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Charlene Stern, vice chancellor for rural, community and Native education

Friday Focus: College rename leads nation

This week, the UA Board of Regents approved a regulation change that formalized the renaming of UAF's College of Rural and Community Development to the College of Indigenous Studies. This action effectively makes UAF the first public institution of higher education in the Nation to have such a College. The name change which took effect immediately, came as the result of a two-year effort to solicit feedback in the renaming process. In its over 50-year history, CRCD has been known by different names and focused primarily on meeting local and regional educational needs across the Bristol Bay, Northwest, Chukchi, Kuskokwim and Interior Alaska regions. Continue reading this week's Friday Focus.

A woman holding a child stands in a depression in a forest while another child sits on a log suspended above the hole.

A backyard science expedition, in diapers

A fist-size opening in the forest floor exhausted so much air this spring that it built its own chimney of frost. A university researcher -- and her kids -- helped investigate. Read more about her research into permafrost.

UAF in the News

In new book on Soviet gulags, Alaska historian Tyler Kirk examines lingering effects of penal system
(Anchorage Daily News)

Hundreds flock to Aviation Day (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

UAF Northwest Campus Honors 33 Graduates At Commencement
(Nome Nugget)

UAF showcases Arctic research at annual open house (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)

Confined at Sea at the End of the World (EOS)

What's happening

Deadlines and reminders

May VAWS webinar

Join the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy and the Geographic Information Network of Alaska for this month's VAWS webinar on May 29 at 11 a.m. John Forsythe, from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, will discuss the Blended Total Precipitable Water and Advected Layer Precipitable Water satellite products used to track pipelines of moisture which support heavy precipitation. He will also review how ALPW can be used to forecast extreme events as satellite records begin to cover more decades. Learn more and register for the online event.

Members of the Iñu-Yupiaq Dance Group pose in the Wood Center after their workshop during the 2023 Indigenous Peoples Day, a universitywide event hosted by the College of Indigenous Studies. From left are Alliyah Nay, Naatanii Mayo, Cavelila Wonhola and Sonni Shavings.

Regents approve UAF College of Indigenous Studies

The University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Rural and Community Development is now the College of Indigenous Studies. The University of Alaska Board of Regents unanimously approved the name change at its May 23 meeting in Anchorage. Read more on the name and its significance.

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