University of Alaska Fairbanks

A total of six "Goldie" awards were presented to Student Media's KSUA 91.5FM College Radio, the student-powered radio station of UAF's Center for Student Engagement. Various UAF students and faculty received recognition for their hard work, winnin...

Two University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate students have been selected to receive 2023-24 Climate Change Project Awards from the Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity. Logan Niemann, a fisheries and fire science major, received the award for his project entitled "Microplastics in Stomach Contents and Tissues of Subsistence Harvested Bowhead Whales." Jessie Skalisky, wildlife biology and conservation major, was selected for her project, "Invasive Plant Seedbank Development after Wildfire in Alaska's Boreal Forest."

University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student Kit Cunningham has been selected for the 2024 Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program, one of the most prestigious marine policy fellowships in the country. Cunningham was chosen after being nominated for the position by Alaska Sea Grant.

Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have confirmed that salmon are spawning in an Arctic Ocean watershed, an unprecedented finding that indicates at least some salmon species could be expanding to new territory as climate change reshapes their habitat.

Thirty students graduated Aug. 18 from the 2023 Summer Fire Academy operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Community and Technical College.

Two undergraduate students in the College of Rural and Community Development, Alicia Smoke and Dante Burk, have been awarded summer internships in linguistics at the University of Oregon.

Seven University of Alaska Fairbanks students will set sail on the research vessel Sikuliaq in August to study the plants, animals and humans that inhabited the Bering Land Bridge during the last ice age.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks honored the Class of 2023 during its 101st commencement ceremony on May 6 at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks. The university's first commencement took place in 1923 when the sole graduate, John Sexton Shanly, received a bachelor's degree in agriculture. This year, UAF conferred approximately 1029 degrees on 956 students. Some students received more than one degree. The ceremony included graduates from summer and fall 2022 and spring 2023.

Research by several University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute scientists was presented at the 2023 meeting of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria.

Six graduate students were announced as the third cohort of fellows in the Tamamta program, which centers on bridging Indigenous and Western sciences to transform graduate education and research in fisheries and marine sciences.

Brazil's Mato Grosso region is that nation's leading producer of livestock and grains. It is also a region of extensive land cover change.

A University of Alaska Fairbanks master's student's work collects reports of warming temperatures, changing wind patterns, eroding coastlines and shifting sea ice across Arctic Alaska.