UAF in the news: week of April 16, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: (907) 474-7902
04/20/07

Alaska college puts compassion for Virginia Tech on paper
Anchorage Daily News and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS -- Students and staff at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are adding their voices and prayers to the nation’s collective expression of grief over the shootings Monday at Virginia Tech. Read more ...

Virginia shootings prompt review of UAF plans
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
While officials in Blacksburg, Va., are trying to piece together the facts surrounding Monday’s shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, officials at the University of Alaska Fairbanks are trying to figure out what they can learn from it. Read more ...

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center appoints chief scientist
HPCWire
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 19 -- Information transfer expert Greg Newby will oversee and lead scientific investigations that require the use of high performance computational resources as the newly appointed chief scientist at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. Read more ...

Interview: Feral and free
New Scientist
Known as the greatest living field biologist, George Schaller has helped establish some of the world’s biggest wildlife reserves. He tells New Scientist of his life in the wild. Read more ...

Assessing climate change
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
John Walsh, a climate researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, was one of the lead authors of the recently released international climate report, which warns of widespread famine, flood and animal extinction if global warming isn’t checked. Read more ...

UAF to offer two-week courses in May
Sun Star
The university is experimenting with a two-week intensive semester in May that will allow students to earn three upper-division credits before the month finishes. Read more ...

It’s easy to live green
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Ever wonder how to make biodiesel? Build an electric powered car? Sew your own clothes or bind your own books? Have you recently gotten a new laptop and need to recycle your old one? Curious how the University of Alaska Fairbanks mascot, the Nanook, is fairing as global warming persists? Read more ...

MacMillans opting for career moves
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Tavis MacMillan searched for recruits during his 10 seasons as a coach with the Alaska Nanooks. Now, he’s searching for a new career in the sport which he’s had a life-long passion, and in the last three years, served as the head coach at his alma mater, the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Read more ...

Knowledge management
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
"What happened to Marie Antoinette’s children after she was guillotined?
"When is the right time to get married?
"Has there ever been a successful flight by a human in a rubberband-powered aircraft, and if so, how about some blueprints for it?"?
All of the above questions and many more are answered daily by reference librarians at the Noel Wien Library. Read more ...

On a new Quest: Estey stepping down as race director
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Julie Estey will be leaving as executive director of the Alaska office of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race to take a position with the University of Alaska Museum of the North as well as pursue her dream to one day compete in the 1,000-mile sled dog race she helped organize for the past two years. Read more ...

KUAC wins regional awards
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A journalist at KUAC FM, the Fairbanks public radio station, has received three regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. Read more ...

Campbell awed by NHL debut
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Darcy Campbell looked in the mirror after he stepped into the bathroom of the Columbus Blue Jackets’ locker room in the United Center in Chicago.
The former Alaska Nanooks defenseman wanted to confirm that it was a National Hockey League jersey and uniform that covered his 6-foot, 200-pound frame. Read more ...