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Webinar to discuss role of mycorrhizae in soil health
September 11, 2024
Learn about mycorrhizae and their role in creating a healthy soil environment for plants in a free webinar at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18. Caley Gasch, research assistant professor of soil science at the Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center in Palmer, will shepherd participants through the world of mycorrhizal fungi.
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Webinar to discuss growing and preparing garlic
September 10, 2024
Learn to grow garlic and to cook the flavorful vegetable in new ways during a free webinar led by Heidi Rader.
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UAF to host grand opening for Student Success Center Sept. 18
September 09, 2024
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will host a grand opening for its new Student Success Center on the sixth floor of the Rasmuson Library on Wednesday, Sept. 18. The event is free and open to the public.
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September museum programs explore sketching
September 06, 2024
The University of Alaska Museum of the North will focus on sketching during family programs in September.
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UAF names summer 2024 honors students
September 05, 2024
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has announced the students named to the deans' and chancellor's lists for the summer 2024 semester. The lists recognize students' outstanding academic achievements.
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Why is that caterpillar looking at me?
September 05, 2024
On a trip to Quartz Lake, visitor to Alaska Garrett Ast once plucked a caterpillar from a twig. As Garrett held it in his palm, the caterpillar reared up and -- with two sparkling baby blues -- looked him right in the eye.
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New research has implications for Fairbanks winter air quality improvement
September 04, 2024
Work led by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers shows that the effort to improve Fairbanks' wintertime air quality by reducing the amount of primary sulfate in the atmosphere may not be as effective as intended in the deep cold.
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The lost world of northern dinosaurs
August 30, 2024
On a recent river trip in northern Alaska, scientists from the University of Alaska Museum of the North found a lost world, a time of "polar forests with reptiles running around in them."
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LARS to host Sept. 7 event for local residents
August 30, 2024
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Large Animal Research Station will close out the summer tour season with a special event for local residents on Saturday, Sept. 7. The event will include tours and a sale in the gift shop, with everything discounted 15%.
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Fairbanks Experiment Farm, Georgeson staff begin weeding out chokecherries
August 30, 2024
On Monday, another step was taken in the long process of weeding out popular but invasive chokecherry trees on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Troth Yeddha' ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. Seven chokecherry trees (Prunus padus and Prunus virginiana) were removed from Georgeson Botanical Garden and the Fairbanks Experiment Farm, including a tree planted in 1993 in honor of Arbor Day.
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UAF scientist's method could give months' warning of major earthquakes
August 29, 2024
The public could have days or months of warning about a major earthquake through identification of prior low-level tectonic unrest over large areas, according to research by a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø scientist who analyzed two major quakes in Alaska and California.
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Make a pudding cup, learn about soils in Anchorage program
August 29, 2024
Youths can learn about soil science -- and play with their food -- in a fun, hands-on workshop with 4-H and the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Cooperative Extension Service.
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UAF launches energy resource engineering degree program
August 27, 2024
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø of Engineering and Mines has launched its new energy resource engineering baccalaureate program. Students can enroll in this forward-thinking field of study starting in fall 2024.
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UAF scientists help keep record of global and Arctic climate
August 27, 2024
For the fourth consecutive year, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø scientist Rick Thoman served as an editor of an annual federal report summarizing the world's climate.
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The galloping glacier's recent dramas
August 23, 2024
In 1937, what scientists call a "surging" glacier was rumbling across the valley toward a roadhouse along a major Alaska highway. That mountain of ice advanced upon the log structure at more than 100 feet each day.
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