Northrim Bank and its affiliate, Residential Mortgage, have established an endowed scholarship with a $100,000 donation to the University of Alaska Foundation in memory of Chris Knudson. Knudson died Sept. 13, 2013, after a lengthy battle against cancer. The scholarship will be available for UA students majoring in accounting beginning in ...

The University of Alaska Board of Regents will vote on tuition rates and next year’s budget when it gathers Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lee Gorsuch Commons on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus. Members of the public may testify in person at approximately ...

An electrical fault knocked power offline at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for about an hour Tuesday morning and created smoky conditions on lower campus. The fault happened at about 9 a.m., as an electrical contractor was working on upgrades at the campus’ new switch house, which is near the main ...

University of Alaska Southeast Chancellor John Pugh and Yukon College President Karen Barnes met Saturday morning to sign an agreement that the schools will collaborate on programs and courses of study in the coming years. The meeting was a part of the Juneau World Affairs Council’s Al-Can Summit at UAS. ...

The University of Alaska’s longest-serving member on its Board of Regents, Mary K. Hughes of Anchorage, has been appointed to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), the country’s premier authority on higher-education governance. She is the first Alaskan to serve on this national board. “Ms. Hughes brings ...

The University of Alaska’s longest-serving member on its Board of Regents, Mary K. Hughes of Anchorage, has been appointed to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), the country’s premier authority on higher-education governance. She is the first Alaskan to serve on this national board. “Ms. Hughes brings ...

Tess Forstner, a junior at UAA, spent her Alaska summer dressed in Xtratufs, wading through wetlands on a quest for chicks. Boreal birds, actually. She also wrangled a couple dozen volunteers who were willing to tromp through their backyard wetlands in Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley to monitor target species—Lesser ...

The University of Alaska College Savings Plan is expanding its efforts of underwriting important youth-oriented organizations statewide by sponsoring the Fairbanks Children’s Museum. The four-year sponsorship, announced during the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce luncheon Tuesday, recognizes the complementary missions of the children’s museum and the college savings plan--cultivating a love ...

EUGENE, Ore. --  The University of Oregon continues to climb in the annual results of the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings announced today. The UO ranking -- no. 53 among 173 ranked public research universities, and no. 109, along with two other institutions, on the list of “Best National ...

Poet and writer Peggy Shumaker will launch the 2013-2014 Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series with a free public reading Friday, Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the University of Alaska Museum of the North auditorium. Shumaker will be reading from her most recent poetry collection, “Toucan Nest: Poems of Costa Rica.” ...

University of Alaska President Pat Gamble has hired longtime human resources professional and adjunct professor Erik Seastedt from the State University of New York (SUNY) to serve as the UA System’s chief human resources officer. Seastedt will start the job Sept. 16, replacing interim officer Michelle Rizk, who also serves as ...

Even though the Stamey family has lived in other locations around the world, their hearts were always tied to 20 Mile Farm. After residing in India, Saudi Arabia and the Pribilof Islands in Alaska, Roy Stamey, Joyce Hannan and their daughter Mackenzie Stamey are now happily ensconced at their farm ...

Summer may mean lighter class schedules and easier parking at UAA, but the science never stops. Last week, nine undergraduate students from around the U.S. presented their research—everything from differences in seal muscle fibers to the possible survival of microorganisms on Mars—and fielded questions from an interested crowd in the ...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host a free public lecture on the new health insurance marketplace in Alaska Tuesday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Murie Building on the UAF West Ridge. Susan Johnson, the Region 10 director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will speak ...

School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences faculty members will be teaching a three-day workshop on smoking fish Aug. 28 – 30 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Kodiak Seafood and Marine Science Center. “We are teaching the basics,” said Brennan Smith, one of four workshop instructors. “Smoking seafood safely and effectively, ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — The idea that glaciers change at a glacial speed is increasingly false. They are melting and retreating rapidly all over the world. But the unpredictable flood surges at the Mendenhall Glacier, about 14 miles from downtown Juneau, Alaska’s capital, are turning a jog into a sprint as ...

Just about a year ago, headlines in Alaska and across the country reported the fate of a baby beluga, a young male just two to three days old, found alone near Naknek in Bristol Bay. Observers surmised a storm had separated the 110-pound baby from its mother. With permission from NOAA, ...

The University of Alaska Foundation announces the availability of the Ted Stevens EADS Scholarship. The scholarship is available to dependents of current, former or deceased members of the Alaska National Guard or United States Coast Guard who are currently stationed in Alaska or were stationed in Alaska at the time ...