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Friday Focus: A lifetime relationship with UAF

Julie Queen
I am grateful that Administrative Services is such a group of constant professionals willing to roll up their sleeves to support the university. Read more

Innoko is a long river short on people

Innoko is a long river short on people
A quick comparison of two great rivers in America: One, the Wabash, runs 503 miles through Indiana, flowing past 4 million people on its journey to the Ohio River. The other, the Innoko, slugs its way 500 miles through low hills and muskeg bogs in west-central Alaska to reach the Yukon. About 80 people live on the Innoko, all of them in the village of Shageluk. Read more

Cross-cultural Alaska Native dialogs

Sean Topkok (Asiqłuq) will discuss Alaska Native diversity to enhance communication and understanding from 1-2:30 p.m. April 18 in Elvey Auditorium. Read more

Featured photo of the week

Students present their posters to peers, faculty, staff and community members during the 2019 Research and Creative Activity Day in Wood Center. UAF photo by Sarah Manriquez.
Students present their posters to peers, faculty, staff and community members during the 2019 Research and Creative Activity Day in Wood Center. UAF photo by Sarah Manriquez. Read more

What's on today

Pub: Tim Easton
Museum Early Explorers: Soil
KUAC Spring Fundraiser (through April 14)
Reading: Roger Wall
Talk: Avian olfaction
CLA Heart Walk bake sale

What's on this weekend

Beat Beethoven 5K (Sat.)
MFA students public reading (Sat.)
Pub: Taste of Alaska Beer Festival (Sat.)
Talk: 'Enjoying Life at the Extremes' (Sat.)
Talk: 'Femme in Public' (Sat.)
Science Potpourri (Sat.)
Statistics software workshop (Sat.)
Startup internship mixer (Sat.)
Senior piano recital: Scott Hansen (Sat.)
KUAC Spring Fundraiser (Sat.-Sun.)
Junior piano recital: Evelina Savonin (Sun.)
Senior violin recital: Lisa Ibias (Sun.)

Deadlines and reminders

Seed fund applications (April 14)
Blood drive (April 16-19)

Science Pub: 'Predicting fire seasons in Alaska’s changing climate'

Join Uma Bhatt at 5:30 p.m. April 17 to learn the ways scientists predict fire seasons and how they’re adding changing climate to the mix. Read more

UAF researcher to discuss Arctic processes

UAF researcher to discuss Arctic processes
Seth Danielson will talk about a research program geared at understanding variables that influence spring productivity in the Arctic from 3:30-4:30 p.m. April 17. Read more

Thesis defense: 'The Taming of the Stew'

Odin Miller will defend his thesis on humans, reindeer, caribou and food systems in Nome and Teller on April 19 from 2-3 p.m. in Bunnell 302.
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Thesis defense: Faunal analysis at Healy Lake Village

Hilary Hilmer's anthropology thesis defense will take place April 18 from noon-2 p.m. in Bunnell 302.
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