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First responder shares tips on home emergency preparedness
August 23, 2024
In a free, statewide webinar, learn how thoughtful preparedness can help keep you safe and healthy during emergencies and disasters, when fire departments and emergency medical services are stretched thin.
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Energy Department funds Alaska climate resilience center
August 22, 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced $10 million in funding for 10 innovative climate resilience centers, including one led by the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø.
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Food preservation, gardening workshops planned for Bethel
August 22, 2024
A ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension Service program assistant will travel to Bethel to teach classes on gardening, food safety and food preservation. Jasmine Shaw will lead workshops Sept. 6-8 at the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center, 420 Chief Eddie Hoffman Highway. All events are free.
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Energy costs impose high burden on ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø residents
August 21, 2024
A new report by ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø researchers reveals the energy burden for ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø North Star Borough residents to be drastically higher than the Lower 48.
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Jaunelle Celaire receives 2024 Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence
August 21, 2024
The University of Alaska Foundation Board of Directors has awarded the 2024 Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence to Jaunelle Celaire, UAF professor of voice.
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Microbiologist reviews threats, opportunities of fungi in space
August 21, 2024
Learn about the unseen microbial hitchhikers, including fungi, that join humans in the exploration of space in a free webinar taught by microbiologist Marta Filipa Simoes.
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Learn to save seeds for future generations of plants
August 20, 2024
If you love a plant and want to grow it again next year, tune in to a free, statewide webinar to learn how to save, store and germinate seeds. Alaska horticulturalist Debbie Hinchey will share the knowledge and experience she has gained in more than four decades of collecting seeds.
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UAF receives funding to enhance nuclear proliferation detection
August 19, 2024
The ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø has been named to a group of 12 universities tasked by the federal government with improving and expanding the nation's detection of nuclear weapons proliferation.
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UAF scientists discover phenomenon impacting Earth's radiation belts
August 16, 2024
Two ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø scientists have discovered a new type of "whistler," an electromagnetic wave that carries a substantial amount of lightning energy to the Earth's magnetosphere.
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The recent history of a black rock
August 16, 2024
In June of 1867 -- a few months before Alaska would become part of the United States with the transfer of $7.2 million to Russia -- William Healey Dall picked up a shiny black rock from a riverbank.
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UAF Community and Technical College to host summer graduation ceremony
August 15, 2024
The UAF Community and Technical College will host a special graduation ceremony to celebrate the achievements of students completing degrees and certificates through the Summer Fire Academy and other programs, including aviation. The ceremony is set for 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 16, at Davis Concert Hall on UAF's Troth Yeddha' Campus.
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Tickets available for UAF Business Leader of the Year event
August 15, 2024
Tickets are on sale for the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø College of Business and Security Management's 46th Business Leader of the Year dinner and award ceremony. The 2024 event is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Westmark ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Hotel.
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Climate change means changes to wild Alaska berries
August 14, 2024
Find out in a free webinar what is changing in some of the state's key berry species and what Alaskans can do to ensure that future generations have berries to pick.
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Gulkana study brings Girls* On Ice to international stage
August 13, 2024
Teslin Brannan, as a high school student, collected data during the 2023 Girls* On Ice expedition and analyzed it in a 300-level ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø course.
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UAF researchers aim for quality, quantity in small grains project
August 09, 2024
Tuesday, Aug. 6, was harvest day for the small grains trials project on the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Experiment Farm at the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø. The combine harvester collected seeds from almost 80 varieties of barley, wheat and canola grown to find which varieties thrive in ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø' short summer.
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