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Last year, we decided we needed to zhuzh up the foyer area of our VCR Office Suite
in the West Ridge Research Building. We wanted it to be a welcoming place where people
feel comfortable and not feel like a dentist's office waiting room. The team did a
great job executing an affordable makeover; all they wanted from me was a quote to
put on the wall. That is when the project stalled. What quote should I use? Who should
I honor, above all others, and put their handwriting on the wall, literally? The pressure!
It was our youngest team member who said, why don't you choose the quote you use in
your presentations? To my blank stare, she read back to me from my own presentation,
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together," the African
proverb. I do use that a lot! It is very meaningful to me in many aspects of my life
and I think it is the key to our success at UAF. Not just for 2024, but moving into
the future. Continue reading this week's Friday Focus.
 Natchiq Grows Up: A Story of an Alaska Ringed Seal Pup and Her Changing Home, by Donna
D.W. Hauser, Kathryn J. Frost, and Alex V. Whiting, is now available from University
of Alaska Press. Learn more about the newly released book.
Using evidence held in white spruce trees, researchers think a 1783 volcanic eruption
in Iceland was a catastrophe for northwest Alaska residents, who had no idea why their
July turned into November that year. Read more about this unique year in Alaska's history.
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