UAF in the news: week of June 5, 2006

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: (907) 474-7902
06/09/06

Students learn highs, lows of finance world
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A few minutes before noon on Thursday, Will Finley got up before a group of eager investors. Read more ...

Wooly mammoth ivory big in Alaska
Washington Post/Associated Press and multiple locations nationwide
In Anchorage’s downtown ivory shops, alongside whale-baleen baskets and walrus-tusk statuettes, are souvenirs made from the fossils of shaggy Ice Age beasts that died on the tundra thousands of years ago. Read more ...

Fish Factor
SITNews and Fishupdate.com
"ÂCruise the baby food aisles of any American supermarket and you’ll see jars of beef, chicken, lamb, eggs - every kind of protein except fish. That could soon change if an initiative by Alaska food scientists and the seafood industry is successful. Read more ...

Former governor to teach class on state’s energy role
KTVA, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Associated Press
A former Alaska governor will be donning a professor’s hat this week. Read more ...

Finding their own dance
Calvin College news
A Calvin College professor has earned a pair of grants that, combined with a trio of Calvin grants, will help fund a project that will take her to Alaska for a five-month journey. Read more ...