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August 15, 2025
Working as a Teaching Assistant this term? The Center for Teaching and Learning invites you to its two hybrid orientation sessions.
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Alaska Sea Grant State Fellows announced for 2025
August 15, 2025
Eleven new Alaska Sea Grant State Fellows are preparing to start work at the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, ADF&G, Alaska Mariculture Alliance, NOAA, Central Council Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, and Alaska Sea Grant.
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UAF Bookstore Bundle - Fall 2025
August 12, 2025
The UAF Bookstore Bundle makes access to required course materials affordable and convenient for students. For students who prefer to purchase their course materials on their own, the opt-out option is available until Sept. 5, 2025.
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Try something new this fall with Nanook Recreation
August 11, 2025
Registration is now open for a beginner-friendly strength training program. The six-week fitness class starts Tuesday, Sept. 2, and is free for Nanook Recreation members. Space is limited.
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URSA announces AY2025-2026 Mentor Award recipients
August 08, 2025
The Office of Undergraduate Â鶹¹ÙÍø and Scholarly Activity congratulates the individuals who received an URSA AY2025-2026 Mentor Award.
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URSA announces Fall 2025 Student Project Award recipients
August 08, 2025
The Office of Undergraduate Â鶹¹ÙÍø and Scholarly Activity congratulates the individuals who received an URSA Fall 2025 Student Project Award.
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Volunteers needed: First-year student move-in
August 04, 2025
Get ready to roll out the blue and gold carpet for our incoming first-year students! First-Year Move-In will be on Thursday, Aug. 21. This is a fantastic opportunity to welcome new students and their families to the campus community and help them settle into their new home away from home.
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Help Party in the Park reach 200 booths
August 01, 2025
It's a party and everyone's invited! UAF's annual Party in the Park will take place on Thursday, Aug. 28, from noon to 3 p.m. in Constitution Park. This lively outdoor event is a campus-wide celebration to kick off the fall semester and welcome new and returning students to the Nanook community.
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Discover mushrooms with UAF Summer Sessions
July 24, 2025
There are a few spaces still available in a weekend intensive Introduction to Mycology non-credit course for adults, taught by Christin Swearingen, from Aug. 15-17.
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July 21, 2025
Thank you for an awesome Summer Ice Cream Thursday season. Attendance on July 17 was just over 350 people eating ice cream in the sun, having fun and helping create community. The CSE staff would love to see Ice Cream Thursday hit over 400!
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Plastic Free July: Fishermen take action for cleaner coasts
July 21, 2025
Alaska Sea Grant is partnering with coastal communities to reduce discarded plastics and other marine debris from Alaska shorelines through the Community-Led Marine Debris Removal program.
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New bench on Wildfire Walk trail
July 18, 2025
The UAF North Campus has a new bench, thanks to Uma Bhatt and David Newman. The bench is located on the Wildfire Walk trail, approximately halfway through the interpretive signs area in the burn scar of the 2021 Yankovich Road Fire site.
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Call for Proposals: URSA Community-Engaged Learning Awards
July 11, 2025
Undergraduate students, graduate students, researcher staff, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from all UAF-affiliated campuses are invited to apply for an URSA Community-Engaged Learning Award of up to $5,000.
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RSVP today for Nanook Rendezvous
July 09, 2025
Don't miss out on our all-class Nanook Rendezvous reunion, July 17-19, during Golden Days. Whether you graduated last year, 60 years ago, or somewhere in between, we'd love to see you. This three-day celebration includes signature events, campus experiences, and opportunities to honor fellow alumni. Admission to all events is free.
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Building ventilation and wildfire smoke
July 07, 2025
Now that wildfire season has arrived, many members of the UAF community have been asking why they can smell smoke inside campus buildings and why the buildings' HVAC systems don't eliminate the smell.
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Nenana parking lot land use permit with NIT
July 07, 2025
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø has entered into a Land Use Permit with Northern Industrial Training, LLC. As part of this agreement, NIT will use a designated portion of the Nenana Parking Lot to operate a commercial driving school.
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Toolik Field Station names 2025 early career research awardees
July 01, 2025
The Institute of Arctic Biology's Toolik Field Station has selected five recipients for their student and early career research Tundra Award in 2025.
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July 01, 2025
Join the Department of Military and Veteran Services on July 18, along with UAF alumni and members of faculty, staff and student body, as the university celebrates Nanooks who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces with the unveiling of a Veterans Wall.
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CNSM hosts SLMath summer school on sea ice modeling
July 01, 2025
This June, UAF had the honor of hosting a two-week summer school sponsored by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Institute (SLMath), an internationally renowned center for advancing mathematical research and innovation, funded by the National Science Foundation and private donors. The program, focused on mathematical modeling of sea ice and the ecological diversity of polar environments, brought together 40 graduate students from a variety of academic backgrounds--including aerospace engineering, biology, statistics, pure, and applied math--five of whom were UAF students.
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Full-day summer camps with openings
June 30, 2025
UAF Summer Sessions still has openings in several of its full-day summer camps in July and August.
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Go behind the scenes at the museum
June 30, 2025
The Â鶹¹ÙÍø Museum of the North is offering behind-the-scenes tours to visitors this summer. Participants will get exclusive tours of the museum's labs and workspaces, where collection managers and curators take care of 2.5 million objects and specimens.
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Openings in Sign Language Fun kids camp
June 27, 2025
UAF Summer Sessions has openings in some of our full-day and half-day summer camps. Sign Language Fun has openings for rising second and third grades, July 14-18, from 9 a.m. to noon.
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Alaska at the forefront of wind energy innovation
June 25, 2025
ACEP researchers Gwen Holdmann and Richard Wies highlight in a recent article how the environmental and economic challenges many small, remote communities in Alaska experience have also created opportunities, leading to innovations that later became mainstream.
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UAF students awarded Gilman Scholarship for study abroad
June 17, 2025
UAF students John Davis, Kaylana Nations, and Matthew Lesh were all recently awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which supports students studying abroad.
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Wildlife M.S. student, Sam Simon, receives 2025 Angus Gavin Award
June 16, 2025
Department of Biology and Wildlife M.S. student, Sam Simon, has been selected as a co-recipient for the 2025 Angus Gavin Memorial Migratory Bird Â鶹¹ÙÍø Grant award.
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