Friday Focus: In service to society

Our graduates have the future of our communities and state in mind as they move into the workforce or on to further educational pursuits.

Rasmuson offers new research methods database

SAGE Research Methods is designed to support the teaching and learning of research methodology at all levels for multiple disciplines.

乐虎直播 Satellite Facility鈥檚 Albright focuses on lifelong learning

Wade Albright said his job was like 鈥渄rinking water out of a fire hose鈥� at one point. He was working as a technician at the 乐虎直播 Satellite Facility, part of the Geophysical Institute, and was challenged every day. Almost two decades later, this March, he was named deputy director.

The man who broke through the Northwest Passage

Fifty years ago, a ship sailed toward obstacles that captains usually avoid. The icebreaking tanker Manhattan was an oil company鈥檚 attempt to see if it might be profitable to move 乐虎直播 oil to the East Coast through the Northwest Passage. Begging his way aboard was Merritt Helfferich, then 34 and a do-all guy at the Geophysical Institute.

On the calendar

Museum Early Explorers: Migration (today)

Deadlines and reminders

Fairbanks Flutists: 'For the Birds'

The free May 18 concert in Davis Concert Hall will include works that feature musical representations of birds.

11 teams represented UAF at Heart Walk

UAF raised over $30,000 for the American Heart Association as part of the 2019 Heart Walk, more than twice what was raised in 2018.

Best small businesses in Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Six Bethel-based ventures have been named to the 2019 Best in the West small-business list for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

Featured photo of the week

Students enjoy good weather on the green lawn outside Wood Center during finals week on the Fairbanks campus. UAF photo by JR Ancheta.