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Skip to content Search for: UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS UAF news and information News Latest news Campus Public Information Officers Events Employees Students Nanooks in the news Aurora Current issue Aurora archives About Aurora Grapevine Latest Grapevine Grapevine archives Experts guide Submission Ray Troll exhibit opens in museum collections gallery A new exhibit at the University of Alaska Museum of the North features paintings by Ray Troll and sculptures by Gary Staab as part of the traveling exhibition, “Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline.” Read more Rocket on the chilled rail at Poker Flat Inspiring Girls program seeks applicants for wilderness expeditions Space Week features rocket launch window and NASA experts Podcast uses science to answer hunting questions News Ray Troll exhibit opens in museum collections gallery January 24, 2020 A new exhibit at the University of Alaska Museum of the North features paintings by Ray Troll and sculptures by Gary Staab as part of the traveling exhibition, “Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline.” Continue reading Rocket on the chilled rail at Poker Flat January 23, 2020 In cold, dry, sub-Arctic air, a rocket taller than a house tilts northward, awaiting the moment when a person inside a nearby concrete building pushes a button. The ink-black Chatanika River valley will then flash white and erupt with a clap of thunder. A slender NASA vehicle will shoot skyward, carrying a sensitive instrument in an arc 160 miles above northern Alaska. Continue reading Inspiring Girls program seeks applicants for wilderness expeditions January 23, 2020 Inspiring Girls Expeditions is accepting applications for 2020 summer expeditions. Young women interested in joining the tuition-free wilderness science education programs should start their applications by Jan. 31. Continue reading Space Week features rocket launch window and NASA experts January 22, 2020 An unofficial Space Week, filled with space science events, rocket launch preparations and presentations by NASA guests, will blast off in Fairbanks and North Pole on Saturday, Jan. 25. Continue reading 28th annual Science for Alaska Lecture Series announced January 22, 2020 The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute will host free public talks on topics ranging from the aurora to permafrost to the 2018 earthquake in Anchorage. The 2020 Science for Alaska Lecture Series begins Tuesday, Jan. 28, and runs through March 3. Talks start at 7 p.m. every Tuesday at Raven Landing Center. Continue reading Podcast uses science to answer hunting questions January 21, 2020 Moose hunters who ask questions such as “Why does a cow call sometimes work better than a bull call?” might find answers in a new podcast. “Hunting Science,” created by UAF professor of wildlife ecology Mark Lindberg, uses science to answer questions about hunting. Continue reading UAF, Fairbanks school district launch middle college January 17, 2020 UAF and the school district have created North Star College, a middle college program that will allow students to complete high school with up to two years of college credit, tuition-free. Continue reading Free radon test kits available during January January 16, 2020 January is National Radon Action Month, and free radon test kits are available during the month. Continue reading Denali Park Road failings and other stories January 16, 2020 By summer 2020, a landslide will bury a portion of the road from the Denali National Park entrance to Wonder Lake. That’s the conclusion of Zena Robert, a UAF graduate student who visited the park in summer 2019. Continue reading Tritt-Frank, McCarthy honored with UAF alumni awards January 15, 2020 The University of Alaska Fairbanks Alumni association has named its 2020 award recipients. Educator and linguist Caroline Tritt-Frank is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Paul H. McCarthy, a longtime university supporter and retired UAF administrator, is the winner of the William R. Cashen Service Award. Continue reading UAF’s online bachelor’s degrees rank among top 100 January 14, 2020 The University of Alaska Fairbanks’ online bachelor’s degree programs have been ranked among the top 100 by U.S. News & World Report. Continue reading Northern news from a massive conference January 9, 2020 For the 20th straight year, in December 2019 I carried a notebook into the halls of the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Here are a few scribbles from my notebook on a subsample of the more than 1,000 Alaska talks and posters. Continue reading Press registration open for One Health, One Future meeting January 7, 2020 Press registration is now open for the One Health, One Future international meeting, scheduled for March 11-14, 2020, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The meeting, hosted in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, is expected to be the largest circumpolar One Health conference in the U.S. in 2020. One Health is a research […] Continue reading The physics of 40 below January 2, 2020 A father wakes, rolls out of bed, and drops his toes to cold carpet. He grabs a flashlight and shines it outside the window. The thermometer reads 40 below zero, the only point at which the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales agree. The red liquid within his thermometer is alcohol; mercury freezes at 38 below. Continue reading Alaska blackfish in a world of its own January 2, 2020 North of the village of Hughes, in frigid, sluggish water, dim blue light penetrates two feet of lake ice. The ice has a quarter-size hole, maintained by a stream of methane bubbles. Every few minutes, a brutish little fish swims up, turns to sip air, and peels back to the dank. Continue reading View more news Events Food safety training offered around Alaska February 18, 2020 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | Fairbanks, Glennallen, Tok, Palmer, Juneau, Sitka, Skagway, Unlaska and other communities as requested. Food safety management training will take place by videoconference Feb. 18 in eight Alaska communities. Continue reading ‘Sunny With a Chance of Space Storms’ (Science for Alaska Lecture Series) January 28, 2020 7-8 p.m. | Raven Landing, 1222 Cowles St. On Jan. 28, C. Alex Young will present “Sunny With a Chance of Space Storms.” The talk is part of the 2020 Science for Alaska Lecture Series, sponsored by the Geophysical Institute and presented Tuesdays from 7-8 p.m. at Raven Landing, 1222 Cowles St. Continue reading North Star College informational event scheduled Jan. 30 January 30, 2020 6-8 p.m. | UAF Engineering Building - Rooms 301 and 305 The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host a North Star College informational event for students and parents on Thursday, Jan. 30, from 6-8 p.m. in Rooms 301 and 305 of the Engineering Learning and Innovation Facility on the Fairbanks campus. Continue reading Tickets available for UAF Business Leader of Year event April 18, 2020 – April 18, 2020 6 p.m. | Westmark Hotel Gold Room Tickets are on sale for the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Management’s 44th Business Leader of the Year dinner and award ceremony. The 2020 event is scheduled for 6 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at the Westmark Fairbanks Hotel’s Gold Room and will honor Joe Usibelli Jr., president of Usibelli Coal Mine. Continue reading Pesticide applicator training scheduled January 28, 2020 – January 30, 2020 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Fairbanks, Delta Junction, Anchorage, Soldotna and other communities as requested The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will offer three-day pesticide applicator certification training Jan. 28-30 in several Alaska communities. Continue reading Women in Agriculture Conference registration opens January 25, 2020 7 a.m-2:30 p.m. in Palmer, Anchorage and Soldotna and 7:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in Fairbanks and Homer | Room 103-105, UAF Margaret Murie Building in Fairbanks; Matanuska Experiment Farm and Extension Center, Palmer; Loussac Library, Anchorage; Kenai River Center, Soldotna; and Kachemak Bay C...