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  • Harry Potter Lake, pictured in this drone photo, lies mostly empty after its water drained into a nearby creek on Alaska鈥檚 North Slope in early July 2022

    August 19, 2022

    Harry Potter Lake did not die quietly. Water in the basin on Alaska's North Slope cut through a 30-foot strip of tundra in early July 2022. The lake then roared into a creek.

  • August 11, 2022


  • Aerial view of the UAF Engineering Learning and Innovation Building

    July 28, 2022

    The 夜色福利 will name its engineering building for UAF alumnus, philanthropist and miner Joseph E. Usibelli.

  • Katey Walter Anthony inspects flaming methane gas seeping from a hole in the ice on the surface of a pond on the UAF campus in February 2016.

    June 03, 2022

    In her recently published memoir, Katey Walter Anthony writes that a certain type of northern lake is a lot like herself...

  • UAF Steelbridge team poses for a photo after placing second at the National competition.

    Steelbridge team claims second place in Nationals

    May 31, 2022

    Congratulations to the UAF Steelbridge team for their achievement at the 2022 SSBC National Finals.

  • Austin Laber commencement speech

    May 08, 2022

    Austin Laber, B.S. civil engineering, delivers a very inspirational speech at the 2022 UAF Commencement.

  • April 25, 2022

    Margaret Darrow, professor of geological engineering, is the recipient of the 2022 Usibelli Distinguished Teaching Award. Congratulations!

  • CSET Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 1

    CSET Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 1

    April 21, 2022

    The Center for Safety Equity in Transportation has just released its latest newsletter.

  • A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia in November 2014. Photo by Vladimir Pushkarev, Reuters via Nova.

    February 02, 2022

    The upcoming episode of the PBS series Nova follows several scientists from UAF as they seek to understand so-called "arctic sinkholes", which are openings created by underground methane explosions. Among the scientists featured are WERC research faculty Katey Walter Anthony and her Ph.D. student Nicholas Hasson.

  • January 13, 2022

    A paper by WERC faculty Benjamin Jones (lead author), Mikhail Kanevskiy, and Benjamin Gaglioti was featured in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment's permafrost-themed issue that was released on Jan. 11.

  • Geological engineering alumnus leads ADOT&PF

    November 01, 2021


  • New project: Carbon Ore, Rare Earth, and Critical Mineral Development in Alaska

    September 11, 2021


  • Stuefer

    September 02, 2021

    Svetlana Stuefer, an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering, was recently awarded a three-year NASA EPSCoR research award.

  • Researcher on frozen debris lobes along the Dalton Highway in the southern Brooks Range, Alaska.

    In the News: The importance of UAF engineering research to Alaska's resource industry

    August 20, 2021


  • Mat Wooller, director of the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility, kneels among a collection of mammoth tusks at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. UAF photo by JR Ancheta

    August 12, 2021

    A study led by Matthew Wooller is the cover story in the latest issue of the journal Science. The article outlines the movement of an Arctic woolly mammoth as reconstructed from isotope studies on a tusk.