A science, technology, engineering, and math program geared towards Alaska Native students has guided one Kodiak local through both middle school and high school. And now, he’s off to college.
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University of Alaska Fairbanks intern looks at nucleotides as health supplement
Interns this summer with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute are looking at food science in Kodiak, and one is investigating a new health food fad. University of Alaska Fairbanks student Alina Fairbanks is doing market research focusing on nucleotides.
University of Alaska could receive $5 million for capital projects
The University of Alaska Board of Regents will decide how the money is spent at its Aug.9 meeting.
Bethel scientist returns home to study climate change
What happens after fire scorches the tundra, and what follows when carbon that’s been locked away for millennia gets released? Currently, a group of scientists is camping 50 miles north of Bethel are attempting to answer these questions. For one scientist the research is personal because it means coming home.
University of Alaska Southeast tightens belt, gets creative after about a half-million dollar budget cut
University of Alaska Southeast Chancellor Rick Caulfield said University of Alaska Southeast will lose $400,000 – $600,000 under the current plan.
University of Alaska budget cut by $8 million in legislative compromise
The state Legislature’s conference committee cut $8 million from the University of Alaska’s budget on Wednesday, a softer blow than the nearly $22 million reduction proposed by the state Senate.
Flags at half-staff for former Alaska attorney general
Flags are at half-staff in honor of former Alaska attorney general and lifelong University of Alaska advocate, Grace Schaible of Fairbanks. Schaible died Saturday at the age of 91.
UAF graduate student maps native place names around Iliamna Lake
For her doctoral dissertation, Yoko Kugo is visiting old village sites, speaking with elders and taking pictures to document the traditional names of places around the lake.
From gangs to a grad: A former inmate celebrates finishing college
Galindo is one of three Flying University alums who graduated this month with a four-year degree from the University of Alaska Southeast. Former inmate Nathan Block and Thomas Spitzfaden, a regular student who took classes in Lemon Creek Correctional Center with the inmates, also graduated with bachelor’s degrees.
Years of budget cuts hamper monitoring of Alaska earthquakes, including Monday’s
The Alaska Earthquake Center has suspended most field maintenance of the state’s 150 seismic monitoring stations. Forty stations are currently offline.