Botany course turns students’ surroundings into a lab

Photo courtesy of Steffi Ickert-BondStudents in Steffi Ickert-Bond's systematic botany course spend half a day each week in the field learning about Alaska's flora. In her new online botany course students will spend a significant amount of time exploring the flora in their own communities.

Alaska’s awe-inspiring flora has been the subject of Steffi Ickert-Bond’s lab-intensive biology courses for more than a decade. This summer, with the help of technology, her students will instead use their own communities as their lab space. Read more

Sandra Kowalski joins state education board

The Alaska Legislature has confirmed Sandra Kowalski's appointment to the Alaska State Board of Education and Early Development. Read more

Featured photo of the week

Paramedicine students with the Community and Technical College practice a vehicle extraction April 11, 2018, at the Fairbanks Solid Waste Facility.

Paramedicine students with the Community and Technical College practice a vehicle extraction on April 11 at the Fairbanks Solid Waste Facility. Photo by JR Ancheta. Read more

What's on today

Deadline: Invent Alaska Competition

Blood drive

Student art sale

Talk: Immigration in the U.S.

What's on this weekend

Museum: Teen Studio (Sat.)

Nanook Olympics (Sat.)

Choir of the North spring concert (Sat.)

GI Tract Fun Run (Sun.)

Deadlines and reminders

Deadline: Faculty regalia rental

Alexander Hirsch interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition

Alexander Hirsch was interviewed on April 21 by Scott Simon on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition on the subject of sexual abuse in Alaska. The audio and a transcript is online. Read more

University to separate UAF and statewide IT services

At the direction of UA President Jim Johnsen, a new organizational structure for information technology will be formed with separate units at UAF and statewide. A transition team will look at options for dividing responsibilities between those units.