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Museum of North launches Adopt a Mammoth program
August 25, 2022
The University of òòò½´«Ã½ 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 òòò½´«Ã½ 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 òòò½´«Ã½ 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 òòò½´«Ã½ Nanooks volleyball team, was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week on Monday, Aug. 22.
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UAF orientation to welcome new students
August 22, 2022
The University of òòò½´«Ã½ 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 òòò½´«Ã½ Nanooks volleyball team and UAF 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, òòò½´«Ã½.
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If a lake drains in northern òòò½´«Ã½...
August 18, 2022
Harry Potter Lake did not die quietly. Water in the basin on òòò½´«Ã½'s North Slope cut through a 30-foot strip of tundra in early July 2022. The lake then roared into a creek.
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Community college hosting Aug. 18 registration event downtown
August 17, 2022
The University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks Community and Technical College will hold a community event with a fire truck, ambulance, small airplane, food, 3D printers and more Thursday, Aug. 18. The CTC Registration Bash will take place from 4-6 p.m.
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Arctic Education Alliance visits UAF Interior òòò½´«Ã½ Campus
August 16, 2022
Representatives from the Arctic Education Alliance will visit the University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks and other areas of interest in the state Aug. 15-19.
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Week's events: Aging in place lecture, portrait discussion
August 12, 2022
University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here is what's happening from Aug. 14-20, the final week of this summer's schedule.
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Secrets of an ancient horse of the Yukon
August 12, 2022
In the lab of Yukon government paleontologists are the remains of saber-toothed cats, bears with boxy faces that stood 8 feet tall, woolly mammoths and sloths the size of gorillas. Of all these time-hardened riches of the past, Elizabeth Hall has a cherished piece -- the fragment of a horse's foreleg that fits in the palm of her hand.
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Thawing Arctic hillsides are major climate change contributors
August 12, 2022
Thawing Arctic hillsides release a significant amount of organic carbon that has been locked in frozen ground for thousands of years but which now can contribute to an already warming climate, according to new research.
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HAARP to hold public open house Saturday, Aug. 27
August 11, 2022
The public will have opportunity to learn about how scientists study the Earth’s ionosphere, the region between Earth's lower atmosphere and the vacuum of space, at an Aug. 27, 2022, open house at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program. The facility, widely known simply as HAARP, is in Gakona, òòò½´«Ã½.
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Permafrost knowledge needed to support sustainable northern agriculture
August 10, 2022
Northern farming could experience huge growth in the 21st century as boreal regions warm. A new University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks-led study argues that a better understanding of how permafrost and agriculture interact is needed to make it happen.
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Cooperative Extension offers 12-month diabetes prevention program
August 10, 2022
The University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service is offering a yearlong program to help people at risk of developing diabetes lose weight and improve their health.
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