Save the date: Celebration for Vice Chancellor Sfraga
November 21, 2016
Help congratulate Vice Chancellor Mike Sfraga on his more than 31-year career and service to the university. The program begins promptly at 4 p.m. and will run until 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, in the Wood Center ballroom.
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Sfraga has accepted a position as director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Polar Initiative in Washington, D.C.
The Wilson Center is the only think tank in Washington to house a broad-based initiative on the Arctic. According to the center's press release announcing Sfraga's appointment, the initiative will foster discussion, research and programmatic activity on Arctic and Antarctic issues with the purpose of raising awareness among national and international policymakers about polar issues.
About Vice Chancellor Sfraga
Sfraga earned a bachelor’s degree from UAF in 1984, a master's degree from Bowling Green State University in 1986 and UAF’s first doctorate in northern studies and geography in 1997.
Sfraga has worked for UAF and the University of Alaska system since 1985 in a broad range of administrative, academic and executive positions.
In addition to serving as vice chancellor for university and student advancement, he is also a professor of Arctic policy in the School of Natural Resources and Extension.
Prior positions include UAF vice chancellor for students, director of the UA Geography Program, chair of the Geography Department, and associate dean of UAF's School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Science. At the UA system office, Sfraga served in executive positions, including director of program development and associate vice president.
Sfraga's areas of academic focus include Arctic policy, polar geography, geographic exploration and the history of field science. He is the author of the 2004 biography "Bradford Washburn: A Life of Exploration."
He is a cofounding director of the University of the Arctic’s Institute for Arctic Policy (with partner institution Dartmouth College) and serves on the board of the Institute of the North.