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Tiny crystals provide insight to massive 2006 Augustine Volcano eruption
July 11, 2025
Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed information about the process triggering the major 2006 eruption of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ's Augustine Volcano.
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ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ climate report: June jumped from cool to hot, hot, hot
July 11, 2025
June began cool and wet but rapidly changed to hot and dry at the midpoint, with wildfires bursting out across the state, according to the monthly summary from the ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Climate Research Center.
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One big earthquake, two ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ ghost towns
July 11, 2025
DOME CITY -- "I'm really happy to be out here," Carl Tape says as he stands on a pyramid of dry gravel, 20 feet high. "I've been thinking about this earthquake for 10 years."
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Week's events: Brian O'Donoghue, AI and heart health, relating to the land, summer music
July 11, 2025
University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of July 14-20.
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UAF names spring 2025 honors students
July 10, 2025
The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks has announced the students named to the deans' and chancellor's lists for the spring 2025 semester. The lists recognize students' outstanding academic achievements.
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Webinar to show how plants can reduce stress, improve well-being
July 10, 2025
Join Stacey Shriner, education director with the ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Botanical Garden, to learn more about therapeutic horticulture and how plants can help individuals meet their social, physical and mental health goals. The free, statewide webinar is hosted by the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service.
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Whale poop links toxic algal blooms to ocean warming
July 09, 2025
Analysis of bowhead whale poop shows that more toxins from typically warm-water toxic algae species are entering Arctic food webs as northern oceans warm and lose sea ice.
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ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ agricultural science on display at Field Days
July 08, 2025
Spend an afternoon with researchers in the fields of the experiment farms in Fairbanks or Palmer and learn about the agriculture-related science happening at the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks. UAF's Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension invites farmers, gardeners and community members to tour the fields and farms and learn through presentations, tours and discussions at these free educational events.
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Rural ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Honors Institute will celebrate 43rd graduation
July 07, 2025
The Rural ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Honors Institute will hold its 43rd annual graduation July 10 at 1 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium on the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks Troth Yeddha' Campus. The ceremony will stream live on Facebook.
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ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ's state insect is not the mosquito
July 02, 2025
Thirty years ago, students from the Auntie Mary Nicoli Elementary School in Aniak were among those who held a statewide election to declare an insect that best represented ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ. Their school's winner: The dragonfly.
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Week's events: Mike Thomas, chronic pain, urban muskoxen, alt-bluegrass
July 02, 2025
University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of July 7-13.
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Campers cook with UAF greenhouse produce
July 01, 2025
Budding chefs got a taste of science this June. Students in two cooking camps at the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks used tomatoes grown during research into greenhouse productivity.
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Chukchi Consortium Library to close Sept. 1
June 30, 2025
The Chukchi Consortium Library in Kotzebue will close permanently on Sept. 1, 2025. The UAF Chukchi Campus has operated the library with local contributions from the Northwest Arctic Borough since 2010. UAF made the decision to close the library due to declining state and local funding.
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Museum offers behind-the-scenes tours
June 27, 2025
The University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Museum of the North is offering behind-the-scenes tours this summer. Visitors will get exclusive tours of the museum's labs and work spaces, where collection managers and curators take care of 2.5 million objects and specimens.
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Week's events: Randy Zarnke, progressive rock
June 27, 2025
University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 29-July 5.
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