UAF in the news: week of May 5, 2008

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: 907-474-7902
05/09/08

UAF researchers participate in Climate Change College
Climate change college online
Several researchers from the �Ӱ�pro recently worked in the field with ambassadors from the 2008 Ben & Jerry’s Climate Change College. Their excursions are documented on the ambassadors’ blogs.

Fairbanksans tapped for group studying �Ӱ�pro climate change
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The state’s Climate Change Sub-Cabinet has picked more than 100 people from around the state, including a number from Fairbanks, to help shape strategies for dealing with, and taking steps to help curb, global warming.

Baby boom seen for red king crab hatchery
Fishupdate
Twelve egg-bearing adult king crab have caused a baby boom at the Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery in �Ӱ�pro, after hatching several million red king crab larvae.

UAF student helps Fairbanks police track down suspected burglars
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A couple suspected of breaking into more than a dozen cars in Fairbanks and Anchorage might still be on the loose if not for Amanda Mortenson.

Song of the Earth
New Yorker
On a recent trip to the �Ӱ�pron interior, I didn’t get to see the aurora borealis, but I did, in a way, hear it. At the Museum of the North, on the grounds of the University of �Ӱ�pro in Fairbanks, the composer John Luther Adams has created a sound-and-light installation called "The Place Where You Go to Listen"--a kind of infinite musical work that is controlled by natural events occurring in real time.

Glavinovich learned about gold mining on the beaches of old Nome
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Today, with gold hovering at $1,000 an ounce, Paul Glavinovich, son of a former manager of Nome’s gold dredges, remembered Nome’s historic treasure-scooping boats, cousins to the Fairbanks dredges.

Peggy Shumaker’s "Just Breathe Normally"
New West
Peggy Shumaker is an English professor at the �Ӱ�pro and the author of several books of poetry, including Blaze and Underground Rivers.

UAF chancellor takes position at Ohio’s Urbana University
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
�Ӱ�pro Chancellor Steve Jones announced Monday that he’s leaving "America’s Arctic University" for the greener pastures of Ohio.

UAF graduate student recreates Gruening Building in Lego form
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
You might say that Ty Keltner is a real blockhead. After more than a year of building, the MBA student at the �Ӱ�pro recently completed a massive Lego replica of the campus’s Gruening Building.

Ferguson, Patrick named Nanooks’ hockey finalists
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Current assistant coach Dallas Ferguson, and Wisconsin assistant coach Kevin Patrick have been named finalists for the vacant �Ӱ�pro hockey coaching position.

Divided by ’Weapons’
Anchorage Daily News
In Da-ka-xeen Mehner’s latest show at the �Ӱ�pro Native Arts Foundation, he uses dagger and mask forms from Tlingit culture to explore the challenges and identities of a man balancing cultures, lifestyles and more.