Cornerstone: May 8, 2024

Tracy Vanairsdale stands with CBSM students and dean.

Vanairsdale named 2024 UAF Business Leader of the Year

The University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Business and Security Management has named Tracy Vanairsdale as the recipient of the 2024 UAF Business Leader of the Year award. Read more about Vanairsdale and her selection.

UAF to offer two new Athabascan language courses this fall

The Alaska Native Language Center at UAF will offer two new Native language courses for the fall 2024 semester. The center will offer Lower Tanana-Benhti Dene/Athabascan, which has not been taught at UAF in more than 20 years. The second language, Upper Tanana Dene/ Athabascan, will be offered via two courses this fall. Learn more about the new courses.

New beginning adult pickleball camp

UAF Summer Sessions in partnership with the Farthest North Pickleball Club is offering an adult beginning pickleball camp Tuesday and Thursday, June 6-20 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Learn all the basics to start playing on the first day. Read more on the sessions and register.

Game design fundamentals workshop

Unleash your creativity and enjoy delicious food at an upcoming Game Design Fundamentals workshop at The MILL in Bunnell 143 on June 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning. Join Drake Richards, UAF Esports coordinator, and Eric Lonn, CTL media designer, for an exciting and interactive session on the art of making board games fun. Learn more and register.

What's happening

Gardening webinar: Composting: No Time to Waste (May 28)

Deadlines and reminders

A UAF shuttle sports a new wrap recently installed onto the vehicle. The van will be used primarily for new and prospective students visiting campus, orientations and campus preview days, and airport shuttles. It is also available by request for researchers on the road.

UAF shuttle welcomes season with new coat

In case you haven't spotted it just yet, you'll definitely notice one of the UAF shuttles sporting a new look as the weather has warmed up here in the Interior. The "new" shuttle is part of the old fleet, but with a new look/wrap. Keep an eye out for the newly-wrapped shuttle and be sure to pass on a friendly greeting to our UAF drivers who help move students, staff and faculty around campus daily! Read more about the new shuttle and its use.

A topographical map including markers for Mt. Foraker, Mt. Crosson, Mt. Hunter, Kahiltna Peaks and Denali. A blue arrow to the west of Denali indicates the location of Matthew Crisafi-Lurtsema.

Microplastics low and high in Alaska

A group of scientists from UAF's Water and Environmental Research Center in 2020 and 2021 sampled snow and freshwater from more than 70 locations on a south-to-north transect, mostly along highways. Their recently published study showed plastic fragments everywhere they sampled, from the Kenai Peninsula to the North Slope. Learn more about discoveries made during the sampling.