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An attempt to demystify the mysterious
September 08, 2022
NEAR GAKONA, ALASKA -- In this wild place where dump truck drivers once tipped load after load of gravel onto the moss to make roads and building pads, scientists rolled open an iron gate one recent Saturday afternoon.
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Presentation to discuss resurrecting the woolly mammoth
September 08, 2022
Technology startup company Colossus Biosciences and national organization The Explorer's Club will host a presentation about the company's work toward resurrecting the woolly mammoth.
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Frigid but not rigid -- researchers discover surprising plant phenomenon
September 06, 2022
Peter Ray and Syndonia Bret-Harte have studied Arctic plants for a combined 50 years. But they recently found there was still more to learn when an accidental experiment led to a surprising discovery about how such plants behave in the snow.
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Students find sky-high excitement with ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ drone center
September 02, 2022
ACUASI's visit to Delta Junction Junior High School — home of the Grizzlies — was part of ACUASI’s effort to get young people interested in science, technology, engineering and math.
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September museum programs explore water
September 01, 2022
The University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Museum of the North is focusing on the theme of water during family programs in September.
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Chasing the sun from New York to ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ
September 01, 2022
When I left my sister's house in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, I was 4,200 miles from my home. That's a long way, but I slept in my Fairbanks bed before the next sunrise.
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ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ scientists lead Arctic section of State of the Climate report
August 31, 2022
University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks scientists at the International Arctic Research Center are among world experts leading the State of the Climate report, which summarizes global environmental conditions in 2021.
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ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ names 2021-2022 honors students
August 26, 2022
The University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks has announced the students named to the deans’ and chancellor’s lists for the fall 2021 and spring 2022 semesters. The lists recognize students’ outstanding academic achievements.
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Adopt a woolly mammoth and win!
August 25, 2022
A University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks scientist wants to find out when the last woolly mammoth fell to the grass in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. He is asking for help from an unusual source: people like you.
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Museum of North launches Adopt a Mammoth program
August 25, 2022
The University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks is inviting the public to go woolly mammoth hunting. The newly launched Adopt a Mammoth program encourages sponsorship of each of the roughly 1,500 teeth, tusks and bones in the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Museum of the North's collection.
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Barn quilt to be displayed at Fairbanks Experiment Farm
August 24, 2022
A new public art project will be unveiled on Aug. 27 at 1 p.m. at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm on the University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks campus. A barn quilt titled "Wild Blueberry and Troth Blossoms" is the 37th quilt on the statewide Far North Quilt Trail Project. It will be displayed on the side of the barn.
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Long named GNAC Defensive Player of Week
August 22, 2022
Jessa Long, the libero for the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Nanooks volleyball team, was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday, Aug. 22.
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ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ orientation to welcome new students
August 22, 2022
The University of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Fairbanks will welcome hundreds of new students during orientation activities this week.
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Nanooks volleyball extends coach Scott for four years
August 18, 2022
The ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Nanooks volleyball team and ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ athletic director Brock Anundson have announced a four-year contract extension for head coach Brian Scott. Scott is currently entering his eighth year as the head coach of the Nanooks' volleyball program, first taking over in 2015.
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Arctic Fest 2022 combines arts, science, Indigenous perspectives
August 18, 2022
A new type of festival that combines the arts, sciences, and Indigenous cultural and knowledge systems to help explain and respond to climate change in the North will open later this month in Fairbanks, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ.
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