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Sara Gast, deputy executive director for the Carnegie Classifications

R1 Carnegie visit scheduled for July 14

UAF will be hosting Sara Gast, deputy executive director for the Carnegie Classifications, on July 14 to present on the Carnegie Classifications for R1 institutions. A public presentation is scheduled at 10 a.m. in the Murie Auditorium. This event is open to all UAF staff, faculty and students. No RSVP is required. Light refreshments will be provided.


Spaces available in all-day field day camp, July 17-21

This camp for students entering grades 3-8 is designed to provide a wide range of field day game activities, including but not limited to basketball, dodgeball, ultimate frisbee, kickball, capture the flag, soccer, water games, and more. 


Instrument installation

Delta Junction air quality monitoring site joins new national network

Four science instruments at Delta Junction have begun gathering air quality data as part of a multistate project to determine the chemical content and physical properties of airborne particulate matter. Learn more ...

Deadlines and reminders


A painting shows a mammoth walking on landscape of tundra, rock, snow and glaciers.

Adopted mammoth fell 15,000 years ago

A few days ago, Mat Wooller had news about a woolly mammoth my friend LJ and I “adopted” last October. “You’ve got one of the youngest ones,” said Wooller, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and inventor of the Adopt-a-Mammoth program. Wooller’s goal is to carbon-date the 1,500 mammoth fossils that rest in drawers within the University of Alaska Museum of the North. Read more ...


UAF in the News

Reeling Arctic glaciers are leaving bubbling methane in their wake, scientists warn (Washington Post)


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