UAF in the news: Week of May 15, 2006

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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05/19/06

Family takes UAF lessons home
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Ulric Ulroan was restless when he arrived home after his last test as a University of Alaska Fairbanks student last week. Read more ...

More than 1,100 degrees conferred at UAF ceremony
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Anchorage Daily News and Associated Press
Camera flashes popped, blowhorns sounded and families and friends cheered to the point of drowning out the strains of Pomp and Circumstance as more than 1,100 degrees were conferred on University of Alaska Fairbanks graduates Sunday at the Carlson Center. Read more ...

Researchers fan out to find bird flu in Alaska
NPR
The first migratory birds from Asia are showing up in Alaska, where the federal government is spending millions to detect H5N1, the strain of avian influenza many fear could mutate into a deadly form that can spread among humans. The virus has already killed millions of birds and at least 100 people in Asia alone. Read more ...

Welcome to the family
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and continued national and international hits.
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have helped establish a new branch on the primate family tree. Read more ...

Climate change blamed for Pleistocene megafauna bust and boom
Scientific American and continued national and international hits.
Around 13,000 years ago, the world’s climate began to change. Seas rose, glaciers retreated and ecosystems began to transform. At roughly the same time, humans arrived in North America, perhaps attracted by migrating game or newly hospitable land. Over the course of the next few millennia a host of indigenous large-bodied mammals, such as the mammoth, died out. Scientists have long debated whether climate warming or human hunting brought about this megafauna extinction. New radiocarbon dating results support the environmental explanation. Read more ...

Peninsula gardeners seed Web
Anchorage Daily News
KENAI -- Two local green thumbs are hoping to cultivate a new Web site as a forum for sharing information on gardening in the central Kenai Peninsula. Read more ...

Museum of the North presents fresh angles on Alaska art and history
Anchorage Daily News
FAIRBANKS -- In this city notorious for cubelike buildings that are cheap and easy to heat, the new University of Alaska Museum of the North has everyone literally thinking outside the box. Read more ...

Oleson to help at camps
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The all-time leading scorer at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will return to the Patty Center to offer his expertise during the Alaska Basketball Academy hosted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks men’s basketball program. Read more ...

Golf tournament to benefit Nanooks
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host the 22nd annual IBEW Nanook Fund Golf Scramble on June 16 at the North Star Golf Club. Read more ...