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UAF to offer comet viewing -- if the weather cooperates
October 11, 2024
The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ invites the public to view a celestial visitor that hasn't traveled near Earth in at least 80,000 years.
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OneTree ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ celebrates birch trees under the full moon
October 11, 2024
Visit a birch grove under the full moon and learn about these trees Thursday, Oct. 17, on the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥' North Campus. The event, sponsored by OneTree ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, will run from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., with moonrise at 5:47 p.m.
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UAF hosting 2024 Indigenous Peoples Day events
October 11, 2024
The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on Oct. 14 this year with a day full of cultural events and workshops.
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The lion that walked through your yard
October 11, 2024
Grizzly and black bears remind humans that we are not at the top of the food chain in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥. Ancient ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ns shared the grasslands with possibly an even more terrifying predator -- the American lion.
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Anchorage 4-H plans open house for new members
October 10, 2024
The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Cooperative Extension Service is hosting an open house in Anchorage for youths aged 5-18 who are interested in joining 4-H.
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Ocean glider opens new 'tool kit' in crab tracking efforts
October 08, 2024
A remotely piloted underwater glider is showing promise as a tool to track crabs in the Bering Sea, where their numbers have plummeted. The ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Department of Fish and Game and the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ have tested the glider Shackleton for the past three years to locate tagged crabs.
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Museum programs explore skulls in October
October 04, 2024
The University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Museum of the North is focusing on skulls during family programs in October.
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NextGen awards more than $250,000 in scholarships; more available
October 04, 2024
Thirty-one ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ students were awarded a total of $257,934 in scholarships through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's NextGen Program this fall.
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ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ peregrine falcon numbers drop again
October 03, 2024
Skip Ambrose has floated the upper Yukon River almost every year since Richard Nixon was President. Back then, in 1973, only 12 pairs of peregrine falcons perched at nest sites over a 180-mile stretch of river.
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Revitalized project will offer ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ns energy data access
October 03, 2024
A University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ project will update a public energy data resource in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥. With the support of the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Legislature, the university will begin a three-year effort to revitalize the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Energy Data Gateway, a project to create equitable access to ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ energy data and data analytics.
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UAF's high-performance computing resources just got a lot smarter
October 03, 2024
ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ staff upgraded the university's most powerful high-performance computer this summer to significantly increase its capacity and usefulness to researchers and students.
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Remote energy leaders can collaborate to advance energy projects
October 02, 2024
The Energy Leadership Accelerator application period is now open. ELA is a new program that connects energy leaders from remote and islanded communities, including those in ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories, to advance local energy projects and workforce development.
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ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ 4-H kicks off new program year with a special day
October 01, 2024
Youths and volunteers across ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ are enrolling in 4-H as the program year begins this October. They're also celebrating the inaugural ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ State 4-H Day on Wednesday, Oct. 2, and National 4-H Week, Oct. 7-12.
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UAF study tracks traveling population wave in Canada lynx
September 30, 2024
A new study by researchers at the ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥' Institute of Arctic Biology provides compelling evidence that Canada lynx populations in Interior ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ experience a "traveling population wave" affecting their reproduction, movement and survival. This discovery could help wildlife managers make better-informed decisions when managing one of the boreal forest's keystone predators.
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Red aurora rare enough to be special
September 26, 2024
Charles Deehr will never forget his first red aurora. On Feb. 11, 1958, Deehr was a student at Reed College in Portland, Ore. He asked a Fulbright student from Norway named Tone to the Portland Symphony that night.
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