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  • Two nursing students examine a dummy patient lying in a hospital bed.

    UAF CTC seeks public input on LPN program for accreditation review

    September 13, 2024

    The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Community and Technical College is seeking public feedback as part of the review process for the accreditation of its licensed practical nursing program by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing.

  • A man measures a knot in a two-by-four piece of lumber with a yellow tape as another looks on.

    ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Lumber Grading Program adds training dates

    September 13, 2024

    Four training dates are scheduled in October for individuals who wish to earn certification from the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Lumber Grading Program. The free program's purpose is to expand ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ns' ability to use locally harvested lumber for homebuilding.

  • A green plant with purplish flowers grows in a field.

    Multistate project to evaluate alfalfa in northern climates

    September 13, 2024

    ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ soil scientist Caley Gasch has been named co-principal investigator in a multistate project to study alfalfa grown in northern climates.

  • A simple black-and-white outline map of the United States overlaid by the state of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥.

    A guide to the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ that was (is)

    September 12, 2024

    In 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Federal Writers' Project. His goal was to provide jobs for American writers who found themselves unemployed after the stock market crash of 1929. Merle Colby was one of those writers.

  • The Pinopolis Lock in the Charleston, South Carolina, area

    Dams built to prevent coastal flooding can worsen it

    September 12, 2024

    The common practice of building dams to prevent flooding can actually contribute to more intense coastal flood events, according to a new study.

  • ACUASI aircraft flying at Nenana airport

    Monday open house set for ACUASI's new Nenana drone hangar

    September 12, 2024

    A public open house for the new Nenana hangar of the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16.

  • A group of small brown mushrooms grow in a rocky clearing.

    Webinar to discuss role of mycorrhizae in soil health

    September 11, 2024

    Learn about mycorrhizae and their role in creating a healthy soil environment for plants in a free webinar at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18. Caley Gasch, research assistant professor of soil science at the Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center in Palmer, will shepherd participants through the world of mycorrhizal fungi.

  • A person shows a large clove of garlic in preparation for planting in the field in the background.

    Webinar to discuss growing and preparing garlic

    September 10, 2024

    Learn to grow garlic and to cook the flavorful vegetable in new ways during a free webinar led by Heidi Rader.

  • Groups of college students sit and interact at round tables in a large, airy, brightly lit space.

    UAF to host grand opening for Student Success Center Sept. 18

    September 09, 2024

    The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ will host a grand opening for its new Student Success Center on the sixth floor of the Rasmuson Library on Wednesday, Sept. 18. The event is free and open to the public.

  • A young girl stands beside a glass museum case sketching the head of a mummified step bison.

    September museum programs explore sketching

    September 06, 2024

    The University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Museum of the North will focus on sketching during family programs in September.

  • UAF names summer 2024 honors students

    September 05, 2024

    The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ has announced the students named to the deans' and chancellor's lists for the summer 2024 semester. The lists recognize students' outstanding academic achievements.

  • A green caterpillar raises its head from the palm of a person's hand.

    Why is that caterpillar looking at me?

    September 05, 2024

    On a trip to Quartz Lake, visitor to ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Garrett Ast once plucked a caterpillar from a twig. As Garrett held it in his palm, the caterpillar reared up and -- with two sparkling baby blues -- looked him right in the eye.

  • Ice fog over Fairbanks

    New research has implications for Fairbanks winter air quality improvement

    September 04, 2024

    Work led by ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers shows that the effort to improve Fairbanks' wintertime air quality by reducing the amount of primary sulfate in the atmosphere may not be as effective as intended in the deep cold.

  • A man in a red life jacket and a mosquito headnet holds a portable computer tablet over a rock on the side of a river. A yellow raft full of gear is moored to the riverbank below.

    The lost world of northern dinosaurs

    August 30, 2024

    On a recent river trip in northern ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, scientists from the University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Museum of the North found a lost world, a time of "polar forests with reptiles running around in them."

  • A cow muskox and her calf stand together in front of a black rubber feed bowl in a field of green grass.

    LARS to host Sept. 7 event for local residents

    August 30, 2024

    The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Large Animal Research Station will close out the summer tour season with a special event for local residents on Saturday, Sept. 7. The event will include tours and a sale in the gift shop, with everything discounted 15%.

  • A person wearing blue latex gloves dabs a blue-colored liquid herbicide on the newly cut stump and suckers of a chokecherry tree.

    Fairbanks Experiment Farm, Georgeson staff begin weeding out chokecherries

    August 30, 2024

    On Monday, another step was taken in the long process of weeding out popular but invasive chokecherry trees on the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Troth Yeddha' Campus. Seven chokecherry trees (Prunus padus and Prunus virginiana) were removed from Georgeson Botanical Garden and the Fairbanks Experiment Farm, including a tree planted in 1993 in honor of Arbor Day.

  • Damaged highway in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥

    UAF scientist's method could give months' warning of major earthquakes

    August 29, 2024

    The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest over large areas, according to research by a ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ scientist who analyzed two major quakes in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ and California.

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