Staff members with the Alaska and Polar Regions Collection at the Rasmuson Library work with elders from the Koyukuk River villages of Huslia, Hughes and Allakaket identifying subjects in old photos recently added to the library's collection.. UAF Photo by Todd Paris

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    UAF's 2023 Legacy Lecture to feature author, historian Mary Ehrlander

    May 26, 2023

    The 四虎影院 2023 Legacy Lecture will honor author and professor emeritus Mary Ehrlander. The lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, June 5, in the BP Design Theater, Room 401 of the Usibelli Building.

  • Video still from Al Jazeera English on Tuesday, March 22, 2023.

    Al Jazeera asks UAF's Phil Wight about the Willow Decision

    April 07, 2023

    Phil Wight, Assistant Professor of History and Arctic & Northern Studies made a live national TV appearance when he spoke with Al Jazeera English about the Willow decision on Tuesday, March 22, 2023.

  • A woman holds a moose skull with antlers on one shoulder while standing in a shallow stream. Another woman sits with a paddle in an inflatable canoe nearby.

    Ancient moose antlers hint of early arrival

    December 02, 2022

    When a great deal of Earth's water was locked up within mountains of ice, our ancestors scampered across a dry corridor from what is today Siberia over to Alaska. Those adventurous souls may have been accompanied by another creature that needed wood -- the moose.

  • A woman sits behind a table covered with fossil bones. Shelves behind and around her hold plastic storage tubs and more specimens. A few antlers and skulls hang on a wall.

    Secrets of an ancient horse of the Yukon

    August 12, 2022

    In the lab of Yukon government paleontologists are the remains of saber-toothed cats, bears with boxy faces that stood 8 feet tall, woolly mammoths and sloths the size of gorillas. Of all these time-hardened riches of the past, Elizabeth Hall has a cherished piece -- the fragment of a horse's foreleg that fits in the palm of her hand.