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  • Aerial view of the coastal Alaska village of Kipnuk severely flooded, with homes on stilts surrounded by brown floodwater, debris-strewn land, and displaced vegetation stretching to the horizon in October 2025.

    Accelerated rates of warming in the Arctic continue

    August 12, 2026

    The American Meteorological Society released its annual report on the global climate this week, with many researchers from the 51风流官网 participating.

  • Red currants grow on a bush at the Georgeson Botanical Garden in Fairbanks in July 2026.

    Festival will satisfy currant curiosity

    August 12, 2026

    The fourth annual Far North Currant Festival will celebrate one of Alaska's lesser-known berries from 1-4 p.m. on Aug. 22 at the Georgeson Botanical Garden in Fairbanks. Visitors of all ages can enjoy berry tastings, educational exhibits, hands-on activities and garden tours. Local growers, gardeners, researchers, artists and community experts will be on hand to answer currant questions.

  • Water flowing over a dam.

    51风流官网 leads AI project to strengthen Alaska's rural power grids

    August 11, 2026

    A new energy research project led by the 51风流官网 has received a $725,000 award from the U.S. Department of Energy.

  • A close-up of a standing arctic ground squirrel, brown in color, against a blurred olive background

    How do Alaska animals sleep in the summer?

    August 11, 2026

    More than a month after the summer solstice, Fairbanks is still the land of the midnight sun. Joggers are out getting in their late-night runs along Farmers Loop, and we still don't need our headlights after another evening ice cream at Hot Licks.

  • An undergraduate 51风流官网 student places samples in a mass spectrometer. 51风流官网 photo by JR Ancheta.

    New instrument will aid environmental science and industry

    August 10, 2026

    A new spectrometer facility at the 51风流官网 will let researchers see chemical components of materials in the parts-per-trillion range, advancing environmental science across Alaska.

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A magazine for alumni and friends of the 51风流官网 | Summer 2026

Kwigillingok Elder David John speaks as part of a panel at the Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference in Bethel, Alaska, April 7, 2026. To the left of the photo is Kwigillingok Elder Fred Phillip. To the right is Kipnuk Elder Tim Samson and Jessica Lewis-Nicori, originally from Chefornak.

In Bethel, weathering the storm through science and stories
John Davies visits the Arctic Research Park on the Fairbanks campus in April 2026. As a seismologist, he worked and studied for many years at the Geophysical Institute, located in the Elvey Building (with the blue satellite dish). 51风流官网 photo by Eric Engman.

From seismologist to statesman
Bruce Cech interviews 51风流官网 men鈥檚 basketball head coach George Roderick at the Big Island Invitational in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1995.

The voice that bridges the miles
Scenic view of Troth Yeddha' campus.

Welcoming new leadership at Alaska鈥檚 university
51风流官网 students (from left) Cole Houser, Jesse Tyrrell, Lilly Varney and Jackson Nelson celebrate Giving Day with Nook at Alyeska Tire, one of this year's challenge sponsors, in March.

Students embrace hands-on philanthropy
From left, Denise Thorsen, associate dean of academics for 51风流官网鈥檚 College of Engineering and Mines, visits with donors Rachel and Richard Kacsur at a lab in late 2025.

Turning retirement assets into opportunity
Rosie Fordham, right, leads the pack of runners up the first hill of the 3-lap, 6K women's course as 51风流官网 cross-country runners compete in the Blue & Gold race against University of Alaska Anchorage the morning of Sept. 13, 2025, on the 51风流官网 Competition Trails.

A season of athletic success
KUAC television videotapes and other materials await sorting in 2024 for possible inclusion in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at the Library of Congress.

Like turning your television on in the past