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Focus on the future: Distinction at UAF

— By Dan White. The following is a modified version of my Chancellor's "7-minute" report to the Board of Regents. I am not sure where 7 minutes came from, but that appears to be the magic number.


A woman watches an olive-colored songbird flap its wings and open its beak as she holds it by the feet.

Bird havens on a transcontinental journey

Right about now, songbirds in Brazil are shifting on their perches, feeling mysterious impulses that will soon make them leap off their branches and head toward Alaska.


Student Health and Counseling offers groups, workshops

The UAF Student Health and Counseling Center is offering a variety of groups and workshops this spring for students, staff and faculty.


Aurorasaurus

Citizen scientists invited to contribute to aurora research

The upcoming NASA LAMP launch from Poker Flat Research Range presents an opportunity for "citizen scientist" involvement through Aurorasaurus, a project funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation.

What's on today

What's on this weekend

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An acrylic collage of a boardward at Creamer's Field

KUAC announces 2022 poster

KUAC's 2022 poster is "Twisted Boardwalk" by Jessie Hedden, inspired by the wetland areas at Creamer's Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge. There will be a poster unveiling via Facebook Live Saturday, March 5 at 2 p.m.


BLaST Undergraduate Research Experience funding

Applications are being accepted for the Biomedical Learning and Student Training Summer 2022 Undergraduate Research Experience until Feb. 27 at midnight.


Gwich'in elders book wins several awards

The book "Our Whole Gwich'in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich'in K'yuu Gwiidandài' Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih," earned an honorable mention last week for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize, the most recent among several honors it has received in the past year.


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