UAF in the news: week of Sept. 8, 2008

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: 907-474-7902
09/12/08

�Ӱ�pro skier earns NCAA Division II honors
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--�Ӱ�pro Nanooks skier Einar Often has been selected as the male winner of the 2008 NCAA Division II Sportsmanship Award, giving the Great Northwest Athletic Conference a sweep of the Division II awards.

Local eating isn’t easy: Fairbanks professor wants to improve �Ӱ�pro food security"¨
Juneau Empire
It was a dark and rainy summer. Southeast gardeners suffered.

Fairbanks tour guide finds niche in gay, lesbian market
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Our basecamp among the fireweed of Bulldog Cove was right out of an �Ӱ�pro postcard.

�Ӱ�pro Nanooks women set basketball schedule
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--A year ago, the �Ӱ�pro Nanooks women’s basketball team stormed out of the gate with a 7-1 preseason record, but limped home with a 5-13 mark in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

Fairbanks woman assists those who suffer from fetal alcohol disorders
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Maureen Harwood keeps a picture at work. In it, a 4-year-old boy sits on her knee. Harwood steadies his waist with her right hand. He wears a big, open smile. His eyes are thin and dark, and his frame is small.

Museum design wins national architecture award
The Northern Light
The University of �Ӱ�pro Museum of the North continues to garner national and international acclaim for its architectural design.

Feral cattle isolated and genetically distinct
Agricultural Research Service
Feral cattle on �Ӱ�pro’s Chirikof Island are genetically distinct from commercial breeds raised in the United States.

Program gives district’s employees a chance to become teachers
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--A Fairbanks North Star Borough School District program is giving employees the chance to head back to the classroom and giving the school district a way to defend against teacher turnover.

Volcanologists step on familiar but different ground
SITNews
"¨Jessica Larsen knows an island in �Ӱ�pro’s Aleutian Chain so well that you could drop her off blindfolded anywhere on its eastern lobe and she’d know where she is. But today you’d have to give her a few minutes to study the horizon, since ash a few feet thick now covers part of Umnak Island.