoors near a mountain range

    Presentation planned on GPS use for recreation

    December 11, 2025

    A free in-person and virtual presentation will discuss how to use a GPS receiver for navigation and safer backcountry travel. Nelson Crone, farm director at the Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center in Palmer, will provide a basic overview of GPS use for navigation, plus tips and best practices for recreational travel in ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ.

News
  • The sun illuminates a snow-capped mountain rising above small cumulus clouds, dark foothills, a mixed evergreen and deciduous forest, a grassy field and a gravel beach.

    A wrinkle beneath the icy face of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ

    December 12, 2025

    A few days ago, the forces beneath ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier.

  • A person walks through snowfall under lighted streetlamps on the UAF campus.

    UAF 2025-26 winter break office closures set

    December 12, 2025

    Most offices at the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks will close for the winter break from Dec. 25, 2025, to Jan. 4, 2026. Some offices will also close or have reduced hours Dec. 15-24. Some public venues will be open during parts of the break.

  • A large, square four-story building housing the UAF Community and Technical College and painted beige with blue trim on a snowy street.

    Cooperative Extension's Tanana District office moving to new location

    December 12, 2025

    The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service office for the Tanana District, now located at the old University Park building at 1000 University Ave., is moving to a new space in the new year. The office is relocating to Room 205 in the UAF Community and Technical College at 604 Barnette St. in downtown Fairbanks.

  • These two growth plates from the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Museum of the North, originally thought to be from ancient woolly mammoths, were later determined to be from whale species.

    Mammoth mystery takes an unexpected turn

    December 12, 2025

    University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks researcher Matthew Wooller and a large international team have studied the remains of more than 300 mammoths during the past three years. None of them have delivered a journey quite like samples UAMN3760 and UAMN3724.

  • A man in a knit cap and blue puffer jacket holds a GPS reader while standing outdoors near a mountain range

    Presentation planned on GPS use for recreation

    December 11, 2025

    A free in-person and virtual presentation will discuss how to use a GPS receiver for navigation and safer backcountry travel. Nelson Crone, farm director at the Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center in Palmer, will provide a basic overview of GPS use for navigation, plus tips and best practices for recreational travel in ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ.

  • The West Ridge research area at the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks nestles against frosted woodlands in November 2025. Photo by Eric Marshall

    ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ climate report: November anything but normal

    December 11, 2025

    November brought two wildly differing snow stories to ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ, according to the monthly summary from the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Climate Research Center at the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.

  • A bunch of freshly harvested carrots are washed off

    State, Cooperative Extension offer free grower safety course

    December 10, 2025

    The ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Department of Environmental Conservation and the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will hold a Produce Safety Alliance grower training in January.

  • ACEP internship program builds ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ’s next workforce

    December 10, 2025

    The ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Center for Energy and Power summer internship program is accepting applications for summer 2026. The program offers undergraduate interns opportunities to engage in projects in marine, geothermal or high-latitude solar energy, heat pumps, cyberinfrastructure and data analysis.

  • The July 9, 1962, Starfish Prime explosion above the Pacific Ocean.

    Research offers defense against energized space electrons

    December 09, 2025

    Research at the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is advancing the ability to quickly clean up Earth's radiation belts from a flood of energetic electrons created by an extraordinary solar blast or a nuclear explosion in space.

  • A man in a red knit cap, standing in a grassy fields with mountains and the ocean behind him, holds a dirty, white cylindrical piece of equipment, about a foot long, with an electrical cord hanging from it.

    The people behind earthquake early warning

    December 04, 2025

    When you follow scientists in the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ wilderness, you'll almost certainly get alder-snagged.

  • A person uses cutters and wire to shape a tree during a bonsai workshop

    Hands-on workshop introduces ancient art of bonsai

    December 04, 2025

    The word "bonsai" means "tree in a dish or tray," and the practice invites participants to slow down and cultivate patience. A hands-on, two-day workshop sponsored by the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will teach participants about the ancient art.

  • Three people smile insides a yellow tent, inside a building. They hold a poster that reads ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Voices. The tent is labeled the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Voices Story Telling Tent.

    'ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Voices' shares climate adaptation stories

    December 03, 2025

    The second season of the podcast "ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Voices" brings listeners into the lives of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æns dealing with one of the most rapidly changing environments on Earth.

  • A shovel stands on a snowy rooftop with snow-covered cars and houses in the background.

    Anchorage researcher to discuss results of snow load survey

    December 02, 2025

    A recent survey shows 70% of Anchorage residents are concerned about heavy snow loads on roofs, and a significant number are hiring help to address these concerns. In a webinar hosted by the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service, Jennifer Schmidt, associate professor of natural resource management and policy at the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Anchorage Institute of Social and Economic Research, will discuss the results of the survey.

  • A diagram shows how air movement causes wires to bounce.

    The mystery of the dancing wires

    December 01, 2025

    In this quiet, peaceful time of year, with all the noisy birds flown south and all the scary bears in hillside dens, little things catch our attention. Like wires that move as if by magic.

  • Headshot photo of CTC dean candidate, Kevin Alexander.

    CTC dean candidates to make public presentations

    November 25, 2025

    Kevin Alexander and Brenda Madore, candidates for dean of the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks Community and Technical College, will give public presentations Monday, Dec. 1, and Tuesday, Dec. 2.

  • A man stands in a greenhouse next to pots of wheat and barley.

    Seminar explores ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ food independence scenario

    November 24, 2025

    A University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks professor will explore how ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ might grow enough grain to supply its needs and limit reliance on imported food. The presentation by Jakir Hasan, research assistant professor of plant genetics with the UAF Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension, is part of the seminar series "Circumpolar Connections: A Dialogue on Arctic Food Systems."

  • A woman in a gray and purple parka and brown knitted cap stands in front of farmland backed by a bay with mountains in the background

    Talk will share insights from circumpolar farms, cultures

    November 21, 2025

    Chelsea San Roman, a farm and research technician at the Matanuska Experiment Farm in Palmer, will share stories and experiences from the 2025 Circumpolar Agriculture Conference in Tromsø, Norway. San Roman was part of a group from the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Fairbanks Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension who spent a week in September with farmers, producers and researchers from Earth's circumpolar regions.

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2025 winter Aurora Magazine cover

From left, Peyton Platter, Kyle Gaffney and Matt Hubbarde skate onto the ice at the Carlson Center during opening lineup introductions at the Governor’s Cup game on Jan. 31, 2025.

In the trenches: 100 years of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ hockey
Planetarium construction continues at the west side of the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ Museum of the North on UAF’s Troth Yeddha’ Campus in Fairbanks in August 2025. Photo by Bryan Whitten.

Coming soon: Out-of-this-world experience at new UAF planetarium
Jay Ramras, owner of Pike's Waterfront Lodge, speaks at the Boots and Books Scholarship Dinner on Oct. 23, 2025. UAF photo by Eric Engman.

Fire at Pike’s Landing sparks legacy of scholarship support
GeoFORCE ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ’s fourth cohort — 31 high school students, 11 staff members, a bus driver and one mentor from Doyon Ltd. — gather at Desert View Lookout in Grand Canyon National Park on June 10, 2025.

Connecting ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ’s rural students with geosciences
ACEP 2025 summer interns gather by Golden Valley Electric Association’s solar farm after touring the nearby battery energy storage system.

Transforming ÐÓ°ÉÔ­°æ’s energy future