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Chancellor's forum on strategic planning

Join the chancellor and the strategic planning committee chairs for an update and to ask questions. The forum will be from 1-2 p.m. April 11 in Wood Center. Read more

KUAC hosts Spring Fundraiser

UAF faculty, staff and students help take phone calls during KUAC fundraisers. Here, members of the Staff Council volunteer during a recent fundraiser. Photo courtesy of KUAC.
Anyone who wants to help is invited to sign up to select a time to answer phones April 12-14. There'll be food, fun and photo-ops! Read more

Prevent water runoff pollution

Here are 11 things you can do to prevent water runoff pollution. Help keep our waters healthy and clean! Read more

BLaST Scientist of the Month

Melissa Clark works in the lab with mentor Cristina Hansen.
Clark’s research experience started in the molecular immunology lab investigating the antigen processing pathways in the immune response. Read more

April weather in March

In March, most of Alaska had weather normally expected in April. “March was too warm," said Martin Stuefer, Alaska's state climatologist. "It was as if we didn’t have March this year. We had April instead.”
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What's on today

Music at One
FemCon 2019
Pub: FemCon Wine Tasting; Jazz Night

Deadlines and reminders

MFA student public reading (April 13)
Alaska Seed Fund applications (April 14)

Volunteers still needed for commencement

Parking attendants, greeters and information table support are all needed on May 4 to make Commencement 2019 a success! Read more

April museum programs: soil

A paleontologist brushes soil away from a fossil during fieldwork on the Colville River in 2014.
Hands-on programs at the UA Museum of the North during the month of April will allow participants to learn about soils. Read more

IAB Life Science Seminar: Simone Meddle

Simone Meddle
Simone Meddle will present "Neuroendocrine and environmental interactions underlying reproductive behavior in birds” on April 5 from 4-5 p.m. in Murie.
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Humanities Colloquium Series

"Literacy for Emergent Bilinguals: Collaborative Multimodal Meaning Making" will be presented at
1 p.m. April 9 in Gruening 306. Read more

ASRA applications due April 15

Alaska Summer Research Academy application deadline is April 15
The Alaska Summer Research Academy will accept applications through April 15 for its middle and high school programs. Read more

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