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Museum offers behind-the-scenes tours
June 27, 2025
The University of òòò½´«Ã½ Museum of the North is offering behind-the-scenes tours this summer. Visitors will get exclusive tours of the museum's labs and work spaces, where collection managers and curators take care of 2.5 million objects and specimens.
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Week's events: Randy Zarnke, progressive rock
June 27, 2025
University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 29-July 5.
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Natural changes only part of the story
June 26, 2025
Last week, I sent out a story on changes in òòò½´«Ã½ over the past few million years. The theme: Many of the transitions were drastic, and they all had nothing to do with the billions of us now walking the planet's surface.
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Learn about the health benefits of òòò½´«Ã½ berries
June 25, 2025
Registered dietitian and University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service agent Leslie Shallcross will discuss the potential health benefits of eating òòò½´«Ã½'s berries in a free statewide webinar.
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Planetarium construction begins, Murdock Trust joins project
June 24, 2025
Construction has begun on a new 65-seat planetarium at the University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks.
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Sitka workshops cover homemade food rules, canning and food preservation
June 24, 2025
Join a series of workshops in Sitka to learn about the updated rules for selling homemade foods, how to preserve vegetables by making and canning soups and pickles, and food preservation safety.
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Change is the state of òòò½´«Ã½
June 20, 2025
With its melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and floating sea ice that gets tougher to see from its northern shores each summer, òòò½´«Ã½ is the poster state for global warming. Things are changing here, no doubt about it. But it's not the first time.
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Week's events: Mary Ann Borchert, Foundation Health, Indigenous pedagogy, steel drums
June 20, 2025
University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 23-29.
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Campus road, lot closures planned for 2025 Midnight Sun Run
June 18, 2025
The Midnight Sun Run will begin at the University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks at 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 21. The UAF Police Department will close parts of campus to vehicle access before the race.
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UAF professor's work is a step toward elusive 'theory of everything'
June 18, 2025
Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks scientist. The theory also argues that time comes in three dimensions rather than just the single one we experience as continual forward progression. Space emerges as a secondary manifestation.
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Beneficial insects can help control garden pests
June 17, 2025
Not all insects are garden pests. In a free statewide webinar, learn which insects are natural enemies of pest bugs and therefore good friends for gardeners to cultivate. Joey Slowik, integrated pest management technician at the University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service in Palmer, will discuss potential insect friends, what they want and some ways to encourage them in your garden.
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Workshops to cover vegetable storage, greenhouse energy, accessibility
June 16, 2025
UAF Cooperative Extension Service agent and energy specialist Art Nash will guide a series of free workshops this month in Parks Highway communities on ways to keep produce fresh longer, commercial and residential energy options for greenhouses, and accessibility for farmers and gardeners with disabilities.
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Rainfall, melting permafrost change Interior òòò½´«Ã½ stream systems
June 13, 2025
The aquatic chemistry and flow rates in Interior òòò½´«Ã½'s streams are shifting in response to thawing permafrost and increased rainfall, a new study reports. The study authors found that groundwater makes up a greater portion of streamflow in areas with less permafrost.
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Week's events: Margo Klass, surgery advances, òòò½´«Ã½ Native elders aging, Juneteenth
June 13, 2025
University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting more than 40 free lectures, concerts and events this summer. Here's what's happening during the week of June 16-22.
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Grain at the Fairbanks Experiment Farm shrank over the past century
June 13, 2025
Grain grown on the University of òòò½´«Ã½ Fairbanks' experiment farm was much taller in 1916 than 2024. Jakir Hasan has a simple explanation. "People were a bit shorter," he joked. Hasan, a research assistant professor of plant genetics at UAF's Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension, said the shift to shorter grain actually resulted from breeding efforts that began in the mid-20th century.
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