Friday focus: 2019 planning, leadership communication

I look forward to sharing more frequent updates with you and to receiving regular updates from other campus leaders. Read more

Bill Schnabel named College of Engineering and Mines dean

A strong advocate for engineering, Schnabel will oversee and manage all operations under CEM and will report to the provost/executive vice chancellor.

Across Alaska and a sliver of western Canada, 280 seismic stations silently do their jobs. Hidden in dark holes drilled into rock in boreal forest, northern tundra and mountaintops, the instruments wait patiently for the next tremor. Read more

Featured photo of the week

Happy holidays from UAF! Colorful trees brighten and decorate the Fairbanks campus in winter. Read more

What's on today

ROTC commissioning ceremony

What's coming up

Sparktacular (Dec. 31)
Women's basketball v. Western Washington (Jan. 3)

Men's basketball v. Concordia (Jan. 3)

Hockey v. Northern Michigan (Jan. 4-5)

Women's basketball v. Simon Fraser (Jan. 5)

Men's basketball v. Western Oregon (Jan. 5)

Hockey v. Northern Michigan (Jan. 5)

Deadlines and reminders

Research hall of fame nominations due today

Regent's Adjunct Award nominations due today

Honorary degree, emeriti, Usibelli, People's Endowment nominations due (Jan. 31)

Device re-authentication after winter break

Next Cornerstone: Jan. 9, 2019

Karen Jensen to become director of libraries

Jensen is a professor of library science and has been at UAF since 1996. Her experience includes serving as head of library collection development. Read more

Essay collection honors historian Terrence Cole

Contributors include former students and colleagues whose personal and professional lives he has touched deeply. Read more

Head to Antarctica! (Sort of)

Physicists Kylee Branning and John Elliott are sharing from their latest research mission to the continent via a Facebook group. Read more

Asia's glaciers are big seasonal factor in river flow

New data from scientists at the Geophysical Institute suggests glaciers in the high mountains of central Asia will shrink more slowly than predicted by some other research. However, as glaciers lose mass, the eventual decline of available ice to melt may affect rivers more than anticipated. Read more