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What's new with AI: Drop-in discussion
February 03, 2025
Join this event on the third Thursday of every month from 1-2 p.m. to chat with CTL instructional designers and other faculty about recent advances and best practices in generative artificial intelligence and the best practices surrounding its applications to higher education.
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February 03, 2025
Ideation Studio is a series of hands-on workshops intended to help researchers, faculty, staff, and students work together to solve Alaska challenges across silos. Participants automatically qualify to apply for up to $20,000 in seed funding.
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Visiting scholar sessions for UAF instructors
February 03, 2025
Kevin Gannon is the director of the Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence and professor of history at Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. Gannon will offer three programs for UAF instructors on Feb. 26-27.
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Developing critical thinking through problem-based learning
February 03, 2025
In a previous teaching tip, we explored the benefits of a place-based learning approach. This time, we’ll dive into another PBL: Problem-based learning. While place-based learning helps students connect more deeply with content by relating it to their local context, a benefit that can also be a part of problem-based learning, the true strength of problem-based learning lies in its emphasis on developing and practicing critical thinking skills.
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February 03, 2025
Join the Center for Teaching Team as we explore tools to enhance your classroom. This semester, we have sessions with Hypothesis, VoiceThread, Gradescope, and more. These tools can help make your teaching more effective and engaging. Join the next workshop, Introduction to VoiceThread, on Monday, Feb. 3 at 11 a.m.
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CTC culinary program delivers award-winning soup and service
January 31, 2025
The UAF Community and Technical College's culinary arts and hospitality program won the 2025 Golden Ladle at the Soup Off, a fundraiser for Bread Line, a Fairbanks nonprofit fighting hunger. Students gain hands-on experience through events like Borealis Bistro, the CTC food truck, culinary camps, and the HooDoo Choo Choo train ride, while actively serving the Fairbanks community.
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January 31, 2025
The UAF Bookstore will be closed on Monday, Feb. 17 for inventory. It will reopen Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 9 a.m.
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Friday Focus: From believing to achieving
January 31, 2025
Former president Theodore Roosevelt once said "Believe you can and you're halfway there." As encouraging (and true!) as those words are, being halfway there can be a difficult place to be. We are in the midst of institutional transformation at UAF. We have big goals at UAF, and I believe they are within reach. Increasing enrollment, establishing a welcoming Main Street, achieving R1, and building the Troth Yeddha' Indigenous Studies Center. It's exciting stuff! But it's going to take hard work, optimism, and creativity to get us past the halfway point - from believing to achieving.
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Limited submission funding opportunity
January 31, 2025
The Vice Chancellor for Research is soliciting white papers for the NSF 25-521: Materials Innovation Platforms call for proposals. UAF may submit 1 proposal for $18,000,000 to $30,000,000 over a six-year period. White papers are due Feb. 5, 2025.
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Free statistical consulting for spring 2025
January 31, 2025
Need help analyzing your data? The Department of Mathematics and Statistics faculty and students in the M.S. in Statistics program offer free statistical consulting to students, faculty, and staff, as well as members of the community.
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Writing Center opens semester with graduate student support
January 31, 2025
A valuable resource is available to your students: the UAF Writing Center. The team is here to support students with their writing in any course at any stage, whether they’re brainstorming, drafting, or revising. Beyond one-on-one tutoring, the center also offers tools like style guides and free printing.
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Sign up for Kids2Careers Postsecondary and Career Prep Panel
January 31, 2025
Help inspire young Alaskans to pursue postsecondary education and career training. Volunteer 1-hour and share your personal postsecondary and career pathway experiences and advice as part of a 3-5 person Kids2Careers Postsecondary and Career Prep Panel.
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Last chance to register for non-credit pickleball, knitting classes
January 31, 2025
Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning has a few openings in the Knitting for the Beginner and Introduction to Pickleball non-credit courses for adults. Register today!
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Save the date: Graduation Gear-Up
January 29, 2025
The Class of 2025 Graduation Gear-Up is scheduled for Feb. 6 from 4-6 p.m. in the Wood Center Ballroom. Get info about commencement, win prizes and celebrate!
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BLaST celebrates January 2025 Scientist of the Month
January 29, 2025
Sable Scotton, a third-year BLaST scholar and a junior at UAF earning a BS degree in Wildlife Biology and Conservation, is the BLaST Scientist of the Month for January 2025! Scotton is also a UAF Honors student and Climate Scholar and is interested in ecological contaminants and their effects on wildlife and people.
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Invitation for Alaska Sea Grant preproposals
January 27, 2025
Alaska Sea Grant invites preliminary proposals for research projects to be conducted between February 2026 and January 2028. Preproposals are due by Wednesday, Feb. 5 at 5 p.m.
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February Development spotlight: Elevate your career
January 27, 2025
For February, the UA HR Talent Acquisition and Development Team presents two collections focused on career development, advancement, and mobility to help you enhance your career or assist in coaching the growth of your staff.
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January 27, 2025
UAF CHP is having a sweetheart of a tour for February's First Friday plant tour on Feb. 7 at 1:30 p.m. See how we keep the campus warm and well-lit! RSVP to reserve your place for the tour.
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Kevin Gannon: Visiting scholar
January 27, 2025
On Feb. 26 and 27, Kevin Gannon will visit the UAF Troth Yeddha' campus to deliver a public lecture on how educators whose identities come from culturally dominant and privileged places might encounter, and embrace, a decolonizing practice for teaching and learning.
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Collins resigns from Graduate School position
January 24, 2025
Dr. Rich Collins has announced his resignation as the director of the UAF Graduate School and his intention to return to a tenured faculty position.
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Friday Focus: Bright start to 2025
January 24, 2025
Happy New Year and happy new spring semester! Although the Arctic chill could arrive again at any time, the warm weather and beautiful snowy conditions are making our entry into 2025 one for the books. I hope everyone was able to enjoy a restful winter break and return ready to hit the ground running. It is always a pleasure to see students returning to campus, eager to make a final push through to May's graduation celebration.
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Faculty and staff appreciation basketball doubleheader
January 24, 2025
UAF faculty and staff get in free with a Polar Express ID to the Nanooks Women's and Men's Basketball doubleheader on Thursday, Jan. 30 in the Patty Center. Women tip off at 5:15 p.m. and men start at 7:30 p.m.
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Lisa Slaba new executive assistant and advisor to the chancellor
January 24, 2025
Lisa Slaba has been hired as the new executive assistant and advisor to the chancellor. In this role, Slaba reports directly to Chancellor Daniel White and provides in-depth assistance to the chancellor on the administration and operations of UAF.
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Good course design the best defense against cheating
January 24, 2025
While the prevalence of academic misconduct is debatable and uncertain, its existence is not. Courses can be designed proactively to reduce cheating, plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct.
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Workshop series: Parenting unfiltered
January 24, 2025
This new workshop series is designed to equip parents and other caregivers of children with knowledge, tools, and empathetic approaches for discussing sensitive topics with children and teens. Workshops occur on the second Thursday of the month January through June from 11 a.m. to noon.
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