University of Alaska Anchorage head hockey coach Matt Shasby announced Thursday that he has tapped Fairbanks’ Trevor Stewart to become the associate head coach of the Seawolves for their 2022-23 return to the ice.

Permafrost thaw and coastal erosion are affecting Point Lay and other North Slope and Northwest Alaska communities, as well as most places across Pan-Arctic coastlines. Louise Farquharson, a research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, is working on long-term projections for how coastal erosion and land subsidence in Point Lay, Wainwright and Kaktovik may lead to extensive sea water inundation.

The documentary focuses on two major Alaska dinosaur sites that are the focus of University of Alaska Fairbanks professor and UA Museum Director Patrick Druckenmiller’s research: the North Slope and Denali National Park. For several years he has co-led expeditions to the sites looking for bones, teeth and tracks of dinosaurs that lived in Arctic settings about 70 million years ago.

Freshman forward Brady Risk and his Alaska Nanooks hockey teammates seem to have found their scoring touch. Risk scored three times and added an assist on Friday night as the Nanooks earned their first road win of the season, skating to a 6-2 victory over the University of Maine Black Bears in Orono, Maine.

UAS Sitka Campus academic adviser Katie Sill says students of any age contemplating college can feel overwhelmed in large, out-of-state university systems. Sill says Sitka Start can help students recognize the opportunity that college offers, whether it’s continuing in the UA system, or enrolling in a larger institution.

“We found microplastics in every single rain sample (gathered in Juneau),” Sonia Nagorski told the American Geophysical Union in New Orleans. Nagorski, a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, was presenting in December via her computer from Juneau.