UAF Commencement May 13
UAF’s 90th graduation ceremony will be held at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks at 1 p.m., Sunday, May 13. The ceremony will be viewable via webcast during the ceremony. National Endowment for the Humanities chairman Jim Leach will give the keynote address. Graduating student Jordan Kathleen Culver will be the student speaker. Culver is a degree [more ...]
Chancellor and Russian Vice Rector renew relationship between universities
Chancellor Rogers and North-Eastern Federal University Vice Rector Mikail Yu Prisyazhny celebrate the renewal of a longstanding relationship between UAF and the former Sakha State University, recently established as one of eight Russian federal universities through reforms in the Russian Federation. A former exchange student to UAF, Prisyazhny currently serves as Vice Rector for Natural [more ...]
Administrative Services performance survey
April 24, 2012 TO: UAF Staff and Faculty FROM: Brian Rogers, UAF Chancellor SUBJECT: Administrative Services performance survey As part of my 2008 transition teams, a survey was conducted to assess the performance of UAF’s Administrative Services Division. A number of recommendations were made following that assessment. Vice Chancellor Pat Pitney joined UAF in October [more ...]
UAF logo usage
April 24, 2012 TO: Staff and faculty FROM: Brian Rogers, UAF Chancellor SUBJECT: UAF logo usage This morning, an email was circulated to a number of schools, colleges and departments regarding the consistent use of the UAF logo. In May of last year, I asked all UAF departments to use the version of the UAF [more ...]
Fittest Winner Competition off to a great start
As it is with any new endeavor, when we made the decision to launch the first ever Fittest Winner Competition, we had no idea what type of response we would get. We knew we had within the UAF family no shortage of faculty and staff who were game for a challenge and a little friendly [more ...]
ACEP’s new research facility opens
Chancellor Rogers, State Senator Lesil McGuire and Director Gwen Holdmann team up with other university and industry officials to cut a ribbon officially opening the Alaska Center for Energy and Power’s new research facility during a Feb. 15 ceremony. ACEP facilities include the Alaska Wind-Diesel Applications Center, Diesel Engine Test Bed and Alaska Hydrokinetic Energy [more ...]
UAF Spring 2012 Fittest Winner Competition
In an effort to help create a healthier campus community — and to have a little fun at the same time — I am pleased to announce the formation of the UAF Spring 2012 Fittest Winner Competition. Here’s how it works. Teams from across campus will compete against each other for a 10-week period beginning [more ...]
Accreditation success
I am extremely pleased to report that UAF received notification of reaffirmation from the commissioners of the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities on the basis of the Fall 2011 Comprehensive Evaluation. The commission made three recommendations based on their evaluation: The evaluation committee recommends that UAF coordinate its planning and evaluation processes of core [more ...]
Chancellor Rogers speaks on entrepreneurship
Chancellor Rogers addressed a meeting sponsored by the Associated Students of Business in Schaible Auditorium on the topic of entrepreneurship. Rogers spoke of his experience selling lemonade out of a Volkswagon van on the UAF campus back in the 1970s. ASB is a student organization encompassing all majors in the School of Management. The membership [more ...]
Dancing with the Cars fundraiser event
The chancellor‘s Dancing with the Cars gala fundraiser took place Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum. Those in attendance enjoyed music, dancing and antique autos. The event helped raise money for the UAF Center for Alaska Native Health Research student scholarships and Fairbanks Memorial Hospital’s J. Michael Carroll Cancer Center.
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