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Johnsen announces Daniel White as new UAF chancellor
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University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen announced that he has selected Daniel White to become the ninth chancellor of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. White will succeed UAF Interim Chancellor Dana Thomas and will assume his new position on July 1. Read more
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Dine 49 and Arctic Java are open this summer
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Even though the Wood Center has some construction going on, Arctic Java and Dine 49 are still open. Read more
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Teaching Tip: Interface literacy for faculty and students
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You probably use icons every day. Doing so in a skilled way is called interface literacy, and it’s something that faculty should be able to teach students. Read more
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Gear has come a long way
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When I walked this same path 20 years ago, I averaged six miles each day. After a few weeks in 2017 of hiking the path of the trans-Alaska pipeline, it seems easy to do 10 miles a day.
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Back then, sometimes my backpack weighed 60 pounds. I'm trying to keep it half that weight now. I started from Valdez with a load of 32 pounds.
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Most of the reduction is due to clever people who have engineered lighter gear because consumers wanted it, and because of breakthroughs in materials available to designers. Read more
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Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity welcomes staff
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Three new employees have joined the UAF Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity. Dana Merriman is the new Title IX and civil rights investigator. Erin Walton is the intake and case coordinator. Casey McMillian rounds out the new team as student assistant. For more information about the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, click here.
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UAF's Lawlor earns NASA prize in Mars habitat contest
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In a cramped workshop at his home near Fox, Orion Lawlor is working to develop the technology that could someday allow people to live on Mars.
His creations are modest — small plastic beams and thin, hollow cylinders that can be filled with powdered rock. But items like those, which are created by his one-of-a-kind 3-D printer, may eventually become the components for creating habitat in space. Read more
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Plan to be at 2017 Planting Day June 7
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Planting Day on the Fairbanks campus will take place Wednesday, June 7, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Read more
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Centennial series to feature interviews with UAF leaders
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The Centennial Celebration Speakers Series, featuring five leaders who helped shape the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will begin June 18 with an interview with former University of Alaska President Mark Hamilton. Read more
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HAARP research attracts conspiracies, misunderstandings
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Even a casual Google search for the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, better known as HAARP, can get really strange, really fast. Read more
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About Cornerstone
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The Cornerstone staff and faculty weekly newsletter is emailed to employees each Wednesday. Please visit the news website, too.
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Music in the Garden continues
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An enthusiastic crowd listens to the Opera Fairbanks Orchestra Brass on a rainy 2016 evening at the Georgeson Botanical Garden as part of Summer Sessions’ weekly Music in the Garden series. Headbolt Heaters, three songwriters with eclectic sounds of roots, rock, blues, bluegrass and punk, will perform on Thursday, June 1, at 7 p.m. at the Georgeson garden. For this 2017's lineup go here.
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