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Staff Council sponsors food drive for Fairbanks kids
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UAF Staff Council is sponsoring a food drive in May for the Fairbanks Community Food Bank's Bone Builders program, which serves over 2,000 meals during the summer to school-age children who do not have access to a breakfast and lunch program. Read more
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Office cleaning, trash removal reminders
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Custodial Services would like to remind everyone that all offices are scheduled to be cleaned twice a month and that custodians no longer remove trash from offices. Read more
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Students, professor will join Arctic energy course in Svalbard
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Three master's degree students in UAF's Arctic and Northern studies program will participate in a course on Arctic energy development at Norway's University Centre in Svalbard from June 8-22. Read more
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UA general counsel offers employee ethics training
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University of Alaska General Counsel Mike Hostina will offer ethics training for university employees at 1 p.m. May 24 in the Globe Room of the Elvey Building. Read more
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Mountains full of snow and birds
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In the early going of my second hike across Alaska along the route of the trans-Alaska pipeline, I chose to walk the highway rather than the pipe's route to get up Thompson Pass north of Valdez. The road added six miles to our day. But I tried the pipe route up the pass 20 years ago and it was like trying to climb a 90-meter ski jump. Read more
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Public testimony to regents sought May 22
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Take time to be heard by the University of Alaska Board of Regents. Public testimony will be held via audio conference on Monday, May 22, 4-6 p.m. Read more
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Teaching Tip: Caption your course videos to benefit everyone
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Captions benefit everyone and make a video more useful as well as accessible. This Teaching Tip shows how you can easily add captions to your videos. Read more
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Last look for 2017 graduates
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Forming two lines outside the Carlson Center, faculty greet and congratulate graduates after the Commencement 2017 ceremony on May 6 in Fairbanks. Read more
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UAF scientists offer ideas on tracking Arctic biodiversity
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Changing food sources, shrinking ice, increasing diseases and invading southern species are taking their toll on Arctic marine animals. A new report from the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, the Arctic Council's biodiversity working group, suggests ways to monitor such changes across the Arctic. The 60 international experts in CAFF’s Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Network included Russ Hopcroft, Katrin Iken and Eric Collins from the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Read more
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2017 Really Free Market will be May 20
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The 8th Annual Really Free Market will be held Saturday, May 20, in the parking lot adjacent to the Lola Tilly Commons. Read more
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Moisture played a role in megafaunal extinctions
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A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals that increased moisture levels may have been a primary cause of death for giant herbivores approximately 10,000 years ago. Read more
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Volunteers sought for food security project
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To better understand how food moves through Alaska, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service is working with the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service on a food-mapping project. Mat-Su and Anchorage area farmers, gardeners, restaurant owners, chefs, fishermen and others interested in food distribution are invited to participate in a meeting from 1-4 p.m. May 24 in Room 208 of Kerttula Hall at the Matanuska Experiment Farm. Read more
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Alumni Drive construction continues
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Contractors will work on Alumni Drive's shoulder near the UAF heat and power plant from 7 -5 p.m. daily through Friday, May 19. Read more
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