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Friday Focus: A whirlwind of activities

“Watch out for March” was the advice I received from the former provost as she passed the baton to me. Little did I understand then what she meant.

Volunteers needed for veterans remembrance

Volunteers are needed to read the names of local fallen service members at a ceremony in their honor April 25 starting at 11:30 a.m.

Changes to key issue process

Key request forms will be accepted at the customer service counter weekdays from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., or requests may be submitted online.

Birds large and small sniff their way through life

In the 1820s, painter and naturalist John James Audubon concluded that vultures hunted using their eyes alone after the scavenging birds failed to find a pig concealed with brush. A researcher from the University of California, Davis started a recent lecture in Fairbanks by pointing out how Audubon erred in his pig-and-vulture experiment.

Featured photo of the week

A reindeer calf was born Saturday, April 13, at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm. She is the third of 12 reindeer calves expected this year at the Reindeer Research Program.

What's on today

Museum Early Explorers: Soil


Deadlines and reminders



Erik Beever: 'Pattern and anomaly in species-climate relationships'

This event, part of the IAB Life Science Hour Seminar Series will be held April 19 from 4-5 p.m. in the Murie Building auditorium.

Communications Between Cultures and Generations workshop

Yup'ik elders Oscar and Sophie Alexie will conduct the workshop from noon-1 p.m. April 23 in IARC 401. Lunch is provided.

Australian author Kim Scott to give reading

Multi-award-winning Australian writer Kim Scott will give a reading at 7 p.m. April 25 in the Murie Building auditorium.

Spring pottery sale

The student spring pottery sale will be held April 26 from noon to 6 p.m. in the ceramics studio, 415 Fine Arts Building.

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