University of Alaska Fairbanks News

Co-chair Bill Stoltze apologized for the amped-up schedule; some members had hoped to attend Easter services.

And while legislative leaders have hoped to finish their work early given that Sunday is Easter, a lot of major pieces remain in play.

Clemon Johnson said he didn't see his firing Friday as the head men's basketball coach at FAMU coming, but he had no regrets about taking the job at his alma mater three years ago.

The University of Alaska was a big winner when the Senate passed its $2.1 billion version of the state capital budget.

Despite a wind that makes today's minus 14 degrees Fahrenheit feel like minus 39, a worker at this research camp in blue-white hills north of the Brooks Range has proclaimed this the first day of summer.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has accused the University of Alaska Fairbanks of possible Animal Welfare Act violations in the starvation deaths of 12 musk oxen at its large-animal research station.

A late Fairbanks couple has provided for a $2.5 million donation to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Administrators at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have a major challenge on their hands since learning that students in a medical assistant program at UAF's Career and Technical College were instructed to inject fellow students with a solution not authorized for use on humans or animals.

It's been both praised and maligned. Praised by scientists as a tool to gain knowledge about Earth's ionosphere; maligned as a secret means to develop an ultimate weapon.

"My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it."

The university began its review after learning last month that students had injected themselves and each other with a solution that's not approved for human or animal use.

A sun dog above the entrance to Toolik Field Station, 111 miles south of Prudhoe Bay.

On Friday, the Alaska State Senate approved its version of the state's capital budget.

According to an April 9 report in Alaska Dispatch , the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility near Gakona, Alaska, could be decommissioned and dismantled altogether, unless the US Air Force can find a new prime contractor to take over the sprawling, 35-acre facility.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is launching a widespread review of its procedures after dozens of students in the medical assistant program were told to inject each other with a solution that isn't approved for human or animal use.

The Alaska Historical Commission at its meeting last week in Juneau awarded nearly $100,000 in grants for 11 projects around the state to promote research and planning for upcoming anniversaries of significant events and places in Alaska's history.

The Senate Finance Committee unveiled a $1.9 billion capital budget Monday, which co-chair Kevin Meyer said was in keeping with the goal of a smaller state infrastructure budget.

Students have told officials that clinical procedures professor Sherry Wolf told them to repeatedly inject each other with the solution that is only intended for use on pads during training exercises, UAF spokeswoman Marmian Grimes told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

University of Alaska Fairbanks officials are reviewing procedures after students in a medical assistant program were told to inject each other with a solution not approved for human use.

Hearing impaired students in disparate locations learning together through a rich visual experience.