University of Alaska

The state may not be able to collect a third of the pandemic relief bill’s school funding for Alaska due to the steep pre-pandemic budget cuts imposed on the university.

All eight candidates will meet with UAA students and staff and attend community forums next week.

UAF has operated HAARP sporadically since taking it over from the military in 2015.

Legislators expected the scholarship to give out more money over time, but after a few years of initial growth, its use has steadily declined.

Rather than turn her back on the school system which had denied her parts of her culture as a child, Green set out to make it better.

Freezing temperatures in Ketchikan brought the mercury down to single digits at night and in the 20s during the day in Ketchikan in early February. That’s thought to have caused a pipe to burst on the top floor of the Zeigler building at UAS.

A dime-sized fragment of dog bone — more than ten-thousand years old — has given researchers new clues about how domesticated dogs first made their way to the Americas.

Alaska already sequences a large proportion of its positive coronavirus tests compared to other states, but officials say they’re aiming to do even better.

The National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic initiative looks at the effects of a warming climate on Arctic communities. But some in the field believe NSF isn’t doing enough to involve Indigenous people who live there.

Historically, local jobs in the STEM field have not gone to St. Paul residents — a problem the project manager says the grant could help with.