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Friday Focus: Rural campuses and distance education

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One aspect that makes UAF such a unique and great place is our rural campuses. Our reach is significant and so is our impact. 


Parking for 2021-2022

Starting Aug. 14, you can buy your parking permit through the online portal. You’ll get a two-week temporary permit by email.


Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth

An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the Alaska landscape during its 28 years to almost circle the Earth twice.

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UAF senior design project goes to market

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A team of UAF mechanical engineering students used their senior project to design a better and more mobile inflatable emergency backboard.


Pine grove near Yakutat is farthest north

YAKUTAT — “There they are,” Ben Gaglioti said, after a short hike off a gravel road leading away from this small fishing town. Gaglioti walked in rubber boots on a green, squishy carpet of muskeg — a wild garden of water-loving plants growing on acidic soil that has for centuries prevented the encroachment of giant rainforest trees. He spotted the lime-green shade of a few lodgepole pine trees here, at their farthest-north location in Alaska.

Deadlines and reminders


Pop-up clinic for COVID-19 vaccine

There will be a free COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students, employees and the Fairbanks community on Aug. 18-19 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. in front of Constitution Hall.


UAF Geophysical Institute to mark 75 years with public celebration

Come help the UAF Geophysical Institute celebrate its 75th anniversary. Visit with scientists and enjoy interactive activities to learn about earthquakes, volcanoes, rocket launches, satellites, snow, ice, permafrost and more from 2-6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, in front of the Elvey Building on the West Ridge at UAF.


Pearl Brower to lead Alaska Native success, diversity, inclusion work at UA

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Pearl Brower will be senior advisor for Alaska Native success, institutional diversity and student engagement, and will report directly to UA’s interim President Pat Pitney.


UAF researcher sails north in search of deep-sea answer

How one of the two large basins underlying the Arctic Ocean formed during the Mesozoic Era remains a mystery to scientists. It’s one that geophysics professor Bernard Coakley of the UAF Geophysical Institute is hoping to unravel as he leads an international research project that set sail this week aboard the UAF research vessel Sikuliaq.


 

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