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Workshops on saving seeds, breeding plants planned
August 09, 2024
Jim Myers, a professor of vegetable breeding and genetics at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University, will lead three workshops on saving seeds and breeding plants.
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Week's events: George Rydlinski, Swedish death cleaning, ending suicide, string band
August 09, 2024
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the final week, Aug. 12-18.
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Pondering the mystery of the Mesa people
August 08, 2024
Now as quiet as wind whispering through grass, a plateau rising from the flats of northern Alaska was for thousands of years a lookout for ancient Alaskans.
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UAF will buy instruments to expand ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø air studies
August 07, 2024
A $702,000 National Science Foundation grant to the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø will pay for two science instruments to expand the study of wintertime air pollution and summertime wildfire smoke in cold-weather cities such as ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø.
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Researchers find unexpectedly large methane source in overlooked landscape
August 07, 2024
A new study from UAF researchers reported that upland landscapes were releasing some of the highest methane emissions yet documented among northern terrestrial ecosystems. The research was sparked when a potent greenhouse gas began ballooning under lawns in ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø.
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Far North Currant Festival highlights less-known Alaska berry
August 06, 2024
Currants are getting their day in the spotlight at the Far North Currant Festival. Currants, a type of berry, grow well in Alaska and are found across the state, with varieties ranging from a translucent red to trailing black.
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Boylan, Simpson, Spellman named 2024 Usibelli Award winners
August 02, 2024
The ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø has announced the recipients of the 2024 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards.
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Museum exhibit, video series to explain Aleutian Island storm history
August 02, 2024
A 2022 science cruise to the Aleutian Islands to learn about ancient storms and tsunamis has generated a traveling museum exhibit and video series that highlight the research and how scientists and Indigenous Alaskans worked together.
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Week's events: Wendy Dominique, liveability, longevity, jazz
August 02, 2024
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of Aug. 5-11
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A shaky September in Yakutat Bay
August 02, 2024
More than a century ago, eight prospectors were panning the glacial sands near Hubbard Glacier when the Earth starting shaking and never seemed to stop. A few days later, they had survived a natural phenomenon they probably should not have.
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UAF volcano field school explores 20th century's biggest eruption
August 01, 2024
Eight students from across the United States were the latest participants in the International Volcanological Field School, which began in the late 1980s and became a for-credit offering in 2004.
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UAF Day at the fair scheduled for July 30
July 29, 2024
The ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø will host UAF Day at the Tanana Valley State Fair on Tuesday, July 30. UAF employees, students, alumni and friends will receive $1 off admission by wearing UAF apparel or showing their PolarExpress card. The day will include UAF activities throughout the fairgrounds.
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Week's events: Roger Brunner, arthritis surgery, space torpor, musical fusion
July 26, 2024
ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of July 29-Aug. 4.
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Learn to pickle vegetables in hands-on workshop
July 25, 2024
Discover the ancient and delicious art of pickling in a two-hour, hands-on workshop in Anchorage.
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UAF remote sensing scientist receives international award
July 24, 2024
Remote sensing professor Franz Meyer of the ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø has been honored by an international society for his education and outreach efforts.
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