University of Alaska Fairbanks

Scientists in Alaska will bounce radio signals off an asteroid today from the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program research site in Gakona. The experiment will be preparation for a more spectacular near-Earth asteroid fly-by in six years.

A project combining solar energy and food production is scheduled to launch next year. University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers will test the concept during Alaska’s short but intense summer.

The director of the recently released movie “Till” studied film at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Chinonye Chukwu will be celebrated following a Sunday afternoon screening of the movie at the Goldstream Cinemas in Fairbanks

The Alaska Native Language Center is celebrating its 50th anniversary. It was established by the Alaska Legislature on July 6,1972, as center for research and documentation of twenty Native languages of Alaska. It has a permanent home at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

A group of 28 yearling Wood Bison will join a herd established along the Innoko River through a reintroduction project.

This year’s Alaska fire season is moving toward a record for acres burned. This week’s heavy wildfire smoke in Fairbanks is forecast to persist through the weekend, as several large blazes including the 11,000-acre Minto Lakes fire north of town remain active due to hot, dry weather. That’s raised questions about where the smoke will be next, and how to handle the health risks.

Robert Herrick has been named to a NASA science team for a European Space Agency’s mission to Venus. It is the second Venus mission he is working on.

A talk from the University of Alaska Fairbanks delves into the narrative Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing to justify the invasion of Ukraine, and the war’s potential impacts to Alaska. A link to the recording is posted below.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received a $1.7 million grant to construct a picture of what the Bering Land Bridge looked like during the last ice age.

Riley Troyer is a University of Iowa PHD candidate involved with an upcoming rocket mission which will probe pulsating aurora.