Patty parking lot closed June 23 for Midnight Sun Run 2018

The Patty Center parking lot (4B) will be closed for the Midnight Sun Run Saturday, June 23. Read more

Climate shift may have spurred migration across Bering Land Bridge

Royal Society Open Science imageAn image shows the one-time location of the Bering Land Bridge, as well as the site on St. Paul Island where a UAF-led team took a sediment core. Archaeological sites in Alaska and Asia help chart human migration across the land bridge.

A new study led by UAF researchers determined that the climate on the Bering Land Bridge shifted to wetter, warmer conditions about 15,000 years ago and likely encouraged the first human migration from Asia to North America. Read more

Firefighters help with surprise delivery

The UFD crew helped deliver a baby in medic vehicle June 2. Read more

Featured photo of the week

Rural Alaska Honors Institute students taking Introduction to College Writing conduct class outside at Cornerstone Plaza Friday June 8, 2018.

Rural Alaska Honors Institute students study for their Introduction to College Writing course in Cornerstone Plaza on Friday, June 8. View online

Teaching Tip: Integrating arts and humanities into the science classroom

UAF Associate Professor Mary Beth Leigh integrates technical and creative writing into her Environmental Microbiology course. Read more

On the calendar

Music in the Garden: Rock Bottom Stompers (today)

Brown Bag Lunch: Mathew Mund (today)

Resilience Film Festival (today, Friday)

Inside Out (Friday)

Museum behind the scenes (Friday)

C-SPAN bus (Saturday)

Birthday Bash and Mud Day (Sunday)

Talk: Down Memory Lane, Bob Carlson (Monday)

Deadlines and reminders

Patty lot closed for Midnight Sun Run (Saturday)

Deadline: leave usage (Saturday)

Deadline: BLaST proposals (Monday)

Deadline: Meritorious Service nominations (June 30)

Occupational endorsement discount

Extended: BLaST equipment funding opportunity

Proposals are extended to June 25, 2018, for the purchase of biomedical equipment for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. Read more

UAF researcher studies Alaska resources from afar

Jeff Fay photoDave Verbyla stands by a downed birch tree on the UAF campus. He is studying how freezing winter rain affects tree mortality, especially white spruce.

Dave Verbyla has used remote sensing and geographic information systems to study shrinking boreal lakes, the breeding range of trumpeter swans, spruce beetle infestations, and the flammability of aspen and birch stands. Read more