Image: GeoFORCE Alaska students display their completed geologic maps of a portion of Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. The maps show rock types in different colors. Photo by Leif Van Cise Sixteen rural Alaska high school students will head into their senior year this fall with four years of geological fieldwork under their belts […]
Chickadees are interested in scents. That’s the news from a study out of Lehigh University, the first to document naturally hybridizing songbirds’ preference for the smell of their own species. Amber Rice, an evolutionary biologist at Lehigh, studies hybridization — when separate species come into contact and mate — to better understand how species originate […]
Air pollution — especially ozone air pollution which is increasing with climate change — accelerates the progression of emphysema of the lung, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. While previous studies have shown a clear connection of air pollutants with some heart and lung […]
Agreement Includes Multi-Year Step Down in Funding, Totaling Reductions of $70 Million Over Three Years (Anchorage, AK) – The University of Alaska and Alaska Governor Michael J. Dunleavy have reached an agreement on a multi-year compact that preserves $110 million in state funding for the university for Fiscal Year 2020, reducing UA’s budget by $25 […]