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Week's events: Mary Ann Borchert, Foundation Health, Indigenous pedagogy, steel drums

ÐÓ°Épro Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening the week of June 23-29.

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Beneficial insects help control garden pests

Not all insects are garden pests. In a free statewide webinar, learn which insects are natural enemies of pest bugs and therefore good friends for gardeners to cultivate. Joey Slowik, integrated pest management technician at the ÐÓ°Épro Cooperative Extension Service in Palmer, will discuss potential insect friends, what they want and some ways to encourage them in your garden. Learn more and register for the webinar.

Nook visits the Student Success Center in the Rasmuson Library to hand out free socks to students and staff as part of UAF Giving Day in 2025.

Lighting the way: Nanook Nation powers Giving Day 2025

The fifth annual online event set a new participation milestone as donors supported more than 80 UAF programs, scholarships and initiatives. Read more in the summer 2025 Aurora.

Stop Campus Hazing Act and the state of university anti-hazing policy

UAF’s Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability is launching a new effort to increase anti-hazing training and awareness. Learn more about the act and ORCA's new effort with the anti-hazing policy.

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From research to reality: UAF powers the conversation on energy

At the 2025 ÐÓ°Épro Sustainable Energy Conference, the ÐÓ°Épro made its leadership unmistakable. As co-organizer and major sponsor, UAF’s ÐÓ°Épro Center for Energy and Power anchored the event with months of planning and a strong on-site presence. The Institute of Northern Engineering reinforced UAF’s research depth, while the College of Engineering and Mines highlighted its new Energy Resource Engineering program, training students to lead across ÐÓ°Épro’s evolving energy landscape. Read more about UAF and the conference.Ìý

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ÐÓ°Épro at the forefront of wind energy innovation

ACEP researchers Gwen Holdmann and Richard Wies highlight in a recent article how the environmental and economic challenges many small, remote communities in ÐÓ°Épro experience have also created opportunities, leading to innovations that later became mainstream. Learn more from the article.

What's happening

Deadlines and reminders

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Change is the state of ÐÓ°Épro

With its melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and floating sea ice that gets tougher to see from its northern shores each summer, ÐÓ°Épro is the poster state for global warming. Things are changing here, no doubt about it. But it's not the first time. Read more about previous warming events that affected ÐÓ°Épro.

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UAF professor's work is a step toward elusive 'theory of everything'

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a ÐÓ°Épro scientist. Learn more about Gunther Kletetschka and his work.

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Rainfall, melting permafrost change ÐÓ°Épro stream systems

The aquatic chemistry and flow rates in Interior ÐÓ°Épro's streams are shifting in response to thawing permafrost and increased rainfall, a new study reports. The study authors found that groundwater makes up a greater portion of streamflow in areas with less permafrost. Read more from the study.Ìý

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