With birch bark, flowers, mushrooms and even a burbot head in hand, students and the public gathered at the University of Alaska Fairbanks ceramics studio to watch and learn from an acclaimed professional. Visiting artist Dawn Holder gave ceramics demonstrations for two days, teaching students how to take these fragile objects and preserve their memory in clay. Holder is currently an associate professor at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Illinois; her art is exhibited across the world.

On Monday Oct. 13, UAF celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day honoring Native culture through song, story, games, and community.

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, or WGSS, at UAF has doubled enrollment numbers since last year under the leadership of political science professor Carol Gray.

Wednesday’s event at Solstice Books hosted three local authors who discussed their books that focused on the Indigenous communities, and the stories and histories within them. Authors Leasi Vanessa Lee Raymond, Anamaq Margaret Rudolf, and Ch’igiioonta’ She Holds a Child all came with important messages about their works.

This year’s game of Humans versus Zombies bewildered campus last week and gave people a lot to talk about with the array of students walking around with strange orange ribbons and nerf guns.

UAF sophomore Fernando Escobar is currently serving as the sole student regent on the University of Alaska Board of Regents, composed of 11 board members.

Members of The Sun Star embarked on a culinary tour of the third annual food truck rally, held as part of the Starvation Gulch celebration on Saturday, Sept. 13.

If your immediate thought upon seeing that title was to think about milk, then you wouldn’t be the first. Despite its deceiving name, lacto-fermentation doesn’t necessarily involve milk or lactose.

The 3rd Annual Currant Fest was celebrated at the Georgeson Botanical Gardens at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, bringing together the whole Fairbanks community to celebrate the growing and preservation of currant berries.

We asked incoming freshmen what they were excited about experiencing at UAF.

Mycologist Noah Siegel, co-author of “Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast” and a nationally recognized fungi expert, spoke to over 100 attendees at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’s Murie Auditorium on August 22, 2025.

On August 26 this year’s recipients of the Peter Mackeith Grant presented their expedition to the Stikine Icecap. The team consisted of Torin Hooge, Simeon Ramirez, Hazel Probst and Leo Nordman.  The team set out to climb three major peaks in the area: Kate’s Needle, Castle Mountain, and Mount Pratt. 

The International Chamber Music Alaska, or ICMA, Summer Intensive was held from August 11-16, filling the Davis Concert Hall with the sounds of live chamber music.

Can a 27 year-old Subaru make it 1,000 miles from Fairbanks to Ninilchik and back? That was what I set out to test when I left Fairbanks for Salmonfest.

On July 29 at the Experiment Farm, UAF’s Agricultural Institute hosted a field day for the farmers, researchers, and gardeners of the Interior. Despite the pouring rain which continued through most of the day, dozens of people braved the elements to see the various educational talks and discuss agriculture related questions with researchers. 

Bagpipes, kilts and cheers filled the air Saturday, Aug. 9, as the Alaska Dog Mushers Association field on Farmers Loop Road hosted the inaugural Midnight Sun Scottish Highland Games.

Starting your first semester at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is a bit like stepping into a whole new climate – and not just because of the freezing temperatures. UAF is more than a campus; it’s a tight-knit community surrounded by Alaska’s wilderness.

The beginning of life for birds is pretty simple – most start off with being hatched in a nest in a tree. For the horned lark, their nest is buried in the ground.