Camp energy presentation slated May 22
(UAF Cornerstone © 05/15/2013)
Cooperative Extension energy specialist Art Nash and Dave Messier [MESS-ee-er] of Tanana Chiefs Conference will discuss and demonstrate practical energy options for camps and other remote locations at a free public event May 22 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Activities will take place in Room 201 of the Reichardt Building on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus. They will cover solar cells, sma...

University of the Arctic report urges quick action on arctic policies
(UAF Cornerstone © 05/15/2013)
Arctic nations should move quickly to adopt shipping rules, improve safeguards against oil spills and create environmental and safety standards in polar waters, according to a new report released from the University of the Arctic?s Institute for Applied Circumpolar Policy. The report is the fifth produced by the IACP, a partnership among the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Dartmouth College and...

Community Day on Campus!
(UAS News Room © 05/15/2013)
Juneau, Alaska Date of Press Release: May 15, 2013 Saturday, May 18, 2013. 11:00 a.m. ? 4 p.m., University of Alaska Southeast Spike with kids at Community DayCommunity Day on Campus is a free festive day of music, exhibits, arts, food, information, and activities for the whole family in the Mourant Courtyard on the beautiful University of Alaska Southeast Auke Lake Campus. There will be...

Rachel Morse named assistant vice chancellor for alumni relations at UAA
(UAA Green & Gold News © 05/14/2013)
Vice Chancellor Megan Olson announced Monday that Rachel Morse, MBA ?08, has accepted the position of assistant vice chancellor for alumni relations at UAA. Rachel, who earned her master?s degree from UAA?s College of Business and Public Policy, has been serving as interim director for alumni relations at UAA since July 2012. During her tenure as interim director, Rachel helped guide UAA?s alumni...

CTC hosting Fairbanks Aviation Day events
(UAF Cornerstone © 05/14/2013)
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Community and Technical College will host the annual community event, Fairbanks Aviation Day, Saturday, May 18, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the UAF CTC aviation hangar at 3504 South University Avenue. Events start with a morning pancake feed fundraiser. Starting at 9 a.m., youths between the ages of 8 and 17 will be able to take a free flight in a small aircraft....

Olympian Matt Emmons addresses UAF graduates
(South Carolina Enquirer-Herald © 05/13/2013)
FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Olympic medalist Matt Emmons was this year's keynote speaker at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' commencement.The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://is.gd/DN3v5r) says Emmons addressed more than 600 students during graduation ceremonies Sunday at the Carlson Center, and gave them a lesson on the meaning of success and failure.Emmons earned the bronze medal in the three posi...

Voices of Alaskans: Winners of the 2013 UAA/ADN Creative Writing Contest
(Anchorage Daily News © 05/12/2013) (Registration Required)
A section of the Susitna River, north west of Talkeetna. (BOB HALLINEN / Anchorage Daily News) Submissions in this year's statewide Creative Writing Contest, sponsored by the University of Alaska Anchorage and the Anchorage Daily News, came from a wide range of Alaska towns, backgrounds and ages. Winners include Ed Craver, age 72, from Talkeetna; Maeva Ordaz, a 16-year-old student at West High S...

UAF joins with school in Mongolia
(Fairbanks Daily News-Miner © 05/12/2013)
FAIRBANKS ??" Mongolia and Alaska have a surprising amount in common ??" a cold climate, sparse population and abundance of natural resources. They also share a growing partnership, as the University of Alaska Fairbanks builds ties with the education and mining communities in the remote Asian country. The latest agreement includes a contract between UAF and the newly formed American University of...

UAF honors veteran engineer Zarling for decades of dedication
(Fairbanks Daily News-Miner © 05/11/2013)
The short stretch of Chena Hot Springs Road near Esro Road with the heat pipes sticking up on both sides is not quite as flat as a pool table, but it??(tm)s one spot where the road resists the overwhelming urge to buckle and bend. The 15-year-old pipes are one of the more visible research projects conducted by John Zarling, a veteran Alaska engineer who is to be honored by the University of Alask...

In Class of 2013, A.A. and nursing degrees are most popular
(UAA Green & Gold News © 05/08/2013)
A version of this story by Kathleen McCoy appeared in the Anchorage Daily News on May 4, 2013. Sunday?s UAA Commencement ceremony at the Sullivan Arena is the obvious pinnacle of an academic year and a personal achievement for graduates. Working totals for today are 2,315 graduates accepting 2,421 degrees. Those numbers become official at the end of May, when the last degree is confirmed. Si...

UAA graduates more Ph.D.s in clinical-community psychology with a rural indigenous emphasis
(UAA Green & Gold News © 05/08/2013)
For the second year in a row, UAA has graduated two doctoral candidates in clinical-community psychology with a rural indigenous emphasis. We talked with this year?s two newly minted Ph.D.s, (Ruth Zuniga and Tina Woods) and also caught up with a graduate from last year now working in Nome (Erin Johnson), and a graduate who will finish up this August (Rebecca Volino Robinson.) Here is a littl...

Crowdfunding fuels amphibian survey field work
(UAF Cornerstone © 05/08/2013)
A University of Alaska Fairbanks doctoral student is raising money through a crowdfunding website to complete fieldwork this summer that will enhance the herpetological collection at the University of Alaska Museum of the North and provide a better understanding of the amphibian population in the Stikine River watershed. Joshua Ream is working on an Interdisciplinary Studies doctoral degree usi...

New seismic modeling uses supercomputers to study earthquakes
(UAF Cornerstone © 05/08/2013)
Red and blue waves triggered by a magnitude 4.6 earthquake rippled outward from the Anchorage area and fizzled out after 45 seconds. Except in Cook Inlet basin, where the waves were trapped for another half-minute, bouncing back and forth, up and down, within the 7.5-kilometer-thick sedimentary basin. ?It?s like throwing a rock in the pond. Except water is a homogeneous material. In the solid e...

PSU engineering students build, float and compete
(Portland Daily Vanguard © 05/07/2013)
A large group of civil and environmental engineering students from Portland State headed down to Corvallis, equipment in tow, to compete in the 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers Pacific Northwest Division Conference on Saturday. Out of 17 universities from around the Pacific Northwest, PSU placed 10th. The University of Alaska Fairbanks received first place and Washington State University ...

UAF professors to help create Mongolian engineering school
(UAF Cornerstone © 05/07/2013)
A team of professors from the University of Alaska Fairbanks will spend the next several years working with the newly formed American University of Mongolia to create an engineering school. UAF recently signed contract with AUM, which is under development in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. Under the terms of the contract, a team of seven engineering professors, led by mining and g...

University honors 2013 Usibelli Award recipients
(UAF Cornerstone © 05/07/2013)
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced recipients of the 2013 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Public Service Awards. Jonathan Rosenberg, professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts, received the teaching award; Jeffrey Freymueller, professor of geophysics at the UAF Geophysical Institute and College of Natural Science and Mathematics, received the...

Northrip urges 2013 UAS graduates to hear their music
(KTOO News © 05/06/2013)
By Casey Kelly Posted on May 6, 2013 at 5:42 am The University of Alaska Southeast held commencement ceremonies at its three campuses in Sitka, Ketchikan and Juneau over the weekend. At the Juneau campus on Sunday, Chancellor John Pugh said UAS would award nearly 700 degrees, certificates and occupational endorsements in 2013. He said the regional university model benefits communities through...

2013 UAS Faculty Excellence Awards
(Juneau Empire © 05/05/2013)
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST Four University of Alaska Southeast faculty members are being recognized for outstanding work in the areas of Teaching, Faculty Advising, Service and Adjunct Instruction. 2013 Faculty Excellence awards go to Assistant Professor of Marine Biology Carolyn Bergstrom, Associate Professor of GIS and Landscape Ecology Sanjay Pyare, Assistant Professor of Accounting Vick...

Pssst: Got a secret? UAF students put them on display
(Fairbanks Daily News-Miner © 05/02/2013)
FAIRBANKS -A project spearheaded by five students at the University of Alaska Fairbanks resulted in the display of some deeply held secrets. The University of Alaska Fairbanks Post Secret project is an effort by the students in a psychology in action class to reduce stigma associated with seeking help and to inform students and the Fairbanks community about the mental health resources that are a...

ANSEP named one of the ?Top 25 Innovations in Government?
(UAA Green & Gold News © 05/02/2013)
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, announced that Alaska?s Native Science & Engineering Program (ANSEP) is among the ?Top 25 Innovations in American Government? for its positive impact on the next generation workforce. The ?Top 25? represent the dedicated efforts of city, state, federal and tribal governments,...

Alaska Middle College School celebration is May 2
(The Frontiersman © 04/30/2013)
A ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating a successful first academic year for the Alaska Middle College School is from 10 to 11:30 a.m., May 2 at the Chugiak-Eagle River Campus, 10928 Eagle River Rd., Eagle River. The ceremony also recognizes the upcoming anniversary of the agreement establishing a partnership between University of Alaska Anchorage and the Mat-Su Borough School District. PeopleMo...