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8th Circumpolar Agricultural Conference & UArctic Inaugural Food Summit

The 8th Circumpolar Agricultural Conference & UArctic Inaugural Food Summit will be held from September 29 to October 3, 2013. Already 59 abstracts hav...

Thu, May 23, 2013

NYT: Hands Across the Melting Ice

Ross Virginia of the UArctic Institute for Applied Circumpolar Policy at Dartmouth College is one of the authors of an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, Han...

Tue, May 14, 2013

International Volcanological Field School: Katmai National Park, Alaska

UAF’s Department of Geology and Geophysics offers a two-week field class, (June 9-22) in volcanology in cooperation with the Institute of Volcanology and Sei...

Fri, Apr 05, 2013

Arctic Parliamentarians meet in Washington D.C.

The Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region met in Washington DC, March 12th-13th, 2013. Among the issues on the agenda were introduction...

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

“Days of the Arctic” were ended by international webinar

Days of the Arctic” which took place in NArFU from the 25th till 28th of February were ended by an international webinar. It was aimed at attracting the worl...

Tue, Mar 05, 2013

Call for Abstracts: Advancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Circumpolar North

“Advancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Circumpolar North”, September 29 – Oct. 3, 2013, Girdwood, Alaska, U.S.A. First joint conferen...

Fri, Jan 25, 2013

VERDDE network meets in Nunavut

Linda Pemik of Nunavut Arctic College organized a meeting of the VERDDE network during the recent Circumpolar Indigenous Education Conference hosted by the...

Wed, Dec 05, 2012

NORDMARINE Network meeting in Tromsø

On October 15th and 16th October members from northern universities dealing with marine and fisheries related education held a meeting in Tromsø on cooperat...

Wed, Nov 07, 2012

Negotiating Pathways to Adulthood: Social Change and Indigenous Culture in Four Circumpolar Communities

This project has run since 2009 and focuses on contemporary dynamics of rapid social change that have dramatically affected the political, cultural, and...

Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood Cross-Site Workshop

UArctic Vice-President Indigenous Jan Henry Keskitalo is this week attending the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood Cross-Site Workshop in W...

Tue, Oct 23, 2012

Pat Pitney named as UArctic Vice-President Finance

University of Alaska Fairbanks' Pat Pitney, who has served as head of the UArctic Finance Office, has been named by the Board of Governors as Vice-President...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012

Dartmouth Report Addresses the Health and Wellbeing of Arctic Communities

Rapidly changing health conditions in the Arctic, due in part to climate change and globalization, call for a dramatically new approach to research and del...

Thu, May 31, 2012

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