UAF in the news: Week of Dec. 18, 2006

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: (907) 474-7902
12/22/06

Happy Holidays

UAF graduate receives nation’s top honor
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate Katey Walter recently received the nation’s most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations by the Council of Graduate Schools. Read more ...

Fishery program reels in $5 million
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Anchorage Daily News, Juneau Empire and KTVA
The University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Rasmuson Foundation are hammering out the details of a $5 million grant aimed at retooling the school’s fisheries program. Read more ...

Chinook had Alaskans dreaming of green Christmas
Alaska Report
By Ned Rozell"ÂFairbanks, Alaska - On December 8, 2006, in the middle of Alaska, the air temperature on the roof of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 37 degrees Fahrenheit. The normal high temperature for this date is 5 degrees. A chinook wind is blowing over Alaska. Read more ...

Cooperative Extension to the rescue
Anchorage Daily News
Have a holiday cooking or home canning question? Call the Food Safety and Food Preservation’s toll-free hot line at 1-888-823-3663 or visit the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Web site at www.uaf.edu/ces/homeeconomics and click on Ask an Expert. Read more ...

Best art books of the year
PopMatters.com
The author, an anthropology professor and director of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, re-examines old notions that Native art and culture were lost after white settlers invaded their land. Read more ...

Inlet currents being mapped
Peninsula Clarion
High-frequency radar signals beaming from new radar stations at Nanwalek and Anchor Point began bouncing off waves on lower Cook Inlet recently, part of an effort by the University of Alaska Fairbanks to map surface currents over a 1,350-square-mile area between the mouth of Kachemak Bay and Augustine Island. Read more ...

UAF campus to close for winter break
UAF newsroom
Most University of Alaska Fairbanks offices will close for the holidays beginning Friday, Dec. 22 at 5 p.m. and will reopen Wednesday, Jan. 3 at 8 a.m. Read more ...

Editor’s note: "UAF in the news"? will be on a one-week hiatus for the holidays. Look for the New Year’s edition on Jan. 5, 2007.