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Week's events: Mike Thomas, chronic pain, urban muskoxen, alt-bluegrass

July 02, 2025

ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ 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 July 7-13.

Campers cook with ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ greenhouse produce

July 01, 2025

Budding chefs got a taste of science this June. Students in two cooking camps at the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ used tomatoes grown during research into greenhouse productivity.

Chukchi Consortium Library to close Sept. 1

June 30, 2025

The Chukchi Consortium Library in Kotzebue will close permanently on Sept. 1, 2025. The ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Chukchi Campus has operated the library with local contributions from the Northwest Arctic Borough since 2010. ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ made the decision to close the library due to declining state and local funding.

Museum offers behind-the-scenes tours

June 27, 2025

The University of Alaska 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.

Week's events: Randy Zarnke, progressive rock

June 27, 2025

ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ 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.

Natural changes only part of the story

June 26, 2025

Last week, I sent out a story on changes in Alaska 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.

Learn about the health benefits of Alaska berries

June 25, 2025

Registered dietitian and ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Cooperative Extension Service agent Leslie Shallcross will discuss the potential health benefits of eating Alaska's berries in a free statewide webinar.

Planetarium construction begins, Murdock Trust joins project

June 24, 2025

Construction has begun on a new 65-seat planetarium at the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½.

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.

Change is the state of Alaska

June 20, 2025

With its melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and floating sea ice that gets tougher to see from its northern shores each summer, Alaska is the poster state for global warming. Things are changing here, no doubt about it. But it's not the first time.

Week's events: Mary Ann Borchert, Foundation Health, Indigenous pedagogy, steel drums

June 20, 2025

ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ 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.

Campus road, lot closures planned for 2025 Midnight Sun Run

June 18, 2025

The Midnight Sun Run will begin at the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ at 10 p.m. on Saturday, June 21. The ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Police Department will close parts of campus to vehicle access before the race.

ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ 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 ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ 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.

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 ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Cooperative Extension Service in Palmer, will discuss potential insect friends, what they want and some ways to encourage them in your garden.

Workshops to cover vegetable storage, greenhouse energy, accessibility

June 16, 2025

ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ 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.

Rainfall, melting permafrost change Interior Alaska stream systems

June 13, 2025

The aquatic chemistry and flow rates in Interior Alaska'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.

Week's events: Margo Klass, surgery advances, Alaska Native elders aging, Juneteenth

June 13, 2025

ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ 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.