University of Alaska Fairbanks

Wildlife managers, scientists and students are raising the alarm over the potential loss of Alaska’s cooperative fish and wildlife research unit.

After eight years on the job, Chancellor Dan White is retiring from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. An announcement late Friday says he’ll be leaving at the end of July. In spite of cuts in research funds, he says the institution is stable and well-positioned.

According to an internal budget document, the Trump administration is seeking to end nearly all of NOAA’s climate research.

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.”