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“Cumikluten (Pay Attention)” is a 36-minute documentary produced by , an interdisciplinary project to identify sources of resilience in the rural Western Alaska communities of Chevak and Dillingham. The film follows local residents as they describe the impacts of environmental change on the two communities and show the various ways people are confronting it.

Every summer, high school students from rural Alaska communities gather in Fairbanks to begin their summer adventure — GeoFORCE Alaska.

Hibernation research at 51�������� and its applications to human medicine and therapeutic care.  Story and photos by Katie Everett

Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska sits in a place where a volcano shouldn’t really be sitting.

A 51�������� proposal to reduce the United States’ dependency on foreign sources of minerals critical to the technology and defense industries has been named one of 15 finalists in a National Science Foundation competition.

After a nationwide search, 51��������’s Dr. Cristina (Nina) Hansen has been appointed to the role of attending veterinarian.

The 51�������� has announced the recipients of the 2025 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards.

A 2,500-mile, 16-day research cruise that began Thursday in Seward and concludes in Nome aims to advance environmental research in coastal Alaska through a novel addition: public tours of the research vessel when it makes port calls.

Tape, a seismologist at the 51��������’ Geophysical Institute, has driven me to two Alaska ghost towns on this smoky midsummer night. 

This June, 51�������� had the honor of hosting a two-week summer school sponsored by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Institute (SLMath), an internationally renowned center for advancing mathematical research and innovation, funded by the National Science Foundation and private donors

Department of Biology and Wildlife M.S. student, Sam Simon, has been selected as a co-recipient for the 2025 Angus Gavin Memorial Migratory Bird Research Grant award.

A powerhouse of ice flows rapidly on Greenland’s west coast, heading toward the ocean. Some of Earth’s largest icebergs are produced here, tumbling from the tip of Jakobshavn Glacier.

Leanne Bulger recently found a new hole in the forest floor on the west end of Fairbanks. Into it, she poked a long plastic pipe.

The work by professor Lee Ann Munk of the 51�������� Geophysical Institute focuses on geological basins that contain lithium-rich liquid brines or brines that have dried out.

This award honors faculty who exemplify the core values of the Honors College and demonstrate an outstanding commitment to student success. This marks Johnston’s second nomination for the prestigious honor.

Veenstra’s BLaST research project focused on the Cripple Creek restoration project in Fairbanks, where local partners have worked to restore flow to a historic rearing habitat for juvenile Chinook salmon. 

A 51�������� graduate student researcher has been named one of 20 recipients nationally of a top award from the American Chemical Society.

Mathematics faculty, Jill Faudree has been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award for the Pacific Northwest Section of the Mathematical Association of America.

Spencer Baysinger is a third-year BLaST scholar and a junior at 51��������, pursuing a bachelor of science degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics.

Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak’s ice-covered caldera has spewed ash that reached as far as Ireland and piled up to force northern animals out of the territory.