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Friday Focus: Native American Heritage Month

-- by Charlene Stern. Current generations of Alaska Native peoples are the product of all those who came before us and the experiences that shaped our collective history.


UAF scientist wins prestigious award for Arctic research

John Walsh, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has received the Mohn Prize for his outstanding research in the Arctic.


A break in the clouds allows the Sikuliaq crew to use GINA-provided visible images to navigate around larger ice floes.

UAF's GINA provides a guiding hand in Arctic Ocean research

Satellite imagery produced at the Geographic Information Network of Alaska, or GINA, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute helps the research vessel Sikuliaq weave its way through sea ice.

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UA Giving Day nets $661,000 in support of UAF students, programs

Over the course of 49 hours, 748 donors contributed $661,709 in support of students and programs at the University of Alaska Fairbanks during the university's second annual Giving Day event.


Dozens of birds fly above a mud flat, while others stand on the mud.

Blown back to Alaska, bird perseveres

A bar-tailed godwit recently arrived in New Zealand on its second attempt to get there from Alaska, after a storm had blasted it back.


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