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New tools help fight wildfire with satellite imagery
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New tools from satellite images are helping locate wildfires and forecast weather to protect firefighters.
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Teaching Tip: Guide ³ÉÈËӰƬ through your course
A few well-placed visuals, like a course calendar or course map, may help ³ÉÈËӰƬ better navigate your course. Here's how to create your own.
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Here's how to shake off a hacking
Face it: Hackers gonna hack. Here are some ways to know that you've been hacked and, if so, what to do about it, courtesy of the UA Office of Information Technology.
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From fish waste to Fido snacks
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Chris Sannito’s dog Sammy is really happy that his owner has developed a tasty pet treat made out of pollock skins. Informal taste tests by Sammy and other Kodiak canines indicate the treats — although not fishy smelling to humans — have plenty of that deep-sea essence dogs love so much.
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Students make satellite facility data accessible
Three undergraduate student employees of the ³ÉÈËӰƬ Satellite Facility, a unit of the University of ³ÉÈËӰƬ Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, are collaborating to make satellite data more accessible.
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Featured photo of the week
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This Francis Ortega peony, photographed July 5, is one of many blooming at the Georgeson Botanical Garden on the Fairbanks campus.
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High summer along the pipeline’s path
It's high summer, past the solstice. Everything is alive here on the path of the trans-³ÉÈËӰƬ pipeline.
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Week's events: Art interviews, emergency medicine, Denali park, traditional bluegrass
University of ³ÉÈËӰƬ Fairbanks Summer Sessions and Lifelong Learning is hosting nearly 50 free lectures, concerts and other events this summer. Here is what’s happening during the week of July 9-15.
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Tom Kuhn is BLaST scientist of the month
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Thomas Kuhn, an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is the Biomedical Learning and Student Training program's scientist of the month.
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Food safety class offered Aug. 1
July 18 is the deadline to register for a certified food protection manager training offered Aug. 1 by videoconference in six ³ÉÈËӰƬ communities. The Cooperative Extension Service will host the workshop, which will meet 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. in Fairbanks, Delta Junction, Palmer, Valdez, Juneau and Sitka.
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Book chronicles Russia-³ÉÈËӰƬ citizen diplomacy after Cold War
The University of ³ÉÈËӰƬ Press has released "Melting the Ice Curtain: The Extraordinary Story of Citizen Diplomacy on the Russia-³ÉÈËӰƬ Frontier," by David Ramseur.
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³ÉÈËӰƬ Cornerstone
The Cornerstone staff and faculty newsletter is produced by University Relations and emailed to employees each Wednesday.
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The deadline for submitting to Cornerstone is Tuesdays and noon.
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