ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 16 (TNSawa) -- The University of Alaska issued the following news release: The University of Alaska Foundation Board of Directors has awarded the 2022 Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellence to Libby Roderick. Roderick, who has been a UAA staff member since 2006, is the director of the Difficult Dialogues Initiative and associate director of the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence. Roderick received the award Wednesday during the Foundation's board meeting in Fairbank  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 17 -- Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2022: To protect the health and wellbeing of Alaskans, Governor Mike Dunleavy today signed Administrative Order 338, creating the Office of Food Security. Alaska currently imports 95 percent of its food supplies at a cost of $2 billion per year. As an isolated state with limited infrastructure and tremendous dependency on imports, the State of Alaska has a duty to improve the local productio  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 14 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release and letter: Attorney General Paxton joined an Alaska-led multistate letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pushing back against its arbitrary and unprecedented abuse of authority under section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act. Alaska sought a permit under section 404 from EPA to conduct mining operations in a confined region of the state. EPA vetoed the mine, and any future efforts to devel  more

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 10 -- The University of Alaska issued the following news release: During its two-day meeting in Juneau, the University of Alaska Board of Regents addressed Alaska's critical needs for a qualified workforce, the success of the dual enrollment programs across the system, and investments in the university to improve the student experience, faculty capacity, research and innovation to empower Alaska's future. On Thursday, regents held an initial discussion on the FY24 oper  more

JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 13 (TNSfund) -- The University of Alaska-Southeast issued the following news release: The University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) will be receiving $2.3 Million dollars to support its mariculture workforce development program operated through the Applied Fisheries program at UAS. On September 2nd President Biden announced the 21 winners of the $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge, this includes $49 million for Southeast Conference and the Alaska Mariculture Cluster  more

BUFFALO, New York, Sept. 13 (TNSres) -- The University at Buffalo (State University of New York) issued the following news release: * * * Researching the past could provide important insights into how climate change may impact ecosystems today * * * University at Buffalo scientists have received over $2.9 million from the National Science Foundation to study the impacts of prehistoric climate change on ecosystems in Southeast Alaska. This coastal region "holds exceptional geologic archives   more