University of Alaska Fairbanks

University of Alaska Fairbanks
motto	Naturally Inspiring
founding	1917
Sponsorship	state
place	College , Alaska
Students	9,992 (fall 2014)
Employee	1,467 (fall 2014)
Annual budget	$ 433.8 million (2014)
University sports	Nanooks
Networks	University of the Arctic
Website	www.uaf.edu

International Arctic Research Center

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (also called UAF ) is a state university in college in the US state of Alaska . With 9,992 students, it is the second largest location in the University of Alaska System after the University of Alaska Anchorage . As the original campus of the University of Alaska, it is the most important location in the university system. In addition to the campus in Fairbanks, the UAF has seven other external locations: the Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham , the Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue , the Interior Aleutians Campus in the Aleutian Islands , the Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel , the Northwest Campus in Nome , and the Tanana Valley Fairbanks campus . The university is known for its research and teaching in arctic biology, arctic engineering, atmospheric physics, geology, geophysics, indigenous studies, and wildlife biology. The geophysical institute is important. She is a member of the University of the Arctic .

history

The university was founded in 1917 as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines . The university built on the agricultural research station that had existed since 1906. From 1935 the college was called University of Alaska . Since 1975, the current name has been used to distinguish the university from the other two campuses in the University of Alaska system . In 2019, Governor Mike Dunleavy cut 40% of the state grant to the university budget. The board of directors of the university thereupon declared the financial emergency.

Sports

The UAF sports teams are known as “Nanooks” (Nanuq) ( Inupiaq for polar bear ). The college is a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and the Great Northwest Athletic Conference

Others

At the university is the Georgeson Botanical Garden , a botanical garden . The university's Geophysical Institute is one of the three sponsors of the Alaska Volcano Observatory .

Personalities

• Bob Bartlett (1904–1968), politician
• Sydney Chapman (1888–1970), geophysicist
• Dean Fedorchuk (* 1970), ice hockey player
• Ronald Graham (1935-2020), mathematician
• Ben Grossmann (* 1977), film technician and Oscar winner
• Jay Hammond (1922–2005), politician, Governor of Alaska
• Jordan Hendry (born 1984), ice hockey player
• Chad Johnson (born 1986), ice hockey player
• Brad Oleson (born 1983), basketball player
• Colton Parayko (born 1993), ice hockey player
• George Polk (1913-1948), journalist
• George Schaller (* 1933), environmentalist

Web links

Commons : University of Alaska Fairbanks  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Official website of the Georgeson Botanical Garden at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} University of Alaska Fairbanks - Enrollment Face Sheet (PDF; 411 KB)
2. ^ Deep budget cuts put University of Alaska in crisis mode; 'grappling with survival' - Reuters, July 23, 2019

Coordinates: 64 ° 51 '31.9 "  N , 147 ° 50' 9.8"  W.