Inside Out showcases UAF’s Fairbanks campus

By Site administrator on March 28, 2011

The UAF Admissions counselors pose with a special friend March 25 after hosting prospective future UAF students and their parents during the annual InsideOut event on the Fairbanks campus. From left to right, back to front, are Carrie Coxon, Joe Alloway, Nanook, Mary Kreta, Chris Wheeler, Lael Oldmixon and Jessica Bennett.

Nearly 200 prospective students, families and chaperones from around the state had the opportunity to ask questions about academic programs, financial aid and student life as part of the annual InsideOut event on the Fairbanks campus March 25. Inside Out takes place once in the spring, summer and fall each year.

A small group of students provided feedback of their existing perceptions of UAF in a Marketing and Communications focus group over the lunch hour.

If you know prospective students who are interested in visiting UAF, please have them contact Carrie Coxen at cdcoxen@alaska.edu or have them fill out a campus visit request form.

Birch Tapping...

Okay - so this just caught my eye and I had to put it out there.

"The University of Alaska Fairbanks will offer a birch-tapping class Saturday, April 16tPublish Posth in Palmer.

The class will run from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Matanuska Experiment Farm. All equipment will be provided and the fee is $10.
The workshop is sponsored by the UAF School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences and UAF Cooperative Extension Service.
To sign up, contact Valerie Barber at 907-746-9466 or vabarber@alaska.edu." 

What I love about this posting is that this is so representative of the variety of really neat courses you can take through UAF or our extension programs. It's great to be a Nanook!

- Lael

Have you liked us on Facebook yet?

If not, you should! So much great news and information is shared through the UAF Facebook Page. Here's the address: http://www.facebook.com/uafairbanks.

Today's Facebook post of the day:

Alaska Summer Research Academy (ASRA)

The Alaska Summer Research Academy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will be accepting applications Feb. 14-28 for the 2011 academy.

ASRA is part of the UAF College of Natural Science and Mathematics. The academy provides hands-on, experiential learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields for students in middle and high school. Students attend one module for the entire two weeks. Classes are small, with eight students and two instructors. The ASRA staff includes UAF faculty members and graduate students, MIT instructors and industry professionals.

Highlights this year include:

* Sixteen residential modules, ranging from biomedicine to paleontology to “sounds of science”

* ASRA advanced module at the Kasitsna Bay Research Lab near Homer

* A new partnership with the Discover Design Research program at the University of Alaska Southeast provides an additional three modules.

* Ten full tuition and travel scholarships courtesy of New York Life for students in rural Alaska

* ASRA Jr., a new day program for students entering seventh and eighth grades

Applications will only be accepted Feb. 14 - 28, 2011. Visit www.uaf.edu/asra for more information.

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS:  Jeff Drake, ASRA director, at 907-474-7077 or jdrake@alaska.edu.

ON THE WEB: www.uaf.edu/asra

Nanooks to Feast on Seawolf Tacos

The rivalry between the Alaska Nanooks and the UAA Seawolves is never greater than during the Governor’s Cup hockey game. This year, the University of Alaska Fairbanks is kickin’ it up a notch by hosting a seawolf taco feed the night of the game in Fairbanks.
While the seawolf is the mascot for the University of Alaska Anchorage, it is also the common name for the edible Atlantic wolf fish. On Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 members of the community are invited to attend a seawolf taco feed. For more information: http://www.uafnews.com/headlines/nanooks-to-feast-on-seawolf-tacos.

College Admission Blog : College Guide and Search Advice: College Application Calender - Senior Year

I've been doing some quick browsing through www.colegeadmissionblog.com and thought you might find this link helpful (especially you seniors who are looking for guidance about where to start!). Juniors...start planning!

College Application Prep Plan for the Senior Year

College Admission Blog : College Guide and Search Advice: FAFSA Application for Financial Aid

I just read this great blog with information and tips about navigating the FAFSA. Check it out!

FAFSA Application for Financial Aid

Money! You want it?

Don't miss your chance to get it! 

It's FAFSA Time (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)!
  
JAN. 30...
College Goal Sunday
Kick off FAFSA season with College Goal Sunday! It's your chance to fill out the FAFSA with the experts there to help! Bring your parents!!

FEB. 1 - FEB 28...
UA's February FAFSA Frenzy

• The University hosts a month long FAFSA Frenzy to encourage you to complete your FAFSA in the month of February! 

FEB. 15...
UA Scholarship Deadline

Complete your application to any of the UA campuses and then apply for scholarships. We have a single application for hundreds of scholarships plus links to many more scholarships.

There are only 5 questions on the scholarship application, with one being a personal essay (no more than 500 words). What to write:

• We want to learn something about you.
• What do you plan to do/study/achieve at UAF?
• What achievements have you had in high school?
• Who has had an important influence on your life?  

Sometimes we receive only a couple of sentences and that just doesn't tell us enough about you...so PLEASE, use all 500 words!  

How to...

1. Apply for admission
2. Watch the video below and then apply for scholarships (it's that easy):



FAFSA Facts

• The FAFSA stands for FREE APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL STUDENT AID - if someone asks you to pay for it...you're at the wrong site. Go to www.fafsa.gov for details on how to complete the FAFSA. 
• The FAFSA is the application for the new Alaska Performance Scholarship.
• If your parents have completed their taxes electronically, they can automatically load their tax information into their FAFSA anytime after January 30th.
• If your parents won't be completing their taxes soon, they can still complete the FAFSA with information from their W-2's, and 1099's or use last year's taxes as an estimate.
• The form continues to become simpler to use and faster to complete.

Former UAF Professor Partners with Rosetta Stone

Former UAF Professor Edna MacLean joined forces with Rosetta Stone to create a program that teaches the North Slope Inupiaq dialect of the Inuit language. With only 1,500 people fluent speakers of Inupiaq left, the once predominant language of Northern Alaska could become extinct in as little as one or two generations. This program, a part of Rosetta Stone's endangered language program, will be distributed by NANA Corporation and the North Slope Borough to schools, shareholders, and families in the region as a way to ensure the next generation of children do not lose the language and a vital component of their culture.

To learn more, read the article Alaska natives team with Rosetta Stone in the Seattle Times.

Reflections on 2010

I thought you might enjoy this amazing slide show of photos from 2010 which were taken by Todd Paris, the university photographer. I think the photos do well to capture life here on campus and in Alaska.