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Bone Builders food drive

Staff Council has partnered with Bone Builders to host a food drive in April. Donations help provide lunches to local schoolchildren who do not have a school lunch program to rely on during the summer. Collection boxes will be placed across the Fairbanks campus April 2-16. Read more

Registration open for racial equity workshop

The Biomedical Learning and Student Training program — or BLaST — will offer a racial equity workshop April 7. All students, staff and faculty are welcome to participate. Read more

Study links climate policy, carbon emissions from permafrost

Study links climate policy, carbon emissions from permafrost
Controlling greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades could substantially reduce the consequences of carbon releases from thawing permafrost during the next 300 years, according to a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. Read more

Deadlines and reminders

Student Title IX training deadline March 30
CEM awards banquet April 6
Invent Alaska competition through April 27
Employee meal plan options

Oregon researcher to discuss predator persistence

Oregon researcher to discuss predator persistence
An Oregon State University researcher will talk about climate change and predator persistence in the eastern Bering Sea from 3:30-4:30 p.m. March 28 on the Fairbanks campus. Read more

Staff Council brown bag lunch: 'Crucial Conversations'

The Staff Council University Advocacy Committee will host a series of brown bag lunches starting Tuesday, April 10, with "Crucial Conversations," led by Nicole Cundiff, Keli Hite-McGee and Pips Veazey in IARC 401 from noon-1 p.m. Read more

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