UAF in the news: Week of Oct. 22, 2007

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: 907-474-7902
10/26/07

Science magazine features UAF researcher’s lake study
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and multiple other national and international publications
A team of scientists, led by a young researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has had its work published in the most recent issue of the magazine Science, slated to hit newsstands today. Read more ...

Words of Wisdom
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Since 1968, the University of Alaska has awarded honorary doctorates to 43 Alaska Natives. At a meeting Wednesday morning, dubbed the Gathering of Alaska Native Wisdom Bearers, many of the surviving holders of honorary doctorates spoke in the Davis Concert Hall to an audience of high school students, visiting Alaska Natives in town for the Alaska Federation of Natives annual conference, and other community members. Read more ...

Alaska educator devoted his life to Bush schools
Anchorage Daily News
Lifelong Alaskan and Homer resident Frank William Hill died Oct. 9, 2007, at Alaska Regional Hospital after a valiant battle with cancer with his wife, Dottie, by his side. He was 67. Read more ...

Fish tech center selects new director
Kodiak Daily News
Dr. Murat Balaban accepted the position of director of the Fishery Industrial Technology Center Oct. 16. Read more ...

Alaska beetles survive ’unearthly’ temperatures
SITNews and Alaska Report
"¨As we pull on winter coats and wool hats to shield our tropical bodies from the cold, there is a creature in our midst that survives Alaska’s coldest temperatures bare-naked. Read more ...

Borealis Brass trombonist presents free recital
Western Michigan University News
KALAMAZOO-- Dr. James Bicigo, trombonist with Borealis Brass, will give a free, public performance at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, in the Dalton Center Recital Hall at Western Michigan University. Read more ...

University of Alaska gets $3.2 million grant for Ph.D. program
Diverse Education
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received a $3.2 million federal grant for a doctoral program combining subjects such as biology and geology with history and sociology. Read more ...

Galloping glacier awes observers
Whitehorse Star and other Canadian publications
A surging Tweedsmuir Glacier could reach – and potentially dam – the Alsek River."¨Doug Makkonen, a Trans North Air helicopter pilot based in Haines Junction, said Thursday there was no evidence of the spectacular surge when he stopped flying into the area last fall. Read more ...

Students dig new climbing wall at University of Alaska Fairbanks
Juneau Empire
FAIRBANKS - Making his way up a 30-foot-long vertical crack in the new rock climbing wall in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Student Recreation Center on Wednesday morning, Tim Ciosek was at about the 20-foot mark when he stopped. Read more ...

UA guide will take International Polar Year into Alaska schools
Anchorage Daily News
FAIRBANKS -- A guide created for teachers by the University of Alaska is aimed at integrating research being done in conjunction with the International Polar Year into classrooms across the state. Read more ...

KUAC radio holds annual fundraiser to help fund operations, buying content"¨
Sun Star
The public radio station that serves Fairbanks and interior Alaska, KUAC-FM, held its annual on-air fund-raising drive this past week. Read more ...

Lt. Gov. Parnell seeks creative solutions to old problems
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Consider Shishmaref. Coastal erosion has already knocked out one sea wall, and another one is in the works.
Villagers have voted to abandon the village, but moving to a new site could cost $170 million, and it’s unlikely the state or federal government will pick up the tab. Read more ...