University of Alaska Fairbanks News

The University of Alaska Fairbanks , the US, is looking for collaborative arrangement with city engineering colleges, in which students can have a common engineering degree and an opportunity to study for two years in Pune and two years at UAF.

Alaska probably will see most of its surface permafrost vanish by the end of this century, but researchers believe vast areas of frozen soil will remain deeper underground even as air temperatures increase.

FAIRBANKS a ' A Bethel man was sentenced Friday to perform 160 hours of community service for burglarizing dorm rooms last year.

Alaska will probably see most of its surface permafrost vanish by the end of this century, but researchers believe vast areas of frozen soil will remain deeper underground even as air temperatures increase.

Bob Banghart of Juneau has been named chief curator of the Alaska State Museums, Education Commissioner Larry LeDoux announced this week.

Fish and shellfish will soon get more protection from mercury and other toxins in the atmosphere that end up in US waters.

We are losing daylight by the minute every day. It is an inextricable part of life in Alaska.

Glaciers crowning Africa's tallest mountain could disappear within decades. Brian Vastag Remnant of the Eastern Ice Field as seen 2000.

UBC graduate journalism students Heba Elasaad, Krysi Collyer and Blake Sifton and professor Dan McKinney shoot documentary footage about e-waste in Ghana.

The University of Alaska Board of Regents will meet in Fairbanks on Friday to review a tentative $820 million system-wide operating budget.

Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayoral candidate Tammie Wilson greets people and hands out literature while campaigning along Riverview Drive Wednesday, October 21, 2009.

NIH Director's Council of Public Representatives Welcomes Six New Members to the Next Meeting, October 30, 2009, in Bethesda, Md.

Some of the salad that University of Alaska Fairbanks students munch on this winter will have a surprising birthplace - just a few hundred yards away from the Lola Tilly Commons.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is hosting the 2nd Annual Teaching and Research Open House in conjunction with the American Chemical Societya s National Chemistry Week .

Recently a few biologists at the Alaska Bird Observatory made an observation about our autumn.

Like herds of northern cattle that lived on tundra plants, more than 600,000 reindeer ranged over Alaska less than a century ago.

Veteran journalist David Offer will discuss the future of newspapers during a free public lecture Thursday.

The two remaining candidates for mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough have gathered an array of endorsements leading up to the Nov.

A study that looks at the Arctic's role in absorbing carbon dioxide finds that the job of storing CO2 could be over in coming decades and the Arctic may become an emitter of carbon dioxide and methane.

U.S. scientists say they've determined the arctic traps up to 25 percent of the net global carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide.