The 51st annual Festival of Native Arts returns to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Troth Yeddha’ Campus from Feb. 27-March 1, 2025. The festival will feature three nights of performances, an artisan marketplace and hands-on cultural workshops — all free and open to the public. Since 1973, the Festival of Native Arts has provided […]
Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it were floodplains pocked with bogs and ponds that may have restricted passage of animals like the woolly rhino and short-faced bear. Those two species and a few others never seemed to […]
A new radar-based volcano monitoring system developed by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and U.S. Geological Survey will expand across the U.S. and beyond. The expansion, funded by NASA, could lead to earlier detection of volcanic unrest. The Alaska Volcano Observatory at UAF has been using a prototype of this system, named VolcSARvatory, since early 2022. Its […]
A recent poll of Alaskans found that the University of Alaska is the most trusted organization for the public on the topic of energy supply. The survey of 600 registered Alaska voters was conducted by Strategies 360, with a margin of error of 4%. The poll was commissioned, in part, to test Alaskans’ familiarity with carbon capture, […]