• Green and yellow lettuce, orange nasturtiums and squash grow in a high tunnel with wooden supports

    Petersburg youths can learn to cook garden-fresh dishes

    August 06, 2025

    Middle and high school students are invited to a free Cooking (in) the Garden series at the Petersburg School and Community Garden. Students will make various savory and sweet recipes using items harvested directly from the garden and greenhouse.
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  • Projected warning times from Sand Point earthquake

    Research shows early quake warning system could provide critical seconds

    August 05, 2025

    A proposed earthquake early warning system could have provided several ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ communities an alert of 10 seconds or more ahead of strong shaking from the magnitude 7.3 quake that occurred south of Sand Point near the tip of the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Peninsula in mid-July.
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  • A woman shows an sample of an insect in a tube next to a microscope.

    NextGen students to give overview of summer internships

    August 04, 2025

    This summer, 14 University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks students participated in the NextGen Internship Program, which is designed to introduce students to food and agricultural careers. Learn about their experiences during a free statewide webinar hosted by the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Cooperative Extension Service on Wednesday, Aug. 13, from 4-6 p.m.
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  • A string of shiny black berries, black currants, on a bush

    Currants, once banned, are having a revival

    August 01, 2025

    Currants were banned in the United States for 55 years, but are now an emerging berry crop around the country, including ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. Join Lily Hislop, the currant and elderberry breeder for the Savanna Institute, in a free webinar as she explains why currants were banned, how that ban was lifted and the berries' future.
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  • Week's events: Nicky Eiseman, daily exercise, Indigenizing research, jazz

    August 01, 2025

    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 Aug. 4-10.
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  • A small caterpillar leaves a long, winding trail as it feeds on an aspen leaf.

    The war within the aspen leaves

    August 01, 2025

    On one of the friendliest platforms imaginable, a ferocious battle rages. While mowing its way through the surface of a trembling leaf, an aspen leaf miner meets one of its kind. Instead of offering a nuzzle of recognition, the tiny caterpillar tears into the other with its sickle-like mouthparts, while trying to avoid a fatal gash from the other.
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  • NISAR launch

    ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ satellite facility to manage massive NASA data surge

    July 31, 2025

    Years of preparation by the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Satellite Facility will ensure that a flood of freely available data from a NASA-India satellite mission that launched Wednesday will be easy for the global public to use.
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  • Policy brief proposes changes to Yukon River salmon management

    July 30, 2025

    A group of Indigenous leaders, scientists and policy experts have proposed management actions to promote recovery of Yukon River salmon and manage their harvest more equitably.
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  • An apple, strawberries and rhubarb are laid out on a counter with canning jars and canning equipment

    Webinar covers the basic methods of food preservation

    July 28, 2025

    Get the most out of the food you have grown, harvested or bought during a free one-hour overview of food preservation methods. Attendees will learn how to extend the life of their food using a variety of preservation methods, including refrigeration, root cellars, pickling, fermenting, making jams and jellies, dehydrating, boiling water canning and pressure canning.
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  • Nook, the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ polar bear mascot, poses wearing a blue and gold hockey jersey in front of a ferris wheel at the fair.

    ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Day at the fair scheduled for July 29

    July 25, 2025

    The University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks will host ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Day at the Tanana Valley State Fair on Tuesday, July 29. ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ employees, students, alumni and friends will receive $1 off admission by wearing ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ apparel or showing their PolarExpress card. The day will include ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ activities throughout the fairgrounds.
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  • Week's events: Stan Justice, starving cancer, Dene astronomy, bagpipes

    July 25, 2025

    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 July 28-Aug. 3.
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  • A sea otter floats on the surface while foraging in Jakalof Bay.

    Kachemak Bay otters' behavior seems unaffected by oyster farms

    July 25, 2025

    The growing Kachemak Bay mariculture industry and a booming population of local sea otters appear to have a surprisingly uneventful relationship, according to a new University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks study. The study, published recently in The Journal of Wildlife Management, focused on otters around a handful of oyster farms in the area, comparing their actions to otters that were foraging in nearby control areas without farming. During hundreds of hours of observations, otters weren't seen eating any oysters and the presence of mariculture operations didn't appear to have a notable effect on their behavior.
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  • ACTION cruise route map

    Sikuliaq underway on unique ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ coastal research voyage

    July 25, 2025

    A 2,500-mile, 16-day research cruise that began Thursday in Seward and concludes in Nome aims to advance environmental research in coastal ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ through a novel addition: public tours of the research vessel when it makes port calls.
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  • A lush green landscape with evergreen trees, living and dead, framing a lake

    The secrets within Hummingbird Lake

    July 24, 2025

    Southeast ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ is home to more than 850 species of native trees, shrubs and wildflowers. When you count them up, it's more than half of all the plant species in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, growing in just six percent of the state's area. Glacial ice smothered most of the area not too long ago. So, when did all those plants get there?
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  • Five works of art inspired by scenes from Toolik Field Station

    Toolik celebrates 50 years with First Friday art show

    July 24, 2025

    Celebrate 50 years of Arctic research from the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks' Toolik Field Station at an art show this August at Black Spruce Brewing Co.
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