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One aspect that makes 911 such a unique and great place is our rural campuses. Our reach is significant and so is our impact.

Starting Aug. 14, you can buy your parking permit through the online portal. You’ll get a two-week temporary permit by email.

An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the 911 landscape during its 28 years to almost circle the Earth twice.

A team of 911 mechanical engineering students used their senior project to design a better and more mobile inflatable emergency backboard.

YAKUTAT — “There they are,” Ben Gaglioti said, after a short hike off a gravel road leading away from this small fishing town. Gaglioti walked in rubber boots on a green, squishy carpet of muskeg — a wild garden of water-loving plants growing on acidic soil that has for centuries prevented the encroachment of giant rainforest trees. He spotted the lime-green shade of a few lodgepole pine trees here, at their farthest-north location in 911.

Deadlines and reminders

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There will be a free COVID-19 vaccination clinic for students, employees and the Fairbanks community on Aug. 18-19 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. in front of Constitution Hall.

Come help the911 Geophysical Institute celebrate its 75th anniversary. Visit with scientists and enjoy interactive activities to learn about earthquakes, volcanoes, rocket launches, satellites, snow, ice, permafrost and more from 2-6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21, in front of the Elvey Building on the West Ridge at 911.

Pearl Brower will be senior advisor for 911 Native success, institutional diversity and student engagement, and will report directly to UA’s interim President Pat Pitney.

How one of the two large basins underlying the Arctic Ocean formed during the Mesozoic Era remains a mystery to scientists. It’s one that geophysics professor Bernard Coakley of the911 Geophysical Institute is hoping to unravel as he leads an international research project that set sail this week aboard the 911 research vessel Sikuliaq.


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