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Friday Focus: Truth and reconciliation

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Yesterday was a day of remembrance for all those whose lives were impacted by boarding schools in both the United States and Canada designed to assimilate Native children.


UAF faculty co-facilitates European Security Seminar-North

UAF faculty Troy Bouffard recently co-facilitated the week-long seminar, European Security Seminar-North: "Cooperation or Confrontation?"


Fluorescent bill may be seabird's neon sign

A crested auklet, a seabird that breeds on the islands of western Alaska including the Aleutians, stands on a rock.
 

The crested auklet's beak — the color of a tangerine — is so bright a scientist thinks it may be fluorescent.

What's on today

Deadlines and reminders


UAF undergrad uses novel data source to test climate model

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UAF CFOS undergraduate student Emily Williamson and co-author Chris Sergeant, a UAF PhD student, used nearly century-old temperature and precipitation data from a Southeast homesteader to test a popular climate model.


Convocation captioning

Due to a technology failure, the first eight minutes of yesterday’s convocation livestream was without sound. While a recording of the sound is not available, event staff will be adding text from the speech into the video captions on both Facebook and YouTube soon.


About Cornerstone

The Cornerstone employee newsletter is produced by University Relations and emailed to all UAF staff and faculty. You can submit news items here.

 

UAF is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, educational institution and provider and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: www.alaska.edu/nondiscrimination/.