Cornerstone: Jan. 22, 2024

Chancellor's R1 Forum

Join Chancellor Dan White for a discussion about R1 on Thursday, Jan. 25 at 1 p.m. in the Wood Center Ballroom (location changed). The event will also be online. Have a question about R1? Submit it here.

A woman holds a trowel and a dustpan while sitting on a flat dirt surface.

On the ancient trail of a woolly mammoth

The female woolly mammoth was 20 years old when she stumbled amid the grasslands. She fell in a cloud of dust, then gasped her last breath of cool air. It was a late-summer day, 14,000 years ago. Read more about the mammoth.

UAF overview for UAF remote employees

There's still space available in the overview of the university for new remote employees on Tuesday, Jan. 23 from 1-2 p.m. Please sign up here to be added to the calendar invitation. Participants will receive a branded T-shirt.

White papers sought for S-STEM program

The main goal of the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program is to enable low-income students with academic ability, talent or potential to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. Submissions are due by Feb. 2. Learn more about the program.

Gmail announces important changes to bulk mailings Feb. '24

Do you handle messaging for your departments? Are you in charge of working with newsletters not configured by your campus IT support team? Does your department send bulk emails or newsletters using a third-party or cloud-based service like SalesForce or Constant Contact? Important changes are coming and we want you to be prepared! Read more about this change.

Call for abstracts and early registration open for Wakefield Fisheries Symposium

We want to hear from fishery researchers, managers, and other professionals at the 2024 Wakefield Fisheries Symposium. All are invited to submit abstracts by Feb. 13 for oral or poster presentations. Registration is also open for the symposium. An early-bird registration fee of $450 is available through Monday, March 18. Read more about the symposium.

A gull makes off with a scrap from someone's lunch in a parking lot on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

Gulls swap habitats, machine-learning study finds

A recent study published in Ecological Informatics by a team of University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers has used artificial intelligence to further illuminate a habitat swap among short-billed gulls. Read more about the study.