Return to Top making a difference Elena Troshina , graduate student, created a computer visualization model of a tsunami that occurred in 1883. Part of a project to research the potential impact of Cook Inlet volcanic eruptions, the model can be used to determine how various waves may affect lower Cook Inlet communities. An international meeting on the economic impact of global climate change was held at UAF early this month. Major issues included fisheries, marine ecosystems, resource-dependent communities and fossil fuels and mineral development. Forty-eight junior and senior high school students from across Alaska are participating in the Rural Alaska Honors Institute through July 4.
Students can earn nine or more college credits in the six-week program.
Summer walking tours of campus are offered weekdays at 10 a.m. starting at the UA Museum. The student-guided tours take about two hours. The bookstore will be closed Thursday, June 26 through Monday, June 30, for year-end inventory. Departments may make charge purchases through Wednesday, June 25. The bookstore will reopen Tuesday, July 1 and will offer additional hours on July 3 and July 5 from noon - 4 p.m.