UAF in the news: Week of Aug. 14, 2006

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: (907) 474-7902
08/18/06

UA professor to aid in Lebanon oil spill
Anchorage Daily News and UPI
A University of Alaska professor is headed for the Middle East today to help the government of Lebanon respond to a major fuel spill caused by Israeli bombing of a power plant last month. Read more ...

Flow battery scrutinized at UAF
Anchorage Daily News and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS, Alaska--Normally when someone gets a new toy, especially an expensive electronic gadget, they take very good care of it. But not Tom Johnson at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Energy Center. Read more ...

Arctic nations’ wealth key to management of climate change
Spaceref.com
Arctic nations have the wealth and scientific understanding to alter the course of global climate change, if they choose to do so, writes F.S. (Terry) Chapin III, of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in a paper to be published August 9, 2006 in the journal Ambio. Read more ...

Candidates get lesson in UAF
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
University of Alaska President Mark Hamilton confidently moved back and forth at the front of the lecture hall on Monday afternoon. Part lecturer, part salesman, part proselytizer, Hamilton’s gestures were firm, his voice strong enough so that those all the way on the back row of the Schaible Auditorium wouldn’t miss a word. Read more ...

Nanooks hockey to air on KYSC
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Tanana Valley Radio, KYSC (96.9 FM) has signed an agreement to air all of the Alaska Nanooks hockey games during the 2006-07 season. Read more ...

Humble, historic cabin reels anthropologists in
Jackson Hole Star Tribune and other publications
FAIRBANKS, Alaska--Gleaming, multimillion-dollar buildings at the University of Alaska Fairbanks stand as symbols to the advancement of science in the North and a research budget of more than $120 million."Â"ÂBut if you know where to look on the campus of 5,600 students, tucked in a remnant of the boreal forest you can find a smaller testament to research in a different age. Read more ...

Gender gap worries educators
Hartford Courant
While black, Hispanic and low-income children again lagged far behind others on statewide mastery test scores, another group of students also remained mired in a chronic - though often less noticed - achievement gap. Read more ...

Multiagency effort launched to rebuild Kodiak red king crab stocks
SITNews and Fishupdate.com
"ÂWhat might be the future of Kodiak’s red king crab fishery arrived in Seward, Alaska recently, wrapped in wet burlap and packed in coolers marked "live crab." Read more ...