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Julie Queen, vice chancellor for administrative services

Friday Focus: Helping our Nanook Nation to do its best work

As we enter the new year and a new academic semester, there are many things to feel optimistic about. It is a time for assessing how we did over the past year and for setting new goals for the coming year. Some targets we miss, and learn from - those are usually the ones that help us the most! Some things we achieve, and could be better at celebrating. However you approach it, turning the corner on a new year helps us put in perspective how far we have come. In Administrative Services, we are excited to hit the ground running in 2023 and we're already thinking about ways to celebrate the achievements yet to come.


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Nanook Sports Update

Bereal, Jr. and Mohamed lead way for Nanooks in victory over Wildcats

Face-Off Club to host Nanooks hockey school on Thursday, Feb. 2

Women's hoops adds another signee in Anna Nevison


Ciaran Shaughnessy, NSF research fellow and adjunct professor at the University of DenverAnimal Physiology Faculty Candidate Seminar

Ciaran Shaughnessy, NSF research fellow and adjunct professor at the University of Denver, will present "Comparative Physiology of Basal and Anadromous Fishes: Studies on Osmoregulation and Neuroendocrinology in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Biomedical Contexts" in the Murie Auditorium on Monday, Feb. 6 from 3-4 p.m. A reception will follow in the Murie Lobby. Shaughnessy is visiting UAF as a candidate for a position as an assistant professor of animal physiology for the Department of Biology and Wildlife and the Institute of Arctic Biology.

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Photo of Karen Spaleta in the Alaskan outdoors during winter.Geoscience Seminar today at 3:30 p.m.

At the Geoscience Seminar today at 3:30 p.m. in the Elvey Building Auditorium and via Zoom (Meeting ID: 861 3292 6377 Passcode: 950618), Karen Spaleta, deputy director at the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility at UAF, will discuss "Finding solutions to the world’s pending critical minerals supply crisis: Developing new geochemical analytical methods and evaluating the potential for Te and Bi extraction from existing Au mines." In her research, Spaleta analyzed samples from the Pogo Mine Mill in Central Alaska and the Golden Sunlight Mine Mill in Whitehall, Montana. She hopes that her metallurgical study will help identify potential critical minerals at other Au mines with known significant Bi and Te.


UAF in the News

What Humans Can Learn from Some of Nature's Most Skilled Hibernators (PBS NewsHour)

An Alaska Student Project Found Microplastics in Bering Strait-area Spotted Seals (ArcticToday)

Rediscovering the Gold Rush Town of Chena (North of 60 Mining News)

How Indigenous Oral Tradition Is Guiding Archaeology and Uncovering Climate History in Alaska (Medium)


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