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Tickets available for ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Leader of Year event
August 07, 2025
Tickets are on sale for the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ College of Business and Security Management's 47th Business Leader of the Year dinner and award ceremony, honoring Patty Mongold, Mt. McKinley Bank's CEO.
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Free tool helps small communities pick renewable energy sources
August 07, 2025
A free tool developed by a ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ researcher can help communities with small-scale power grids plan for different energy resources.
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Learn the step-by-step process of saving garden seeds
August 06, 2025
Join Kristin Haney, director of Growing Ester's Biodiversity Seed Library, for a free statewide Zoom webinar on saving seeds from your garden.
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Petersburg youths can learn to cook garden-fresh dishes
August 06, 2025
Middle and high school students are invited to a free Cooking (in) the Garden series at the Petersburg School and Community Garden. Students will make various savory and sweet recipes using items harvested directly from the garden and greenhouse.
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Research shows early quake warning system could provide critical seconds
August 05, 2025
A proposed earthquake early warning system could have provided several Alaska communities an alert of 10 seconds or more ahead of strong shaking from the magnitude 7.3 quake that occurred south of Sand Point near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula in mid-July.
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NextGen students to give overview of summer internships
August 04, 2025
This summer, 14 ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ students participated in the NextGen Internship Program, which is designed to introduce students to food and agricultural careers. Learn about their experiences during a free statewide webinar hosted by the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Cooperative Extension Service on Wednesday, Aug. 13, from 4-6 p.m.
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Currants, once banned, are having a revival
August 01, 2025
Currants were banned in the United States for 55 years, but are now an emerging berry crop around the country, including Alaska. Join Lily Hislop, the currant and elderberry breeder for the Savanna Institute, in a free webinar as she explains why currants were banned, how that ban was lifted and the berries' future.
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Week's events: Nicky Eiseman, daily exercise, Indigenizing research, jazz
August 01, 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 Aug. 4-10.
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The war within the aspen leaves
August 01, 2025
On one of the friendliest platforms imaginable, a ferocious battle rages. While mowing its way through the surface of a trembling leaf, an aspen leaf miner meets one of its kind. Instead of offering a nuzzle of recognition, the tiny caterpillar tears into the other with its sickle-like mouthparts, while trying to avoid a fatal gash from the other.
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ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ satellite facility to manage massive NASA data surge
July 31, 2025
Years of preparation by the Alaska Satellite Facility will ensure that a flood of freely available data from a NASA-India satellite mission that launched Wednesday will be easy for the global public to use.
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Policy brief proposes changes to Yukon River salmon management
July 30, 2025
A group of Indigenous leaders, scientists and policy experts have proposed management actions to promote recovery of Yukon River salmon and manage their harvest more equitably.
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Webinar covers the basic methods of food preservation
July 28, 2025
Get the most out of the food you have grown, harvested or bought during a free one-hour overview of food preservation methods. Attendees will learn how to extend the life of their food using a variety of preservation methods, including refrigeration, root cellars, pickling, fermenting, making jams and jellies, dehydrating, boiling water canning and pressure canning.
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ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Day at the fair scheduled for July 29
July 25, 2025
ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ will host ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Day at the Tanana Valley State Fair on Tuesday, July 29. ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ employees, students, alumni and friends will receive $1 off admission by wearing ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ apparel or showing their PolarExpress card. The day will include ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ activities throughout the fairgrounds.
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Week's events: Stan Justice, starving cancer, Dene astronomy, bagpipes
July 25, 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 28-Aug. 3.
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Kachemak Bay otters' behavior seems unaffected by oyster farms
July 25, 2025
The growing Kachemak Bay mariculture industry and a booming population of local sea otters appear to have a surprisingly uneventful relationship, according to a new ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ study. The study, published recently in The Journal of Wildlife Management, focused on otters around a handful of oyster farms in the area, comparing their actions to otters that were foraging in nearby control areas without farming. During hundreds of hours of observations, otters weren't seen eating any oysters and the presence of mariculture operations didn't appear to have a notable effect on their behavior.
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