UAF in the news: week of March 5, 2007

 

UAF in the news: week of March 5, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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03/09/07

Ready, aim, fire
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
March Madness arrived in Fairbanks this week, but it’s bullets, not basketballs, that have everyone bouncing off the wall. The NCAA Rifle Championships begin today at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the first time the school and city has played host to a national collegiate championship event. Read more ...

Language extinction
Far North Science
When a species goes extinct, sometimes fossils can be found, remains uncovered. The presence of DNA might allow scientists to decipher the biological essence. We know the Stegosaurus. We can study the Wooly Mammoth. Read more ...

Canada at forefront of ambitious polar study
The Vancouver Sun
One team will venture across Ellesmere Island next month for reconnaissance of the Manhattan-size ice island that has broken off Canada’s most northerly island. Another expedition will see a coast guard icebreaker, the CCGS Amundsen, over-winter in the Beaufort Sea for an unprecedented study of open waters that don’t freeze, even in dead of the Arctic winter. Read more ...

Alyeska makes big donation to UAF
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company has pledged half a million dollars to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
On Wednesday afternoon, Kevin Hostler, Alyeska’s president, presented UAF Chancellor Steve Jones a check for $100,000 and promised to give him four more checks for the same amount over the next five years. Read more ...

Pole-to-pole chatters swap tales of global warming repercussions
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
About 50 students from Fairbanks and Healy had the opportunity Monday to speak with students in Ushuaia, Argentina, located at the southernmost tip of South America. Read more ...

Task force looks at future of university
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A group of 55 university, business and government officials plan to assemble at the University of Alaska Fairbanks today and Wednesday to chart a course for the university’s future. Read more ...

Annual Native Arts festival draws crowd to campus"¬
Sun Star
Crowds of Alaska Natives and locals flocked to the campus last weekend to celebrate the Festival of Native Arts.
The festival, now in its 34th year, has become an annual tradition in the Fairbanks community. Read more ...

Poker Flats launch season ends
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A NASA sounding rocket was launched Tuesday evening from Poker Flat Research Range. Read more ...

Homegrown in Alaska
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Coral Howe thinks there is a problem in Alaska’s pantry.
“We have always just assumed that we just can’t sell Alaskan stuff in other places,” said Howe, who became the Small Business Development Specialist for the Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in October. Read more ...

Alaska scientists aim at offering climate services
SITNews and Alaska Report
"¬Seasons are not what they once were in Alaska. Ice roads on Alaska’s North Slope have a shorter lifespan than they had 30 years ago. The extent of sea ice hugging the northern coastlines gets smaller every year. These changes affect Alaskans and people who work in Alaska, and a few scientists just received funding to make climate science user-friendly for those people. Read more ...

A future with BIOS
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The three main campuses of the University of Alaska each have their own identities, with the Fairbanks campus unquestionably known as the location for high science and research. Yet that fact doesn’t mean that investment in science and research is something that benefits just the Fairbanks area and the Fairbanks campus. Read more ...