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Insects of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ forest humming along
June 21, 2024
Recent long-term studies revealed a three-quarters reduction of insects in parts of Germany and an 80 percent decline of pollinating flies at a field site in Greenland. What's going on with numbers of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ insects?
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Week's events: Greg Hill, gut health, native plants, klezmer
June 21, 2024
University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks 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 24-30.
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Campus road, lot closures planned for Midnight Sun Run
June 20, 2024
The Midnight Sun Run will begin at the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks at 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 22. The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Police Department will close parts of campus to vehicle access before the race.
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Bishop appointed dean of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Community and Technical College
June 20, 2024
Carl Bishop has been appointed dean of the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Community and Technical College.
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Health, food preservation workshops planned for Southeast ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ
June 19, 2024
A University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service agent will travel by boat to nine communities in Southeast ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ to teach classes on healthy living, food safety and food preservation.
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Researchers use AI to track global squirrel hot spots
June 17, 2024
A team of University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks researchers used novel artificial intelligence and citizen science methods to validate locations of large and small populations of the more than 300 species of squirrels globally.
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Journey through a sub-Arctic summer night
June 14, 2024
We three friends riding together in a pickup had committed to join together for the AlaskAcross, a 50-mile jaunt on foot from Eagle Summit to the Chena Hot Springs Resort.
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Registration open for 4-H Cloverbud Day Camp
June 14, 2024
The Tanana District 4-H program will host Cloverbud Day Camp at Georgeson Botanical Garden, located on the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks campus.
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Week's events: Samantha Kirstein, BEFAST, wild berries, marimbas
June 14, 2024
University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks 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 17-23.
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Visualizing the landscape of tribal communities
June 13, 2024
The University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks has released a set of resources to help researchers and academics working in rural ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ understand the complexities of tribal communities.
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ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ scientists heading to international permafrost conference
June 13, 2024
ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ 20 University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks scientists will present research at the quadrennial International Conference on Permafrost, which opens Saturday in Whitehorse, Yukon.
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ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ research scientist selected as Fulbright Scholar to Finland
June 12, 2024
Eugénie Euskirchen, associate professor of ecology at the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to Finland.
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Lasers may keep birds out of Fairbanks grain plots
June 12, 2024
The resonant, musical rattle of the sandhill crane in May signifies spring for many of us. But the birds can pose a problem for farms. This summer, a green laser beam has been flashing across the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks’ farm fields to scare off the cranes and other birds.
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New way to spot beetle-killed spruce can help forest, wildfire managers
June 12, 2024
A new machine-learning system developed at the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, even in forests of low and moderate infestation where identification is otherwise difficult.
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New research shows flood risk for several ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ communities
June 10, 2024
Coastal ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta northward will see more of their buildings exposed to flooding by 2100 if they continue developing at the same location, according to new research.
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