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 The College of Business and Security Management continues to evolve as a business
school here in Alaska as we look to new and innovative ways in which to meet the needs
of our students and the industries we serve. Learn more about their name change, new academic program, Business Leader of the Year, Arctic
Innovation Competition, and Center for Arctic Security and Resilience.
Join Sean Dowgray as he presents a program of works for solo percussion on Wednesday, March 1 from 7:30- 9 p.m. in the Davis Cocert Hall. He is excited to present a collection of rarely performed works that offer an interesting
emotional trajectory in the consideration of environment and space.
Lonely northern cliffs from which scientists have pulled the bones of Alaska dinosaurs
also hold the fossilized remains of birds. Lauren Keller is studying the tiny specks of teeth and bones of birds that died more
than 70 million years ago in what is now northern Alaska. Read more.
The UAF Department of Theatre & Film presents The Shape of Things, written by Neil LaBute and directed by Rachel Blackwell, in the Lee H. Salisbury Lab
Theatre. Showings will be Friday, March 3 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, March 4 at 7:30
p.m.; and Sunday, March 5 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 for students; $15 for seniors/military/UAF; $20 for adults
+ $2 at the door (buy online and save). This play is rated R (some language and sexuality). The show runs for 2 hours, and
there is no intermission. More information.
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UAF Department of Music is excited to host Alaska composer, sound artist, and ecoacoustician,
Matthew Burtner in tandem with UAF's Institute for Arctic Biology at the beginning
of March. Please join us for a lecture and workshop on Thursday, March 2 at 1 p.m. in the Davis Cocert Hall where Burtner and Associate Professor of Biology and Wildlife, Todd Brinkman, will
present on both scientific and musical aspects of Alaska's natural environment, followed
by a performance from UAF music students featuring field recordings taken as part
of Brinkman's research and organized for composition by Burtner.
The College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences will host a seminar on Friday, March 3 from 3-4 p.m., featuring Martin Arostegui, a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
He will present “Environmental controls of surface to deep ocean coupling through
the lens of predators.” The seminar is available via Zoom, with in-person showings
in Juneau at Lena 101 and in Fairbanks at O’Neill 201. Please register in advance.
A $300,000 state grant will help the University of Alaska Fairbanks train local residents
for jobs at the Kinross Manh Choh mine project.
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The Shape of Things
