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  • A river runs toward mountains that are silhouetted by the sun and clouds

    Five-day 4-H camp in Haines features outdoor activities, fair

    May 29, 2026

    A five-day residential 4-H camp in Southeast Alaska features outdoor activities and a day at the Southeast Alaska State Fair. The camp, which is open to youths 11-18 years old, will be held July 20-24 at the Echo Ranch facility in Haines across from Rainbow Glacier. Campers will stay in rustic cabins and have opportunities to swim, hike, zipline, kayak, forage, fish and learn outdoor skills such as building shelters and starting and cooking on campfires.

  • Under a blue sky, blocks of jumbled ice fill a river bank to bank. Driftwood — stumps and logs — lie on the near shore, which is covered with dead grasses.

    Research team seeks answers from a changing river

    May 29, 2026

    Dan Gillikin surveyed the view from his front window and didn't like what he saw.

  • A UAF Large Animal Research Station staff member feeds leafy greens to a muskox through a wire fence as a group of visitors, including young children, watch from behind a rope barrier, at the 2025 LARS Birthday Bash.

    LARS to host Birthday Bash June 6

    May 27, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø' Large Animal Research Station will host its annual Birthday Bash on Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free event is open to everyone and will include animal viewing and family-friendly activities. LARS staff will be on site to educate guests about the animals and answer questions.

  • Visitors on the Geophysical Institute summer tour will learn about the large blue satellite antenna atop the Elvey Building and the sounding rocket installation displayed on the lawn outside. The photo shows the rocket model rising in the foreground in front of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Geophysical Institute building under a partly cloudy sky.

    Geophysical Institute, Poker Flat Research Range announce summer tours

    May 26, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Geophysical Institute is offering free public tours this summer to showcase some of its science facilities. Two different guided tours are available. One consists of a visit to four sites in the Geophysical Institute home base in the Elvey Building on UAF's Troth Yeddha' ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. The other is an outdoor walking tour at Poker Flat Research Range, located at Mile 30 Steese Highway.

  • Two people sit at a table on a stage. They are holding up binders with papers in them. Five people are standing behind them against a backdrop that says

    UAF, National Laboratory of the Rockies extend partnership

    May 23, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has signed a new five-year partnership plan with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratory of the Rockies.

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  • A river runs toward mountains that are silhouetted by the sun and clouds

    Five-day 4-H camp in Haines features outdoor activities, fair

    May 29, 2026

    A five-day residential 4-H camp in Southeast Alaska features outdoor activities and a day at the Southeast Alaska State Fair. The camp, which is open to youths 11-18 years old, will be held July 20-24 at the Echo Ranch facility in Haines across from Rainbow Glacier. Campers will stay in rustic cabins and have opportunities to swim, hike, zipline, kayak, forage, fish and learn outdoor skills such as building shelters and starting and cooking on campfires.

  • Week's events: Legacy Lecture, brain and sound, tribal libraries, jazz

    May 29, 2026

    ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 1-7.

  • Under a blue sky, blocks of jumbled ice fill a river bank to bank. Driftwood — stumps and logs — lie on the near shore, which is covered with dead grasses.

    Research team seeks answers from a changing river

    May 28, 2026

    Dan Gillikin surveyed the view from his front window and didn't like what he saw.

  • A UAF Large Animal Research Station staff member feeds leafy greens to a muskox through a wire fence as a group of visitors, including young children, watch from behind a rope barrier, at the 2025 LARS Birthday Bash.

    LARS to host Birthday Bash June 6

    May 27, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø' Large Animal Research Station will host its annual Birthday Bash on Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The free event is open to everyone and will include animal viewing and family-friendly activities. LARS staff will be on site to educate guests about the animals and answer questions.

  • Visitors on the Geophysical Institute summer tour will learn about the large blue satellite antenna atop the Elvey Building and the sounding rocket installation displayed on the lawn outside. The photo shows the rocket model rising in the foreground in front of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Geophysical Institute building under a partly cloudy sky.

    Geophysical Institute, Poker Flat Research Range announce summer tours

    May 26, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Geophysical Institute is offering free public tours this summer to showcase some of its science facilities. Two different guided tours are available. One consists of a visit to four sites in the Geophysical Institute home base in the Elvey Building on UAF's Troth Yeddha' ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. The other is an outdoor walking tour at Poker Flat Research Range, located at Mile 30 Steese Highway.

  • 2026 Tall Timbers interview series begins June 8

    May 26, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will launch the 2026 Fairbanks Tall Timbers interview series on June 8. The nine-week series is presented by UAF Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning and honors people with longtime service to the Fairbanks community.

  • Two people sit at a table on a stage. They are holding up binders with papers in them. Five people are standing behind them against a backdrop that says

    UAF, National Laboratory of the Rockies extend partnership

    May 22, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has signed a new five-year partnership plan with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratory of the Rockies.

  • Two arcticola dunlin walk across a patch of lingering snow near a road in UtqiaÄ¡vik, Alaska, in June 2021. The small shorebirds have mottled brown backs, pale faces and black bellies, and are shown in profile against a soft, snowy background.

    Alaska shorebird suffering from troubled Asia winter grounds

    May 22, 2026

    The population of a plump northern Alaska shorebird weighing just over 2 ounces has been declining for decades. Reversing that decline will require additional conservation efforts at some of the birds' East Asia wintering grounds, according to new research.

  • 2026 Discover Alaska lecture series starts June 3

    May 22, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will host the Discover Alaska lecture series starting on June 3. The 2026 series is presented by UAF Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning in cooperation with the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library.

  • A man with glasses and a mustache stands in front of a green chalkboard with scrawled diagrams.

    Mind-bending science for this science layman

    May 21, 2026

    In my daily "science class," I am always the student hoping for a passing grade from the scientist whose work I'm writing about.

  • 2026 Healthy Living lecture series begins June 2

    May 21, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will host the Healthy Living lecture series starting on June 2. The free series offers a variety of presentations by Alaska medical specialists and experts.

  • A grain silo is next to a group of red-painted agriculture processing buildings

    2026 crop science conference set at UAF in June

    May 21, 2026

    The 2026 Western Society of Crop Science annual conference will be held in Fairbanks on June 23-24. The conference will take place at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. It will bring together plant science students, faculty and researchers from public and private institutions across a broad geographic region of North America.

  • Portrait of Leonard Kamerling

    2026 Legacy Lecture to feature Leonard Kamerling

    May 20, 2026

    The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 2026 Legacy Lecture will honor Leonard Kamerling at 7 p.m. Monday, June 1, in the auditorium at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.

  • A group of students walk across a bridge at Toolik Field Station with their reflections in the pond below them.

    UAF Toolik Field Station open for Visitor's Day

    May 19, 2026

    Toolik Field Station will host a Visitor's Day on Saturday, June 6, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

  • Study: Tiny rodent-like mammals outlasted Arctic dinosaurs

    May 18, 2026

    More than 70 million years ago, the Arctic was a lively place for some of Earth's ancient mammals. Today, their fossil teeth are offering clues about where they came from and how they outlived the dinosaurs.

  • Alaska climate report: April brought sharp ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø swings

    May 18, 2026

    April was a month of meteorological change in Alaska, as expected each year. What stood out this time, however, was the wide range of conditions during those changes.

  • A black and white dog sniffs the ground near a red-capped Amanita muscaria mushroom with white spots growing amongst fireweed, horsetail and dwarf dogwoods, with a smaller immature Amanita emerging beside it.

    Time Capsule: The world according to a dog's nose

    May 15, 2026

    When a Lab vacuums the ground with her nose and her tail moves like a helicopter blade, you know a grouse is about to fly. When the dog stops like a dragonfly, then runs off sniffing an invisible path, a snowshoe hare has crossed your trail.

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2025 winter Aurora Magazine cover

From left, Peyton Platter, Kyle Gaffney and Matt Hubbarde skate onto the ice at the Carlson Center during opening lineup introductions at the Governor’s Cup game on Jan. 31, 2025.

In the trenches: 100 years of Alaska hockey
Planetarium construction continues at the west side of the University of Alaska Museum of the North on UAF’s Troth Yeddha’ ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in Fairbanks in August 2025. Photo by Bryan Whitten.

Coming soon: Out-of-this-world experience at new UAF planetarium
Jay Ramras, owner of Pike's Waterfront Lodge, speaks at the Boots and Books Scholarship Dinner on Oct. 23, 2025. UAF photo by Eric Engman.

Fire at Pike’s Landing sparks legacy of scholarship support
GeoFORCE Alaska’s fourth cohort — 31 high school students, 11 staff members, a bus driver and one mentor from Doyon Ltd. — gather at Desert View Lookout in Grand Canyon National Park on June 10, 2025.

Connecting Alaska’s rural students with geosciences
ACEP 2025 summer interns gather by Golden Valley Electric Association’s solar farm after touring the nearby battery energy storage system.

Transforming Alaska’s energy future