UAF tests unmanned aircraft to study wildlife

07/09/11 DAN JOLING Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska Greg Walker is looking to fly in places where blue sky and runways are in short supply. Walker is manager of the unmanned aircraft program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He's at the beginning of a project to evaluate how unmanned aircraft can be used to monitor endangered Steller sea lions as they haul out on remote rocky outcroppings of the ...

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59 graduate from UAF Rural Alaska Honors Institute

07/14/11 FAIRBANKS - Caps soared toward the ceiling of Schaible Auditorium on Wednesday as 59 students celebrated their graduation from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Rural Alaska Honors Institute. Fi...

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Honors Institute students test life as arctic field scientists

07/15/11 Six students from the Rural Alaska Honors Institute are to participate in an arctic research project in late July, hosted by scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the National Science Foundation's Arctic Systems Science thermokarst project.

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