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Dear UAF community,

Thank you for supporting UAF through your involvement with the Blue and Gold Celebration. I am writing to share with you that the 2022 Blue and Gold Celebration has been postponed.

I appreciate your patience as we work to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 at our UAF campuses and public events. UAF has made great efforts to resume in-person classes and activities on campus, but we continue to be cautious about planning large-scale in-person events. I am so grateful for those who supported and attended the virtual 2021 Blue and Gold Celebration, but I also recognize that people around the world are weary of online events.

We look forward to resuming the tradition of the Blue and Gold Celebration and have made arrangements to honor and celebrate our alumni and faculty in 2022. The UAF Alumni Association will celebrate the recipients of the Distinguished Alumnus Award and William R. Cashen Service Award during the 2022 Nanook Rendezvous reunion. Alternate plans are underway to celebrate the recipients of the 2022 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards this spring. 

There will be other opportunities to showcase your support for UAF students. Details are forthcoming, but for now, please consider supporting first-generation students at UAF today with a gift.

We look forward to bringing back the UAF Blue and Gold Celebration in winter 2022-2023, and we thank you for your continued support.

With gratitude,

Morgan Dulian

Morgan Dulian, director of development

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Student speaker

 

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Award recipients

 

2021 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards recipients

Teaching

Dr. Denise Thorsen

Research

Dr. Donald "Skip" Walker 

Service

Dr. Eduard Zilberkant

 

 

Alumni awards recipients

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Kyle Hopkins '00

William R. Cashen Service Award

Russ Knapp '69

 

 

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February 27, 2021 YouTube Video

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Award recipients

2019 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards recipients

Teaching

Charles Mason

Research

Katey Walter Anthony

Service

Michael West

 

 

2020 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards recipients

Teaching

Diane McEachern

Research

Katrin Iken

Service

Juanelle Celaire

 

 

Alumni awards recipients

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Caroline Tritt-Frank ’90, ’01

William R. Cashen Service Award

Paul H. McCarthy

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Award recipients

Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards recipients

Teaching

Patty Martinez Meritt

Meritt acceptance speech introduced by Nathaniel Snyder (audio)

Research

Matthew Wooller

Wooller acceptance speech introduced by Juliette Funck (audio)

 

 

Service

Charles N. Dexter

Dexter acceptance speech introduced by Marcela Nichifor (audio)

 

Alumni Awards recipients

Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient

Neal Fried ’78

Fried acceptance speech introduced by McKenzie Mitchell (audio)

William R. Cashen Service Award recipient

Denise Wartes ’96, ’01, ’07

Wartes acceptance speech introduced by Robby Strunk (audio)

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AWARD RECIPIENTS

Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Award

Teaching
Sarah Fowell

Research
Eugenie Euskirchen

Services
Erin Pettit

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Eric Toskey ’86, ’90

William R. Cashen Service Award

Kurt Koudelka ’95, ’96

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Award Recipients

Philanthropists of the century

 

Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards recipients

 

 

2017 Blue and Gold Gala program (PDF)

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2017 Blue and Gold Gala slideshow