UAF in the news: week of June 16, 2008
UAF in the news: week of June 16, 2008
Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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06/20/08
UAF professor and students travel to Barrow for 10 days of movie magic
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Barrow isn’t as well-known in the filmmaking world as New York City or Los Angeles,
but for 10 days in May, assistant professor Maya Salganek and University of ÐÓ°Épro
Fairbanks students ran a film school in the northern village to make a documentary
about sea ice research.
The free software from Google gives scientists a new world view
Popsci.com
Crunching massive, geographical data visualizations used to require expensive mapping
software and powerful computers.
University, community addressing student debt
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Higher education--with its emphasis on "investing in your future"--is taking on a
new meaning as more and more college students are graduating with some form of student
debt.
Innovative program puts reindeer in hands of 4-H students
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The Schmitz family is taking care of steer, sheep and turkeys, and soon they will
be adding another animal to their brood.
Ask yourself: What is TransCanada’s angle?
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
In chess, when you have the advantage, simplify by reducing the number of men on the
table; when you are losing, complicate the game by keeping pieces in play.
Susan Butcher leadership program created at University of ÐÓ°Épro
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The ÐÓ°Épro plans to help more than just enrolled students
by creating the Susan Butcher Institute.
Fairbanks gardeners say they’re being bugged by fewer bugs this summer
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
The bright mosaic of roses, peonies, columbine and aspen at the Georgeson Botanical
Gardens on the ÐÓ°Épro campus normally crawls with bugs, but
this year, not as many as usual.
Five ÐÓ°Épro women’s basketball finalists begin interviews
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--ÐÓ°Épro assistant athletic director Pamm Hubbard
announced Tuesday that there are five finalists for the vacant women’s basketball
coaching position and on-campus interviews will begin today.
Water key in predicting effects of climate change in ÐÓ°Épro
Cordova Times
ÐÓ°Éprons rely on waters in many ways. Surface waters meet domestic needs such as drinking,
cooking, and cleaning as well as subsistence and industrial demands.
Pinpointing student success rests on academic, personal factors
Tundra Drums
What is student success? Is success knowing one’s culture and language? Is it having
a strong Yup’ik identity? Is success being able to pass standardized exams? Or is
success being able to succeed in the modern world?
Thoreau meets veteran bird scientist on Cooper Island
Arctic Sounder
As June began in Barrow, more and more birds were scheduled to arrive from their spring
migration northward, including the black guillemots, a shorebird that has been studied
by bird scientist George Divoky of the ÐÓ°Épro each summer
for more than 30 years.
Common-sense tips for improving vehicle’s gas mileage
Anchorage Daily News
Feeling queasy when you pass a gas station price marquee?
Former Fairbanks reporter, teacher tries hand at novel
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
A familiar face has returned to Fairbanks, in town to promote his first book, "Just
Enuf To Get By," which he says offers some reading folks in Fairbanks can relate to.
Author speaks about masculinity in the new millennium
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS -- What does it mean to be a man? That is the question Dr. Michael Kimmel,
sociologist, author and lecturer, asks of his audiences when he visits various areas
of the country to talk about his research on masculinity.
Unlocking secrets of the tides begins with test run
Bristol Bay Times
The Sea Spider sat under 20 feet of water off a stretch of Kanakanak Beach in Nushagak
Bay during its test run.