Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska sits in a place where a volcano shouldn’t really be sitting.

A University of Alaska Fairbanks proposal to reduce the United States’ dependency on foreign sources of minerals critical to the technology and defense industries has been named one of 15 finalists in a National Science Foundation competition.

After a nationwide search, UAF’s Dr. Cristina (Nina) Hansen has been appointed to the role of attending veterinarian.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has announced the recipients of the 2025 Emil Usibelli Distinguished Teaching, Research and Service Awards.

A 2,500-mile, 16-day research cruise that began Thursday in Seward and concludes in Nome aims to advance environmental research in coastal Alaska through a novel addition: public tours of the research vessel when it makes port calls.

Tape, a seismologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute, has driven me to two Alaska ghost towns on this smoky midsummer night. 

This June, UAF had the honor of hosting a two-week summer school sponsored by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Institute (SLMath), an internationally renowned center for advancing mathematical research and innovation, funded by the National Science Foundation and private donors

Department of Biology and Wildlife M.S. student, Sam Simon, has been selected as a co-recipient for the 2025 Angus Gavin Memorial Migratory Bird Research Grant award.

A powerhouse of ice flows rapidly on Greenland’s west coast, heading toward the ocean. Some of Earth’s largest icebergs are produced here, tumbling from the tip of Jakobshavn Glacier.

Leanne Bulger recently found a new hole in the forest floor on the west end of Fairbanks. Into it, she poked a long plastic pipe.

The work by professor Lee Ann Munk of the UAF Geophysical Institute focuses on geological basins that contain lithium-rich liquid brines or brines that have dried out.

This award honors faculty who exemplify the core values of the Honors College and demonstrate an outstanding commitment to student success. This marks Johnston’s second nomination for the prestigious honor.

Veenstra’s BLaST research project focused on the Cripple Creek restoration project in Fairbanks, where local partners have worked to restore flow to a historic rearing habitat for juvenile Chinook salmon. 

A University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student researcher has been named one of 20 recipients nationally of a top award from the American Chemical Society.

Mathematics faculty, Jill Faudree has been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award for the Pacific Northwest Section of the Mathematical Association of America.

Spencer Baysinger is a third-year BLaST scholar and a junior at UAF, pursuing a bachelor of science degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics.

Mount Churchill stands in a white corner of the Alaska map, deceptive in its cold, windblown silence. At least twice in the last few thousand years, the peak’s ice-covered caldera has spewed ash that reached as far as Ireland and piled up to force northern animals out of the territory.

A 620-mile portion of today’s Denali Fault were once a smaller united geologic feature indicative of the final joining of two land masses. That feature was then torn apart by millions of years of tectonic activity.

Newly published results from a 2021 experiment led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level processes that create the type of auroras that dance rapidly across the sky.

New research may reveal why some animals and humans crossed between continents, while others stayed put.

UAF was represented with more than 170 faculty, staff, and students at the American Geophysical Union meeting, in Washington, DC.

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and UAF scientists release the 2024 Arctic Report Card.

A four year research project will look at how high and low energy electrons affect the ionosphere.

BLaST is happy to announce that John Harley is selected as our BLaST Scientist of the Month for November 2024!

The university continues to support research investigating how agricultural initiatives play a role in supporting diverse food sources in Alaska and contribute to the state’s food system stability.

Scientists from Fairbanks, New Mexico and Japan have discovered the first reported fossilized tracks of a large four-toed bird that inhabited central Alaska 90 million to 120 million years ago.

Salmon and their finned brethren are a lot like Sunday drivers. They enjoy meandering in curved passages, stopping to rest in the shade and grabbing a bite to eat along their journey.