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Friday Focus: Happy anniversary, NARL!
August 05, 2022
In a rare week of blue-bird days in Utqiagvik, I had the honor and pleasure to participate in the 75th anniversary celebration for the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL). Hosted by Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation (UIC) this celebration brought together North Slope Borough community members, for profit and not-for-profit corporations, and both past and present Arctic researchers, including many of us from UAF.
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Teaching Tip: Inviting nonviolent communication in the classroom
August 03, 2022
Nonviolent communication is a framework for authentic expression and a tool for building empathy and connection; it has significant potential for fostering productive communication in the classroom.
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Friday Focus: Leadership is all about balance
July 29, 2022
In a recent team-building meeting with the UAF core leadership team (the Vice Chancellors, Executive Director for Advancement Taber and Executive Officer Conley), we each were given a set of five cards, each with one word on it. We were each to choose a word that described our current state. In my deck of five was the word "balance."
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New Student Orientation swag bag items needed
July 27, 2022
New Student Orientation is around the corner, and the office of New Student Orientation would like your departments, information, and resources to be represented!
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Pause in paper, cardboard and plastic recycling
July 27, 2022
The UAF Recycling team normally collects paper, plastic, aluminum and cardboard. Due to a temporary closure of the borough's Central Recycling Facility, the team will begin picking up these materials up again when the CRF has re-opened.
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Ryan Cortez named associate director of Military and Veteran Services
July 25, 2022
The UAF Department of Military and Veterans Services is excited to announce the selection of Ryan Cortez as its new associate director.
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Concur getting new look in September
July 25, 2022
Concur, UA’s travel system, will be updated with a new look and improved user interface, and is planned for roll out Sept. 1, 2022.
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Central receiving and surplus available
July 25, 2022
A variety of items are available to UAF staff that are free to check out for any and all departments that may need them via central receiving and surplus. The section has also started Govdeals.com up again where the public can bid on items that are no longer needed by the University.
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Gail Priday joins Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning as associate director
July 22, 2022
Gail Priday has joined Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning as the associate director. She brings to the position an excellent background in program development, public outreach as well as classroom teaching experience.
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Friday Focus: Advancing university identity
July 22, 2022
Everything we see matters. It could be a name on a building, a banner on a website or the side of a building, or a story in the local newspaper. I spend a lot of time thinking about how UAF is perceived, how we talk about ourselves and how to tell our stories, while advancing this university and ensuring that UAF is a place of belonging for all students, faculty and staff.
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Shining a light on AVÀÇÂÛ̳ household solar installation motives
July 20, 2022
What are the factors that drive people to buy solar panel installations? Are people with solar panels more likely to buy an electric car or install other energy-efficiency and energy-saving technologies? These are the questions that University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks senior mechanical engineering student and AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Center for Energy and Power intern Cole Sudkamp-Walker is investigating.
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Alumni awardees give back to AVÀÇÂÛ̳ and UAF
July 20, 2022
The UAF Alumni Association will recognize a pair of health care professionals and a devoted UAF booster at this year's Nanook Rendezvous.
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UAF emergency scholarship program wins national award
July 18, 2022
The UAF Emergency Scholarship Program received the 2022 Gold Star Award from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. The award recognizes innovative ideas in the financial aid arena.
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988: Three-digit dialing code for Suicide and Crisis Lifeline goes live Saturday
July 15, 2022
On July 16, 2022, callers can dial 988 to connect to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s (the Lifeline) network of highly trained call center professionals. Those in AVÀÇÂÛ̳ who dial from a 907 area code will connect to Careline AVÀÇÂÛ̳, where trained crisis counselors can provide confidential support 24 hours, 7 days a week.
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July 15, 2022
UAF is reviewing how we onboard new and returning employees to improve the process across our campuses. To do this, we are asking staff hired within the last five years (2018 through June of 2022) to provide feedback by completing a brief anonymous survey. It should take about 5-10 minutes to complete.
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Friday Focus: Modernizing the enrollment experience
July 15, 2022
In the early 1990s, I worked with a field research team in Egypt. Among many wonderful experiences, one of the things I marveled at was the arcane nature of the Egyptian department store retail model.
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Call for abstract submissions on building safety and community in field settings
July 13, 2022
Toolik invites researchers at UAF and beyond to submit an abstract on efforts to remove barriers to safe and inclusive fieldwork and increase positive, transformative field experiences.
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UAF to premiere Merit student achievement platform
July 12, 2022
UAF is launching a new online tool aimed at highlighting student achievements, such as earning a degree or being named to the deans' or chancellor's list.
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Teaching Tip: Create accessible content in Google Drive using Grackle Suite
July 11, 2022
It's good practice to scan your files for accessibility before sharing them with a course, website, or listserv. However, Google Drive products have no built-in accessibility checker like Microsoft Office programs do.
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Visits planned for CBSM dean candidates
July 08, 2022
Three candidates for dean of the College of Business and School of Management will have campus visits in late July.
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Hueffer to serve as interim CNSM dean
July 08, 2022
Provost Anupma Prakash has appointed Karsten Hueffer to serve as the interim dean of the College of Natural Science and Mathematics.
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Graduate student funding available for Fall 2022
July 06, 2022
The Fall 2022 Graduate Student Degree Completion Fellowship and Scholarship Application is now open for submissions. These awards are made on a competitive basis based on review of an applicants' Report of Advisory Committee and their degree completion timeline.
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Aurora: From AVÀÇÂÛ̳ to Ukraine, gene-sequencing professor chases viruses
July 06, 2022
Devin Drown and his lab team aid the effort to ID AVÀÇÂÛ̳’s coronavirus variants and keep health authorities updated on their spread.
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July 7 Music in the Garden moved to Davis Concert Hall
July 06, 2022
The UAF Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning concert series Music in the Garden will move to the Davis Concert Hall for July 7 due to the wildfire smoke in the Tanana Valley.
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Jennifer Tilbury appointed as Assistant Vice Provost of Student Success
July 06, 2022
Jennifer Tilbury has been appointed as Associate Vice Provost for Student Success, effective July 1, 2022. In her new role, she will work to develop and direct short and long range initiatives related to student success and retention, as well as lead efforts to launch the UAF Student Success Center that will be located in a renovated space on the sixth floor of the Rasmuson Library.
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