— By Owen Guthrie. I love this old aerial image of Troth Yeddha'. It was taken by
Bradford Washburn on a late September afternoon in 1938. The Main Building of UAF,
now gone, looks to have been designed with such aspiration! I am guessing it was the
largest and most future-focused building in Fairbanks at the time.
A variety of UAF researchers have recently been awarded funding for their work. Please
join Vice Chancellor for Research Nettie La Belle-Hamer in congratulating them for
their successful proposals.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced today that the Kuskokwim Consortium
Library is among 30 finalists for the 2022 National Medal for Museum and Library Service.
The Kuskokwim Consortium Library is the only institution in Alaska to be selected
as a 2022 finalist.
Two sounding rockets soared northward from Poker Flat Research Range early Thursday
morning in an experiment to study how energy behaves during an aurora.
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What's on today
What's on this weekend
Deadlines and reminders
The University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Business and Security Management will
award over $40,000 in cash prizes and scholarships Saturday, April 16, after the final
round of presentations in the 2022 UAF Arctic Innovation Competition.
Military suicide prevention is the focus of the upcoming IAB Life Sciences Seminar
on Friday, April 8 at 3 p.m. via Zoom.
Tyler Kirk is an assistant professor of history and the assistant director of Arctic
and Northern Studies at UAF. He will give a presentation and Q&A at noon on Friday,
April 8, via Zoom.
The lynx looks out from inside a chicken-wire cage. Despite its loss of freedom and
the nearby squeaking of boots on cold snow, the wild cat looks calm, as if it might
be resting while digesting a snowshoe hare.
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