URSA offers undergraduates up to $2,500 for spring projects

Phillip Wilson received URSA funding to research prehistoric surges of the Black Rapids glacier.

Students in any year of study and department may apply. Funding may be used for a stipend, tuition, travel, services and supplies. The deadline is
Nov. 11. Read more

Updated field firearms policy online

The policy was revised over the summer following feedback and recommendations from UAF employees and administrators. Read more

UAF researcher co-edits journal issue on North America's plants

Ten papers from a 2017 botanical symposium in China co-organized by the University of Alaska Museum of the North’s Steffi Ickert-Bond have been published in a special edition of an academic journal.

The magnificent creature was fooled by vocal plumbing — similar to its own but much smaller — imitating the groan of a receptive female. The bull moose grunted twice, then strode through spruce trees at the far side of a river. Read more

What's on today

Mobile blood drive

Swimming v. Azusa Pacific

Flu shot clinic — Facilities Services

Museum early explorers: Carnivores

What's on this weekend

Museum teen studio (Sat.)

Swimming v. Azusa Pacific (Sat.)

Volleyball v. Western Washington (Sat.)

Explore health care careers (Sat.)

Celebration of Writing (Sat.)

KUAC Fall Fundraiser (thru Oct. 28)

Deadlines and reminders

Census data workshop (Oct. 24)

Professional development: Personalities (Oct. 25)

IARC salon: Using social media in the sciences

The October 25 science short-talk theme is "using social media in the sciences." Read more

Welcome reception for Trimble Gilbert Oct. 22

Rev. Trimble Gilbert receiving an honorary degree of law at the 2016 commencement ceremony.

To honor Trimble Gilbert's appointment as a visiting elder professor, the College of Rural and Community Development will host a reception for him Oct. 22.

The carnival includes games, a balloon artist and trick-or-treating. Suggested donation of $1 per child or canned goods for the Wood Center food pantry.