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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • Two men stand on a rock outcropping overlooking mountain valley with a river.

    The galloping glacier's recent dramas

    August 23, 2024

    In 1937, what scientists call a "surging" glacier was rumbling across the valley toward a roadhouse along a major ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ highway. That mountain of ice advanced upon the log structure at more than 100 feet each day.

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Fairbanks is central to science

At 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the Fairbanks campus is well situated for northern research. UAF research in arctic biology, engineering, geophysics, supercomputing, and ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ Native studies is renowned worldwide.

UAF ranks in the top 150 of nearly 700 U.S. institutions that conduct research. UAF has ranked in the top 11 of more than 10,000 institutions worldwide for number of citations in climate change publications.

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Your discoveries support ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥

University researchers work to combat challenges ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ns face on a daily basis. We are helping ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ns live more comfortably and safely with a secure future by bringing research dollars into the state. More than 80% of the university’s research is directly related to ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥.  

To support research innovation, the University of ÀÖ»¢Ö±²¥ hosts many professionally staffed laboratories with highly technical capacities. Our labs and field facilities are available to all scientists. 

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