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Milan Shipka named acting director for SNRE

Milan Shipka
On July 1, SNRE's academic programs will move into CNSM, and Shipka will then serve as the acting director for the combined AFES and CES units.
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Changes to advising, registration, class schedule publication

The fall schedule will be online March 25; farewell to the printed registration form; set your students' PIN; and track advising with Nanook Navigator. Read more

HPV vaccine for students

The HPV vaccine can prevent certain cancers, and students can get it for free at the Student Health and Counseling Center! Read more

What's on today

BP Career Day
Talk: 'Shikoku Pilgrimage'
Talk: 'More Summer Wildfires?' (Science for Alaska)

Deadlines and reminders

UNAC travel award applications (today)
BLaST undergrad research applications (Feb. 24)

Virtual open house at the Center for Arctic Policy Studies

Learn about CAPS' work, and share your ideas and priorities, at 10 a.m. Feb. 22. Read more

Lynda.com workshop

Learn how to gain marketable skills from more than 2,000 online tutorials — for free! — at a Lynda.com workshop March 5 from 1-2 p.m. Read more

Newly discovered marsupial lived among Arctic dinosaurs

Patrick Druckenmiller photoExcavation at a dinosaur bone bed along the Colville River.
A research team has discovered a previously unknown species of marsupial that lived in Alaska’s Arctic during the era of dinosaurs, adding a vivid new detail to a complex ancient landscape. Read more

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