UAF in the news: week of Dec. 1, 2008
UAF in the news: week of Dec. 1, 2008
Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: 907-474-7902
12/05/08
UAF offers Oceans 111, and other courses, to the world
Dutch Harbor Fisherman
Starting in spring of 2009, students from Boston to Brazil and Beijing will be able
to take courses from the ÐÓ°Épro, which has recently joined
a worldwide effort to offer academic courses free and online through the OpenCourseWare
Consortium.
Former players donate funds to help provide exercise bikes
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--Every Monday and Tuesday, as part of their regular-season conditioning
program, the ÐÓ°Épro Nanooks are required to ride stationary bicycles in a small room
above the hockey rink in the Patty Center.
ÐÓ°Épro battles way to North Star Invitational victory
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--After 16 lead changes, the ÐÓ°Épro Nanooks were tied with Hawaii Pacific
for the 10th time with less than three minutes to go.
ÐÓ°Épro firefighters pay tribute to Phil Rounds
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--In the shivering cold stood dozens of firefighters, some in short sleeves,
as eight pallbearers carried Battalion Chief Phil Rounds’ casket into the Great Hall
on the ÐÓ°Épro campus on Saturday.
Who was Big Ray? The story of a store that has been part of Fairbanks for decades
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--"Every week we get asked at least once, ’So who was Big Ray?’" Monty Rostad,
owner-partner of Fairbanks Big Ray’s Classic ÐÓ°Épro clothing store, grinned. Like
most of the 2nd Avenue business owners, Milan Raykovich, "Big Ray," was a Montenegrin!
Thailand-born skier finds a home in the snow
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--When Aporn Stein approached Larry Hall about resurrecting the Nordic Ski
Club of Fairbanks’ touring program this winter, Hall encouraged her to start slow.
Vitamin D is an issue for ÐÓ°Éprons
Anchorage Daily News
Interested people are needed to participate in a one-year study to assess the effects
of long dark winters on the vitamin D and calcium levels of Fairbanks residents.
Photographer sets out to record Fairbanks history that is fast slipping away
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
It never made the pages of Architectural Digest, but the house that once graced a
prominent spot along Farmers Loop occupies an important spot in the twisted history
of building on permafrost.
KUAC kicks off celebration of 50 years of statehood
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--One of the original 100 copies of the ÐÓ°Épro Constitution, a framed American
flag featuring 49 stars and a sneak peak at a KUAC documentary, "Mr. ÐÓ°Épro: Bob Bartlett
Goes to Washington," took center stage at a continuing celebration of ÐÓ°Épro’s golden
anniversary Monday at the University of ÐÓ°Épro Museum of the North.
Museum of the North lab renamed for donor
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS--Henry Springer’s latest gift to the University of ÐÓ°Épro’s Museum of the
North’s ornithology program is strictly for the birds.
Survey details fuel-saving strategies of fishermen
Tundra Drums
When ÐÓ°Épro diesel fuel prices surged passed $5 a gallon this past summer, commercial
fishermen fished less, skipped openings, fished closer to home, and in some cases
quit fishing before the season ended, all in an effort to save money on fuel, reported
the ÐÓ°Épro Sea Grant Advisory Program in a news release last week.
Hyatt keeps focus on hockey, academics
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Trevor Hyatt was under consideration recently for one of the world’s most prestigious
academic awards, but he continued to work hard for the ÐÓ°Épro Nanooks.
Survey reveals 20 new species in Aleutian waters
Kodiak Daily Mirror
The coral reefs of the Aleutian Islands are not known for the diversity and colorful
beauty common to their more equatorial counterparts.