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  • We're hiring: Data Visualization Student Intern

    February 06, 2026

    We're looking to hire a University of Alaska Fairbanks student to be our new Data Visualization Intern for Alaska NSF EPSCoR! As an intern, you'll join our Data Visualization team to tell the stories of EPSCoR science and data through interactive media such as animated graphs and videos, VR games, immersive 360 experiences, and more! Learn and exercise your technical skills like coding in Python and C# and software including Adobe Suite products, Unity, and Blender. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. Apply now!

  • Tommy Sheridan and his son, Wesley sharing kelp pickle soup.

    The Seeds That You Plant

    November 27, 2025

    Growing the Alaska Blue Economy. A reflection by Tommy Sheridan, Director of the Alaska Blue Economy Center

  • Davin Holen fishing with his son on the Kasilof River.

    Understanding how wild harvests are impacted by environmental stress and the resilience of rural communities in Alaska

    November 26, 2025

    A reflection by Alaska Sea Grant Coastal Community Resilience Specialist and Interface of Change Co-PI Davin Holen.

  • Josie Sam sits in one of three purple chairs. The paint on the chairs is peeling. Josie holds a clip board and a pen, slightly smiling, leaning in and listening to a man seated opposite of her. Sam is wearing a brimmed hat with sunglasses on top of the hat, a white t-shirt, jeans, and hiking boots. The man sits against the wall. He is holding a paper. He may be smiling a little or he is just talking. He wears shorts and a bright yellow short-sleeved, buttoned, collared shirt with a brown pattern. The shirt is unbuttoned at the top, revealing some of his chest, suggesting a hot environment. Lines in his face suggest he is maybe middle-aged, but not elderly. A third person sits in another of the purple chairs, but all we can see is their knees and fingers. The room they are in is small. The thick concrete walls are painted white on top and bright blue on the bottom up to window height. The paint is a bit textured with age. A large window, which is an open section of wall -- no glass or screen, allows light in, washing out the photo somewhat.

    Josie Sam joins IoC as Broadening Participation lead, lends global perspective on community partnership

    October 30, 2025

    Josie Sam is a professor and co-chair of the UAF Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development. She co-founded the Nyarkoa Foundation, a non-profit that supports rural development in Ghana. She has been involved in collaborative community work throughout Alaska with the International Arctic Research Center, including ACCAP, and the Food Security Working Group of the Arctic Observing Summit. Sam now brings her wisdom in her new role on the Alaska EPSCoR Interface of Change project leadership team.

  • Women in a panel presentation audience a conference room turned around listening and smiling.

    Registration is now open for IGNITE 2026

    October 16, 2025

    Our annual professional development workshop, "IGNITE: Individual Growth & New Ideas Through EPSCoR/INBRE" will take place January 7, 2026 at the BP Energy Center in Anchorage, hosted in partnership with Alaska INBRE. Spots are limited, so register now to reserve your seat!

  • From EPSCoR PhD to Co-PI, Jordan Jenckes embraces team science & accessible data

    September 26, 2025

    The fall semester is underway, and Jordan Jenckes is busy on campus teaching Intro to Computer Science at UAA as a new faculty member in the UAA computer science and engineering department. Meanwhile, he takes on the role of co-principal investigator (co-PI) on the Alaska EPSCoR Interface of Change project.

  • Students to Startups expose interns to kelp farming and startup business entrepreneurship

    August 29, 2025

    UAF fisheries undergraduates got hands-on experience working with Seaquester Farms and Pacific Kelp Co., getting a taste of the growing Alaskan kelp mariculture industry.

  • PhD Fellowships for NSF EGRFP Honorable Mention Recipients

    August 20, 2025

    Applications are now open for PhD student fellowships through the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (CFOS), funded through the EMERGE Alaska Program. Fellowships provide full financial support for 3 years, starting 2026.

  • In a Time of Change announces call for artists

    June 11, 2025

    The In a Time of Change program is accepting applications for artist residencies for a new art-science collaboration project inspired by coastal research and lifeways in the Gulf of Alaska region. In "Coastal Transitions," In a Time of Change will collaborate with the Interface of Change project run by the Alaska Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. Interface of Change is a research, education and workforce development project funded by the National Science Foundation. It focuses on the socio-ecological health of coastal communities and key marine harvest species within the Gulf of Alaska's glacially influenced coastal environments.

  • Ten middle school students wearing award medals pose with their two adult team coaches and the UAF Nook mascot outside in bright sun with a clear blue sky on the UAF campus. There is snow on the ground. In the background, there is the UAF Rasmuson library and engineering buildings, and the ice arch.

    North Pole Science Olympiad team competes in national tournament

    May 23, 2025

    The Alaska Science Olympiad 2025 first place-winning middle school team from Discovery Peak Charter School in North Pole will compete in the Science Olympiad National Tournament at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln May 23-24.