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  • A smiling man extends a hand with a slug peeking over his fingers

    Learn fun, fascinating facts about Alaska slugs

    January 15, 2025

    For the past three years, Joey Slowik has focused on preventing slug damage to crops. Along the way, Slowik, an integrated pest management technician with the ҹɫ¸£Àû Cooperative Extension Service, has uncovered a lot of odd and interesting information about the often-reviled gastropods.
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  • Alaska Department of Fish and Game technician Jerry Strait catches a northern pike in Vogel Lake in 2019.

    Pike use marine corridors to colonize new Alaska territory

    January 15, 2025

    Northern pike are moving through salt water to invade freshwater habitats in Southcentral Alaska, according to a new study. It's the first known documentation that northern pike are traveling through estuaries, where fresh water from rivers mixes with the ocean, to colonize new territory in North America.
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  • 24 NextGen scholars receive $268,000 in second round of scholarships

    January 15, 2025

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture NextGen Program has awarded 24 additional scholarships worth a total of $268,000 to undergraduate and graduate students at the ҹɫ¸£Àû.
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  • A group of about 10 people with trekking poles and heavy backpacks hiking on a rubble-strewn glacier under a clear sunny sky.

    Tuition-free educational backcountry expeditions offered for high schoolers

    January 14, 2025

    Inspiring Girls* Expeditions Alaska has opened applications for its 2025 tuition-free science and art backcountry excursions. The programs offer hands-on outdoor experiences that combine adventure with scientific and artistic exploration.
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  • Two black and white cows eat a snack of cabbage leaves and beet stalks

    Forum brings together Interior farmers, producers and market gardeners

    January 14, 2025

    A free two-day event will offer a mix of formal presentations and time for Interior Alaska farmers and growers to share ideas and knowledge. The inaugural Interior Alaska Farm Forum will be held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Pike's Waterfront Lodge in Fairbanks. It is designed to connect local farmers with other farmers and with the resources they need to succeed. It's also an opportunity for people thinking about becoming farmers to learn more.
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  • Cast members perform during a dress rehearsal of the UAF Theatre and Film production of Dance Nation Thursday, November 9, 2023 in the UAF Salisbury Theatre. UAF Photo by Eric Engman.

    Auditions open for ‘STRIKE! A Musical and Dramatic Revue’

    January 14, 2025

    Theatre UAF is holding auditions for "STRIKE! A Musical and Dramatic Revue," a production celebrating the resilience of the working class through songs and scenes from iconic musicals and playwrights.
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  • Students and staff of GeoFORCE Alaska hike across the Matanuska Glacier on a guided tour, 6/11/24. UAF photo by Leif Van Cise

    Public can explore Arctic leadership at free lectures

    January 13, 2025

    Weekly public lectures this spring at the ҹɫ¸£Àû will examine leadership challenges and opportunities in the Arctic. Topics include Indigenous leadership, environmental stewardship, justice, media, and military strategies.
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  • Indigenous students in academic caps and gowns toss their mortarboards in the air in an auditorium

    RAHI application period opens for summer 2025

    January 10, 2025

    The Rural Alaska Honors Institute is accepting applications for its summer 2025 session. The session will run from May 27 to July 11. Applications are due by Saturday, March 1.
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  • A man in outdoor gear with a rifle over his shoulder smiles in front of a backdrop of mountains and ocean

    Learn skills to take venison from field to plate

    January 10, 2025

    Venison is a local favorite on dinner tables in Southeast Alaska. Ian Derauf, who has been hunting and cooking wild game since he was a teenager, will lead a two-day workshop in Sitka on transforming meat from a Sitka black-tailed deer into tasty meals.
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  • A man in a suit sits at a wooden desk signing a document while surrounded by other men in suits applauding.

    The man who preserved Alaska

    January 09, 2025

    Today is the official national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States. He died Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100. Carter protected almost half of the land area (43 percent) of this giant state, with multiple new national conservation units, including parks, wildlife refuges and monuments.
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  • Green plants grow indoors under artificial light.

    Statewide webinar introduces indoor hydroponic growing methods

    January 09, 2025

    Learn the basics of growing plants indoors with a hydroponic system in a free statewide webinar, "Indoor Plants 101 for Hydroponic Home Growers," offered by the ҹɫ¸£Àû Cooperative Extension Service.
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  • A child sitting at a table with a smiling adult, working on a craft project using paper, scissors, tape and glue.

    January museum programs explore community

    January 08, 2025

    The University of Alaska Museum of the North will focus on the theme of community during family programs in January.
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  • A smiling woman fills a basket with native grasses with a body of water in the background.

    Traditional healer to lead workshop on herbalism

    January 07, 2025

    Join traditional healer Molly Cerridwen in a free webinar, "Introduction to Herbalism," sponsored by the Alaska Tribes Extension, part of the ҹɫ¸£Àû Cooperative Extension Service. Cerridwen will share a few basic techniques for using plants' healing properties, with examples of how she uses them in her own life and practice.
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  • A lightning bolt strikes a green forested hillside beyond a wide river in the foreground.

    Mystery of the dead caribou

    January 06, 2025

    Fifty-three years ago, an Army helicopter pilot flying over a tundra plateau saw a group of caribou. Thinking something looked weird, he circled for a closer look. The animals, dozens of them, were dead.
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  • fireworks against a dark sky with buildings

    UAF to host New Year's Eve Sparktacular fireworks display

    December 20, 2024

    The ҹɫ¸£Àû will host the Fairbanks Curling Lions' 35th annual Sparktacular celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 31. Fireworks will be launched from UAF's West Ridge starting at 8 p.m.
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