UAF in the news: week of Aug. 27, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: (907) 474-7902
08/31/07

Pavlof Volcano hints of bigger show ahead
Anchorage Daily News and multiple other news outlets
One of Alaska’s most active volcanoes continued vigorously erupting into its second week, with larger explosive eruptions still expected, officials said Thursday. Read more ...

Students stuggle to find affordable housing
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
With about a week left until classes begin, many University of Alaska Fairbanks students are on the hunt for a place to live. Read more ...

UAF professor reveals history via cookbooks
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
University of Alaska Fairbanks history professor Carol Gold recently published “Danish Cookbooks: Domesticity and National Identity, 1616-1901.” Read more ...

Penwell takes long road to Connecticut
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A photograph on the Hartford Courant’s Web site on Aug. 22 shows a moustached, stocking cap-wearing and rifle-toting U.S. airman searching through the rubble of a bombed-out former residence of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2004. Read more ...

Ripe for the picking: Raspberries ready for harvesting
Peninsula Clarion
While summer still has a few weeks left, fall colors are already starting to show, the first of which are the ripening fruits of the various species of raspberry plants found around the Kenai Peninsula. Read more ...

Sting operation: Bees, wasps busy biting this time of year
Peninsula Clarion
Bees are coming to the end of their cycle in central Kenai Peninsula neighborhoods, but not before many stop for a bite of residents or their pets. Read more ...

University of Alaska Fairbanks registration now open
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Registration is open for the fall semester at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Tanana Valley Campus. Read more ...

UAF alumnus awarded fellowship
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
UAF anthropology professor and alumnus Ben Potter has received a postdoctoral fellowship awarded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. Read more ...

UAF gets initial go-ahead for Arctic research vessel
Anchorage Daily News and other Alaska news outlets
FAIRBANKS -- The University of Alaska Fairbanks is one step closer to having a $123 million research vessel for use in studying the Arctic Ocean. Read more ...

Hitting it off with members of the opposite sex takes chemistry
A2Mediagroup
University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Hector Douglas has found that, for crested auklets, chemistry has both amorous and practical applications. Read more ...