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Johnsen announces Daniel White as new UAF chancellor

University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ President Jim Johnsen announced that he has selected Daniel White to become the ninth chancellor of the University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks. White will succeed UAF Interim Chancellor Dana Thomas and will assume his new position on July 1.

Dine 49 and Arctic Java are open this summer

Even though the Wood Center has some construction going on, Arctic Java and Dine 49 are still open.

Teaching Tip: Interface literacy for faculty and students

You probably use icons every day. Doing so in a skilled way is called interface literacy, and it’s something that faculty should be able to teach students.

Gear has come a long way

<i>Photo by Ned Rozell</i><br>Cora the dog descends into Haggard Creek on the path of the trans-AVÀÇÂÛ̳ pipeline.
When I walked this same path 20 years ago, I averaged six miles each day. After a few weeks in 2017 of hiking the path of the trans-AVÀÇÂÛ̳ pipeline, it seems easy to do 10 miles a day.

Back then, sometimes my backpack weighed 60 pounds. I'm trying to keep it half that weight now. I started from Valdez with a load of 32 pounds.
Most of the reduction is due to clever people who have engineered lighter gear because consumers wanted it, and because of breakthroughs in materials available to designers.

Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity welcomes staff

Three new employees have joined the UAF Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity. Dana Merriman is the new Title IX and civil rights investigator. Erin Walton is the intake and case coordinator. Casey McMillian rounds out the new team as student assistant. For more information about the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, click

UAF's Lawlor earns NASA prize in Mars habitat contest

In a cramped workshop at his home near Fox, Orion Lawlor is working to develop the technology that could someday allow people to live on Mars.
His creations are modest — small plastic beams and thin, hollow cylinders that can be filled with powdered rock. But items like those, which are created by his one-of-a-kind 3-D printer, may eventually become the components for creating habitat in space.

Plan to be at 2017 Planting Day June 7

Planting Day on the Fairbanks campus will take place Wednesday, June 7, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Centennial series to feature interviews with UAF leaders

The Centennial Celebration Speakers Series, featuring five leaders who helped shape the University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks, will begin June 18 with an interview with former University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ President Mark Hamilton.

HAARP research attracts conspiracies, misunderstandings

Even a casual Google search for the University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks’ High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, better known as HAARP, can get really strange, really fast.

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Music in the Garden continues

An enthusiastic crowd listens to the Opera Fairbanks Orchestra Brass on a rainy evening at the Georgeson Botanical Gardenas part of Summer Sessions’ weekly Music in the Garden series
An enthusiastic crowd listens to the Opera Fairbanks Orchestra Brass on a rainy 2016 evening at the Georgeson Botanical Garden as part of Summer Sessions’ weekly Music in the Garden series. Headbolt Heaters, three songwriters with eclectic sounds of roots, rock, blues, bluegrass and punk, will perform on Thursday, June 1, at 7 p.m. at the Georgeson garden. For this 2017's lineup go
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