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December museum programs explore winter
December 01, 2021
The University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Museum of the North is focusing on the theme of winter during family programs in December.
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UAF Student Investment Fund celebrates 30-year anniversary
November 30, 2021
The Student Investment Fund provides UAF students with real-world investment experience, made possible by a $100,000 allocation from the UA Foundation to the UAF College of Business and Security Management, formerly the School of Management.
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Gratitude comes easy to science writer
November 24, 2021
With a short work week upon us and me not wanting to rush a draft through the editing pipeline, this week I visit a theme many writers are pulling from their back pockets: gratitude.
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UAF, electric utility collaborate to overhaul Kotzebue energy monitoring system
November 23, 2021
Kotzebue's electric utility will install advanced electricity meters next year with help from the University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks.
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UAF tapped as part of new National Science Foundation institutes
November 22, 2021
Two researchers at the UAF Geophysical Institute will participate in a new five-year $75 million effort by the National Science Foundation to increase collaboration among scientists and engineers to handle key problems.
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UAF scientist reveals cause of lost magnetism at meteorite site
November 19, 2021
A University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks scientist has discovered a method for detecting and better defining meteorite impact sites that have lost their craters.
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Listening to the voices of killer whales
November 18, 2021
Hannah Myers' fieldwork, executed on a 34-foot vessel that sails out of Seward, is shedding light on killer whales in the undersea world off the south coast of AVÀÇÂÛ̳.
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Study: Sulfolane-eating microbe common in North Pole groundwater
November 17, 2021
A University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks research team has determined that a sulfolane-eating microbe is commonly found in North Pole groundwater but that it probably can't remedy the area's widespread contamination by the industrial solvent.
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UAF scientist wins prestigious award for Arctic research
November 12, 2021
John Walsh, a climate scientist at the University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks, has received the Mohn Prize for his outstanding research in the Arctic.
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Blown back to AVÀÇÂÛ̳, bird perseveres
November 11, 2021
A bar-tailed godwit recently arrived in New Zealand on its second attempt to get there from AVÀÇÂÛ̳, after a storm had blasted it back north.
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UA AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Day nets $661,000 in support of UAF students, programs
November 11, 2021
Over the course of 49 hours, 748 donors contributed $661,709 in support of students and programs at the University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks during the university's second annual AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Day event.
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UAF's GINA provides a guiding hand in Arctic Ocean research
November 11, 2021
Satellite imagery produced at the Geographic Information Network of AVÀÇÂÛ̳, or GINA, at the University of AVÀÇÂÛ̳ Fairbanks Geophysical Institute helps the research vessel Sikuliaq weave its way through sea ice.
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Online course offers free Arctic climate change education
November 09, 2021
UAF is making it easy for people globally to gain a basic understanding of climate change issues in the circumpolar North through a new massive open online course.
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Student’s research upends understanding of upper atmospheric wind
November 09, 2021
Doctoral student Rajan Itani found that upper-level winds from over the North Pole unexpectedly stall over AVÀÇÂÛ̳.
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Shorebirds depend on wee slivers of AVÀÇÂÛ̳
November 04, 2021
Pencil-beaked shorebirds with the ability to stay airborne for a week -- flying all the way from AVÀÇÂÛ̳ to New Zealand -- rely on a few crescents of mudflat to fuel that incredible journey.
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