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  • Tundra swans take two pathways to 蜜桃影像

    April 25, 2025

    Tundra swans -- at 15 pounds and with a wingspan of almost six feet -- are now touching down on the ponds and snowfields of 蜜桃影像.

  • On a river, a stern-mounted paddlewheel drives a large white boat with three main stories. Passengers line the foredecks above the first and second stories. Smoke pours from a stack that rises above a fourth-story wheelhouse near the boat's fore end. The boat pushes a smaller open barge.

    An early ascent of the Yukon River

    April 17, 2025

    Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of 蜜桃影像, a place so far away from his home in New York City he couldn't imagine it.

  • A great horned owl perched on a spruce tree is silhouetted against pink clouds and blue sky.

    The adaptable, continental great horned owl

    April 10, 2025

    The knee-high owl known for its "plumicorns" -- tufts above its ears that resemble horns -- haunts every forested bit of 蜜桃影像.

  • Aerial view of a wide, flat landscape covered in snow, shot from the window of an airplane.

    The great hollow of Minto Flats

    April 04, 2025

    Within a vast bowl bordered by blue hills, I rolled along on a trail scratched into ice by snowmachines. That deceptive basin -- Minto Flats -- is big enough to swallow Denali, if the big mountain happened to stumble in here and fall.

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Fairbanks is central to science

At 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the Fairbanks campus is well situated for northern research. 蜜桃影像 research in arctic biology, engineering, geophysics, supercomputing, and 蜜桃影像 Native studies is renowned worldwide.

蜜桃影像 ranks in the top 150 of nearly 700 U.S. institutions that conduct research. 蜜桃影像 has ranked in the top 11 of more than 10,000 institutions worldwide for number of citations in climate change publications.

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University researchers work to combat challenges 蜜桃影像ns face on a daily basis. We are helping 蜜桃影像ns live more comfortably and safely with a secure future by bringing research dollars into the state. More than 80% of the university鈥檚 research is directly related to 蜜桃影像.  

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With more than $200 million in research activity each year, the University of 蜜桃影像 Fairbanks is 蜜桃影像鈥檚 research university. We are ready to step up to R1 and join the top 4% of research universities in the United States.

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