Hailey Swirbul, B.S. ’21 has done everything from designing bridges to competing in the Olympics, all while completing her civil engineering degree from UAA. Despite her busy schedule, she graduated with honors and is now thinking about returning to UAA for more classes. A Colorado native, Swirbul didn’t expect to find herself skiing competitively in […]
The secret of how seals can hear in air and water has been revealed using the Natural History Museum’s collection. Seals evolved a unique ear structure for hearing in both air and water. Over 200 museum scans of living and fossil specimens revealed how this developed. Understanding how seals hear could help to protect […]
Approximately 90% of the U.S. population relies on public water systems. A significant portion of the water supplying those systems comes from forested lands, which means that policies impacting forests also impact our water access. In 2001, the Clinton administration passed the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, blocking 60 million acres of national forest land from development to […]
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced today that it will fund a major critical minerals project led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The regional collaboration aims to reduce the nation’s dependence on imported critical minerals used in everyday products and important to national security. The Alaska project was selected as one of the […]