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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 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø farmers and growers to share ideas and knowledge. The inaugural Interior ²ÝÁñÉçÇø 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 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Theatre and Film production of Dance Nation Thursday, November 9, 2023 in the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Salisbury Theatre. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Photo by Eric Engman.

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

    January 14, 2025

    Theatre ²ÝÁñÉçÇø 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 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø hike across the Matanuska Glacier on a guided tour, 6/11/24. ²ÝÁñÉçÇø photo by Leif Van Cise

    Public can explore Arctic leadership at free lectures

    January 13, 2025

    Weekly public lectures this spring at the University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks 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 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø 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 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø. 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 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø

    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 University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks 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 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø 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 ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Tribes Extension, part of the University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks 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

    ²ÝÁñÉçÇø to host New Year's Eve Sparktacular fireworks display

    December 20, 2024

    The University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks will host the Fairbanks Curling Lions' 35th annual Sparktacular celebration on Tuesday, Dec. 31. Fireworks will be launched from ²ÝÁñÉçÇø's West Ridge starting at 8 p.m.
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  • A Southern right whale, photographed from above, swimming with her calf, which is approximately one third her size.

    Study reveals right whales live 130 years -- or more

    December 20, 2024

    New research published in Science Advances reveals that right whales can survive for more than 130 years -- almost twice as long as previously understood.
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  • A greenhouse is lit up with bright pink lights on a dark, snowy campus

    Lighting upgrades turn ²ÝÁñÉçÇø greenhouse pink

    December 20, 2024

    Keen observers might have noticed that the orange glow from a University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks greenhouse recently shifted to pink. The color change came with lighting upgrades this summer at the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station Greenhouse on the West Ridge of the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Troth Yeddha' Campus.
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  • Two people stand next to a University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks sign as a pickup idles nearby producing a white plume of exhaust. An illuminated temperature reading on the sign reads minus 41F. In the background is an evergreen-covered hill topped with a building. A large smokestack from a powerplant also rises above the pickup and trees.

    Ancient beavers, sea floor bumps, thick air

    December 20, 2024

    It's time to start emptying the notebook following the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where more than 25,000 scientists shared their work during five days.
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  • Aurora over the University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks

    First results from 2021 rocket launch shed light on aurora's birth

    December 19, 2024

    Newly published results from a 2021 experiment led by a University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level processes that create the type of auroras that dance rapidly across the sky.
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