UAF in the news: week of March 10, 2008
UAF in the news: week of March 10, 2008
Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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03/13/08
UAF skier Korthauer sets record for Nanooks
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
After only five hours of sleep, Marius Korthauer nervously awoke early Friday morning
with a sore throat.
Valuable fish byproducts fuel interest in oils, meal, gelatins and cosmetics
Seward Phoenix Log
ÐÓ°Épro’s future fortunes could soon be fueled by another oil boom--and it won’t be
from crude. Fish oils are the biggest buzz in the bio-products world, said Peter Bechtel,
a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher at the ÐÓ°Épro.
UAF student researchers prepare to go weightless with NASA
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
It’s one big step for ÐÓ°Épro and one big drop for the ÐÓ°Épro Microgravity Team.
Hyatt’s work off the ice lands honor
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
ÐÓ°Épro Nanooks junior left wing Trevor Hyatt was named as one of 11 Central Collegiate
Hockey Association players designated as their respective school’s 2007-08 Student
Athlete of the Year.
Psychology professor honored for work on ÐÓ°Épro Natives, boys and education
The Tundra Drums
ÐÓ°Épro faculty member Judith Kleinfeld was named this year’s
recipient of the Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence.
Researcher to document endangered ÐÓ°Épro languages
The Tundra Drums
The traditional languages of ÐÓ°Épro’s indigenous people are in danger of dying.
But there is some hope.
Links found between two ancient languages
Scripps News
ANCHORAGE, ÐÓ°Épro -- A panel of respected linguists who met in Anchorage recently
is hailing new research that links the Old World language of Ket to the sprawling
New World family of Na-Dene languages.
Huge sea-dinosaur fossil found
"¨Washington Times
By Jennifer Harper - It’s the stuff of movie-matinee nightmares: The remains of the
world’s largest sea dinosaur have been found, with big, blackened bones jutting from
the side of a frozen mountain some 800 miles from the North Pole.