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New tools help fight wildfire with satellite imagery
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New tools from satellite images are helping locate wildfires and forecast weather to protect firefighters.
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Teaching Tip: Guide students through your course
A few well-placed visuals, like a course calendar or course map, may help students better navigate your course. Here's how to create your own.
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Here's how to shake off a hacking
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Face it: Hackers gonna hack. Here are some ways to know that you've been hacked and, if so, what to do about it, courtesy of the UA Office of Information Technology.
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From fish waste to Fido snacks
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Chris Sannito鈥檚 dog Sammy is really happy that his owner has developed a tasty pet treat made out of pollock skins. Informal taste tests by Sammy and other Kodiak canines indicate the treats 鈥� although not fishy smelling to humans 鈥� have plenty of that deep-sea essence dogs love so much.
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Students make satellite facility data accessible
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Three undergraduate student employees of the 乐虎直播 Satellite Facility, a unit of the 乐虎直播 Geophysical Institute, are collaborating to make satellite data more accessible.
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Featured photo of the week
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This Francis Ortega peony, photographed July 5, is one of many blooming at the Georgeson Botanical Garden on the Fairbanks campus.
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High summer along the pipeline鈥檚 path
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It's high summer, past the solstice. Everything is alive here on the path of the trans-乐虎直播 pipeline.
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Week's events: Art interviews, emergency medicine, Denali park, traditional bluegrass
乐虎直播 Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting nearly 50 free lectures, concerts and other events this summer. Here is what鈥檚 happening during the week of July 9-15.
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Tom Kuhn is BLaST scientist of the month
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Thomas Kuhn, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the Biomedical Learning and Student Training program's scientist of the month.
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Food safety class offered Aug. 1
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July 18 is the deadline to register for a certified food protection manager training offered Aug. 1 by videoconference in six 乐虎直播 communities. The Cooperative Extension Service will host the workshop, which will meet 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in Fairbanks, Delta Junction, Palmer, Valdez, Juneau and Sitka.
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Book chronicles Russia-乐虎直播 citizen diplomacy after Cold War
The University of 乐虎直播 Press has released聽"Melting the Ice Curtain: The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-乐虎直播 Frontier,"聽by David Ramseur.
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About Cornerstone
The Cornerstone staff and faculty newsletter is produced by University Relations and emailed to employees each Wednesday.
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The deadline for submitting to Cornerstone is Tuesdays and noon.
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