University of Alaska

The latest installment of the art and science collaborative known as In a Time of Change is currently on view at the Fairbanks Arts Association’s Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park. The collaborative process enhanced interaction among artists to create works that re-imagine the boreal forest in the new exhibit called “Boreal Echoes.”

Scientists at University of Alaska Fairbanks have mapped out where a prehistoric mammoth spent her life in what’s now Canada and Alaska and found evidence of human hunter camps in many of the same places.

Fairbanks is celebrating Martin Luther King’s birthday weekend with several events including a gospel festival Friday evening, a youth breakfast Saturday, and a Black history event Sunday afternoon. That presentation at Pioneer Park will cover the efforts to document important firsts in Alaska’s Black community.

Hibernation scientists at University of Alaska Fairbanks have invited colleagues and students from around the world to a workshop in Fairbanks. They reviewed each others’ findings indoors last week, and will head up to Toolik Lake Research Station in the Brooks Range this week for outdoor lab work.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is counseling instructors on how to adapt to the surge in AI tools.

Fairbanks’s drone center is celebrating 25 automated flights to Alaska villages last month. The flights were made in a Cessna Grand Caravan, without a person in the pilot’s seat, (although there was a safety pilot ready to take over on every flight.) The tests demonstrated how emergency medicine, and eventually cargo, could be delivered across the state.

Millions of dollars of research and operations come through the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Director Bob McCoy talked to local business leaders this week about how that impacts the community.

A group of University of Alaska graduate student workers trying to form a union marched on the UAF campus Friday. They’re following a nationwide trend of student workers organizing.

University of Alaska President, Pat Pitney gave her annual “State of the University” address Tuesday in Fairbanks.

A Fairbanks dentist is encouraging patients to keep up their oral hygiene by giving away -- a car. Dr. Todd Haskin says he wants people to be up-to-date with dental exams and cleanings.