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Mental health awareness, training

Deer Oaks offers webinars to help understand and build fortitude during challenging times. A great starting point is to take a mental health screening. It's quick, free and confidential.


A parabola-shaped valley between tundra-covered mountains features a braided river draining from a glacier.

Mummified forest tells tale of changing north

Twelve summers ago, a warden at Canada's northernmost national park -- in a land that has not hosted trees for thousands of years --found some wood protruding from mud near a glacier.

What's on today

Deadlines and reminders


Residential parking lot snow removal

Facilities Services will be removing snow from residential parking lots on the Troth Yeddha' Campus through Jan. 7.


A woman crouches by the shoreline on a pebble beach while working with scientific sampling equipment on a sunny summer day. Beyond an inlet of Auke Bay lies an evergreen-covered ridge, and, far across Lynn Canal, the snow-topped mountains of the Chilkat Range rise in the background.

Plastic in the rain of Southeast Alaska

Researcher Sonia Nagorski discovered just how ubiquitous plastic has become when she looked at precipitation near Juneau.


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/.