University of Alaska Fairbanks News

Matthew Christian was appointed to the Fairbanks District Court. Christian has served as magistrate and master in Kenai since 2007.

U.S. sailors clear ice from the hatch of the USS Connecticut submarine after it surfaced in the Arctic Ocean, March 19, 2011.

An anonymous reader writes "New research suggests that the amount of methane being released from Siberian permafrost is much larger than previously thought.

In this photo provided by the University of Alaska, from left, researcher Bill Schneider of the University of Alaska Fairbanks oral history program, records a conversation with Charlie Campbell, Ronnie Evans and Knut Kielland as they talk about a potentiality dangerous section of ice in the Tanana River.

Bezek Durst Seiser is proud to announce recognition by the American Institute of Architects Alaska Chapter, for the design of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Murie Building and the Design of Access Alaska's Anchorage Office in the 2013 Design Awards for Excellence in Architecture.

Ounce for ounce, methane has an effect on global warming more than 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide, and it's leaking from the Arctic Ocean at an alarming rate, according to new research by scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks .

A professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is demanding an independent investigation about two complaints she filed alleging sexual harassment by the school's student newspaper.

Laura Prugh knew she shouldn't bother trying to trap kangaroo rats in the California desert on nights when the moon was shining.

A fraternity is hosting a "Mr. UAF" beauty pageant for men next month at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The East Siberian Arctic Shelf is venting at least 17 teragrams of the methane into the atmosphere each year.

But Sitka Fire Chief Dave Miller said not to take the map as the final word on how high the water might rise in a tsunami.

The Arctic methane time bomb is bigger than scientists once thought and primed to blow, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Laura Prugh knew she shouldn't bother trying to trap kangaroo rats in the California desert on nights when the moon was shining.

Local high school and college students, training groups and others helped trail groomers at Birch Hill Recreation Area.

According to a biography provided in a release from the governor's office, Christian has previously worked in Fairbanks as an assistant district attorney.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks will commemorate the date with a public event at Rasmuson Library.

The UA Board of Regents approved varying tuition increases by an 8-2 vote for the 2015 academic year, which begins in fall 2014, during a Nov. 6 meeting in Anchorage.

Hello, Mr. President. Have we got a deal for you. It's spelled relief. As in health care, relief from the pain, and clearly, you are in discomfort over the dismal rollout of Obamacare.

In a story published in Thursday's Daily News, University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Douglas Dasher was quoted as saying that he was concerned about the lack of monitoring of radiation in debris plumes emanating from the disabled Fukushima reactors in Japan.

According to the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the aurora is a luminous glow of the upper atmosphere, caused by energetic particles that enter the atmosphere from above.