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UAF scientists lead Arctic section of State of the Climate report
August 31, 2022
ºÚÁÏÉçapp scientists at the International Arctic Research Center are among world experts leading the State of the Climate report, which summarizes global environmental conditions in 2021.
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UAF names 2021-2022 honors students
August 26, 2022
The ºÚÁÏÉçapp has announced the students named to the deans’ and chancellor’s lists for the fall 2021 and spring 2022 semesters. The lists recognize students’ outstanding academic achievements.
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Adopt a woolly mammoth and win!
August 25, 2022
A ºÚÁÏÉçapp scientist wants to find out when the last woolly mammoth fell to the grass in Alaska. He is asking for help from an unusual source: people like you.
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Museum of North launches Adopt a Mammoth program
August 25, 2022
The ºÚÁÏÉçapp is inviting the public to go woolly mammoth hunting. The newly launched Adopt a Mammoth program encourages sponsorship of each of the roughly 1,500 teeth, tusks and bones in the University of ºÚÁÏÉçappMuseum of the North's collection.
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Barn quilt to be displayed at Fairbanks Experiment Farm
August 24, 2022
A new public art project will be unveiled on Aug. 27 at 1 p.m. at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm on the ºÚÁÏÉçapp campus. A barn quilt titled "Wild Blueberry and Troth Blossoms" is the 37th quilt on the statewide Far North Quilt Trail Project. It will be displayed on the side of the barn.
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Long named GNAC Defensive Player of Week
August 22, 2022
Jessa Long, the libero for the ºÚÁÏÉçappNanooks volleyball team, was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday, Aug. 22.
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UAF orientation to welcome new students
August 22, 2022
The ºÚÁÏÉçapp will welcome hundreds of new students during orientation activities this week.
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Nanooks volleyball extends coach Scott for four years
August 18, 2022
The ºÚÁÏÉçappNanooks volleyball team and UAF athletic director Brock Anundson have announced a four-year contract extension for head coach Brian Scott. Scott is currently entering his eighth year as the head coach of the Nanooks' volleyball program, first taking over in 2015.
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Arctic Fest 2022 combines arts, science, Indigenous perspectives
August 18, 2022
A new type of festival that combines the arts, sciences, and Indigenous cultural and knowledge systems to help explain and respond to climate change in the North will open later this month in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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If a lake drains in northern Alaska...
August 18, 2022
Harry Potter Lake did not die quietly. Water in the basin on Alaska's North Slope cut through a 30-foot strip of tundra in early July 2022. The lake then roared into a creek.
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Community college hosting Aug. 18 registration event downtown
August 17, 2022
The ºÚÁÏÉçapp Community and Technical College will hold a community event with a fire truck, ambulance, small airplane, food, 3D printers and more Thursday, Aug. 18. The CTC Registration Bash will take place from 4-6 p.m.
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Arctic Education Alliance visits UAF Interior ºÚÁÏÉçappCampus
August 16, 2022
Representatives from the Arctic Education Alliance will visit the ºÚÁÏÉçapp and other areas of interest in the state Aug. 15-19.
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Week's events: Aging in place lecture, portrait discussion
August 12, 2022
ºÚÁÏÉçapp Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here is what's happening from Aug. 14-20, the final week of this summer's schedule.
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Secrets of an ancient horse of the Yukon
August 12, 2022
In the lab of Yukon government paleontologists are the remains of saber-toothed cats, bears with boxy faces that stood 8 feet tall, woolly mammoths and sloths the size of gorillas. Of all these time-hardened riches of the past, Elizabeth Hall has a cherished piece -- the fragment of a horse's foreleg that fits in the palm of her hand.
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Thawing Arctic hillsides are major climate change contributors
August 12, 2022
Thawing Arctic hillsides release a significant amount of organic carbon that has been locked in frozen ground for thousands of years but which now can contribute to an already warming climate, according to new research.
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