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Holly McDonald appointed as UAF university registrar

Holly McDonald has been appointed as University Registrar. Holly's relationship with UAF began over 25 years ago as a student. After working as a student employee and finishing her bachelor's degree at UAF, she began working at the Center for Distance Education, now eCampus, in 2001. Her institutional knowledge and extensive working relationships across campus and the UA system are an asset as she continues to serve our university as university registrar.


UAF names 2021-2022 honors students

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the students named to the deans’ and chancellor’s lists for the fall 2021 and spring 2022 semesters. The lists recognize students’ outstanding academic achievements. Students receiving a 3.9 grade point average or higher are placed on the chancellor’s list, while those receiving a grade point average of between 3.5 and 3.89 are named to the deans’ list.

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UAF hosting series of Arctic Fest events

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is hosting a series of events Aug. 29 through Sept. 3 as part of Arctic Fest, a festival combining art, science, innovation, and Indigenous perspectives with a focus on the changing environment of the circumpolar North.


A gray-haired man with a mustache, wearing a red T-shirt and a blue checkered flannel shirt, holds a large old bone from a mammoth. In a clearing in the background is a picnic table and the front end of a motor home. Behind those is a forest of spruce and willows, with a hill in the distance.

Adopt a woolly mammoth and win!

A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist wants to find out when the last woolly mammoth fell to the grass in Alaska. He is asking for help from an unusual source: people like you.


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