Cornerstone: June 22, 2022

Steve Holmberg. UAF photo by Megan Bean.

Aurora: Steve Holmberg '89: Still singing strong

Steve Holmberg's high school experience with UAF's summer arts camps inspired him to create an endowment so future students can enjoy similar programs. Find out more in the spring 2022 Aurora.

Ethics Act compliance and annual disclosure of employment outside UA

All University employees (including regular, term, temporary, student and full and part-time faculty and staff) are responsible for complying with the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act (Alaska Statute 39.52). The Act sets standards for how we do our University jobs, and to a lesser extent, may limit our non-University activities.

Utqiagvik, where there’s still snow in June

A group of University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty, students and staff has been conducting Arctic fieldwork in Utqiagvik since mid-April to measure snowmelt, but the melt only started in mid-June. This is an exceptionally late melt year.

What's happening today

Discover Alaska lecture: "Tsunamis in Alaska: Are We Ready for the Next Big One?"

Deadlines and reminders

UAF COVID-19 event planning guidance

As things have begun to feel a bit more normal, it's important to remember there are still requirements and recommendations for hosting events on campus.

UAF researchers on Venus mission team for European Space Agency

A University of Alaska Fairbanks professor has been named to a NASA science team for the European Space Agency's EnVision mission to Venus. UAF Geophysical Institute research professor Robert Herrick will be part of the team for the VenSAR instrument, a NASA-contributed synthetic aperture radar that will image and map the planet’s surface.

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