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Addressing employee performance issues in a supportive way
August 11, 2025
Join an online training session on Sept. 11 that offers tools for engaging in supportive conversations that address employee performance issues.
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Try something new this fall with Nanook Recreation
August 11, 2025
Registration is now open for a beginner-friendly strength training program. The six-week fitness class starts Tuesday, Sept. 2, and is free for Nanook Recreation members. Space is limited.
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URSA announces AY2025-2026 Mentor Award recipients
August 08, 2025
The Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity congratulates the individuals who received an URSA AY2025-2026 Mentor Award.
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URSA announces Fall 2025 Student Project Award recipients
August 08, 2025
The Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity congratulates the individuals who received an URSA Fall 2025 Student Project Award.
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Wanted: Research news and events
August 08, 2025
Calling all UAF research storytellers! The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research is gathering research-related news, events, funding opportunities, publication announcements, thesis defenses, and more to feature in our weekly newsletter, calendar, and across the UAF Research website.
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Friday Focus: Fresh perspectives - The upside to leadership change
August 08, 2025
Before stepping into this role, I spent much of my career diagnosing problems, solving them, and helping others do the same. My path into academic leadership wasnt exactly traditional, but Ive come to see how valuable that kind of practical experience can be. With leadership experience in both the private sector and university, what Im most thankful for is what years of problem-solving have taught me: the ability to ask the basic troubleshooting questions needed to fix things, mechanical or otherwise.
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Students plan their future role in Alaska
August 08, 2025
The UAF T3 Alaska and Upward Bound programs have teamed up once again to help high school students from across Alaska prepare for life after graduation. Through the Your Future Role in Alaska summer session, students learned to build a personalized plan to match their career interest to their values.
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Recognize your student workers; sign up for Student Job Fair
August 06, 2025
Attention all student employee supervisors: UAF Career Services is recognizing outstanding student employees across campus beginning in September. If you need student employees, reserve your spot for the Student Job Fair on Sept. 2 from noon to 3 p.m. at the Wood Center.
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Staff Alliance offers professional development support
August 06, 2025
Staff Alliance is offering support for staff professional development activities that directly support their professional development in FY26.
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Volunteers needed: First-year student move-in
August 04, 2025
Get ready to roll out the blue and gold carpet for our incoming first-year students! First-Year Move-In will be on Thursday, Aug. 21. This is a fantastic opportunity to welcome new students and their families to the campus community and help them settle into their new home away from home.
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Staff Alliance offers fall 2025 semester tuition fee support
August 01, 2025
The UA Staff Alliance is pleased to once again offer a class fee scholarship for UA classes taken by staff that directly support their career or professional development. The scholarship, good for the 2025 fall semester, is for up to $250 per employee.
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Friday Focus: Opportunity in partnerships
August 01, 2025
In my last Friday Focus, I wrote about the ways that research is a public good. This week, I have been reflecting on the important role of partnerships in growing and sustaining this good work -- especially in the face of federal uncertainties.
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Help Party in the Park reach 200 booths
August 01, 2025
It's a party and everyone's invited! UAF's annual Party in the Park will take place on Thursday, Aug. 28, from noon to 3 p.m. in Constitution Park. This lively outdoor event is a campus-wide celebration to kick off the fall semester and welcome new and returning students to the Nanook community.
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Shotgun firearm training, certification
July 28, 2025
Field researchers requiring a shotgun certification have another opportunity to satisfy the training this summer on Aug. 18.
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Fall semester orientation bag item collection
July 28, 2025
New Student Orientation is officially one month away! The Center for Student Engagement will collect items for new student bags until Aug. 13. CSE will be building around 600 bags, so please provide enough for every bag.
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Friday Focus: Parting thoughts
July 25, 2025
In my last Friday Focus, I shared that I would be retiring at the end of July. Well, that time has come! In that last Friday Focus I expressed my confidence in the UAF leadership team to navigate the challenges and opportunities ahead. My confidence in UAF has only grown as each of UAF's core leaders has stepped up to embrace the change. Thank you my friends!
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Discover mushrooms with UAF Summer Sessions
July 24, 2025
There are a few spaces still available in a weekend intensive Introduction to Mycology non-credit course for adults, taught by Christin Swearingen, from Aug. 15-17.
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Tuition waivers streamlined for employees and full-time faculty
July 21, 2025
The Office of the Bursar staff is excited to share an update that makes accessing educational benefits easier for our employees and full-time faculty.
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July 21, 2025
Thank you for an awesome Summer Ice Cream Thursday season. Attendance on July 17 was just over 350 people eating ice cream in the sun, having fun and helping create community. The CSE staff would love to see Ice Cream Thursday hit over 400!
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Plastic Free July: Fishermen take action for cleaner coasts
July 21, 2025
Alaska Sea Grant is partnering with coastal communities to reduce discarded plastics and other marine debris from Alaska shorelines through the Community-Led Marine Debris Removal program.
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Friday Focus: Phil Collins is right
July 18, 2025
In 1981, Phil Collins topped the pop music charts with In the Air Tonight. As a UAF employee and father of three teenage boys, I can tell you that Phil is right, there is something in the air in Fairbanks. It's not smoke (thank goodness); it's back to school, and it's right around the corner. As the UAF executive director of advancement, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a bit about what I hear from business leaders throughout Alaska on the topic of higher education.
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New bench on Wildfire Walk trail
July 18, 2025
The UAF North 窪蹋勛圖厙 has a new bench, thanks to Uma Bhatt and David Newman. The bench is located on the Wildfire Walk trail, approximately halfway through the interpretive signs area in the burn scar of the 2021 Yankovich Road Fire site.
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Lisa Allen joins UAF as Office of Grants and Contracts Administration director
July 18, 2025
The Financial and Business Services team welcomes Lisa Allen as the new director of the Office of Grants and Contracts Administration at the 窪蹋勛圖厙. She began her role on June 30 and is located in Room 105D of the Butrovich Building.
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UAOnline upgrade demos for faculty, advisors
July 16, 2025
On July 28, the Faculty and Advisor menu and pages in UAOnline will be upgraded to the newest version. To help with the transition, demos will be presented via Zoom on the new features.
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UAF critical minerals proposal advances in federal funding competition
July 16, 2025
A 窪蹋勛圖厙 proposal to reduce the United States' dependency on foreign sources of minerals critical to the technology and defense industries has been named a semifinalist in a National Science Foundation competition.
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