UAF captures $9 million to develop more research funding

Mon, August 6, 2007 
Posted in Alaska News

A $9 million federal grant will help the University of Alaska study changes in the Arctic. The funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is going to the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program in Fairbanks. Project director and UAF professor Peter Schweitzer says the money will go toward making the University of Alaska more competitive for research funding.

Libby Casey, KUAC - Fairbanks

 
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  1. mpb on August 29, 2007 at 11:34 pm

    In the newscast, note was made that the grant would enhance “the research capacity in rural Alaska”. The funds would also be invested outside of Fairbanks, “boosting projects at rural campuses”.

    I think the collaboration will be fruitful for the University– for example, at the University of Alaska site (http://www.alaska.edu/opa/eInfo/index.xml?CategoryID=4&Year=) InfoSpots “designed to convey information about the University of Alaska and the surrounding campus communities.” (retrieved Aug 29, 2007)

    Chukchi Campus at University of Alaska Fairbanks
    Chukchi Campus is based in Kotzebue, a remote Inupiat Eskimo settlement that lies some 26 miles above the Arctic Circle in northwest Alaska and about 175 miles northeast of the easternmost tip of Russia.

    Northwest Campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks
    University of Alaska Fairbank [sic] Northwest Campus, located in Nome Alaska, serves 15 Alaska Native Inuit villages… The majority population of the region is Inuit and resides in one of the villages.

    Bristol Bay Campus [also of the University of Alaska Fairbanks]
    The Bristol Bay Campus provides a broad range of courses designed to attract a diverse student population that includes both degree-seeking, vocational/technical and general-education students. [located in Dillingham, also a Yup'ik Eskimo and Sugpiaq traditional area and serves Alaska Native and rural Alaska students]

    Kuskokwim Campus at University of Alaska Fairbanks
    … Excluding Bethel, 94% of the population on the Y-K delta is native Alaskan (Yup’ik Eskimo, Cup’ik Eskimo, and Athasbaskan Indian) and has been in extensive contact with western values for only 75 [sic] years.

    It would be nice if the university uses its new money to at least contact the scientists who already live and try to work in rural Alaska. The directory of the American Assoc for the Advancement of Science lists about 5 off the road system, only one in the Unorganized Borough (not a UAF campus); in the directory for Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society there is just (the same) one in all of rural Alaska (none at a UAF campus).

    Maybe we should collaborate on the next grant?

     

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