University of Alaska Fairbanks

Scientists at Alaska’s flagship research university staged a demonstration Tuesday to protest threats to research funding, federal government reorganization and the freezing of science grants. Two dozen researchers gathered on the plaza in front of the Margaret Murie building at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The federal government is investigating and suspending research funding for some universities for not complying with recent executive orders. That’s left some UAF faculty and students waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Renowned historian H.W. Brands will be talking in Fairbanks Friday about how today’s tumultuous change in the federal government is colored by history. The lecture is at 5:00 p.m. at the BP Design Theater, in the Engineering Building, and available online.

The University of Alaska system strikes DEI language from its programs, job titles, websites.

Analysis of almost a century of Alaska fire weather data shows that many of Alaska’s most extreme wildfire seasons started with an early thaw.

The first Americans ate a lot of mammoth about 13,000 years ago, after entering through Alaska to rapidly populate North America.That’s according to a study co-authored by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and published in the journal Science Advances.

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.”

University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have documented the potent greenhouse gas methane coming from dry uplands of thawing permafrost. The discovery is adding to global climate change concerns.

For the past decade more Arctic residents have noticed an increase in beavers and the way they change the land and affect other animals. The Arctic Beaver Observation Network, or ABON is meeting for three days in Fairbanks to inform each other about new findings.

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.