Shelbie Umphenour
907-474-2417
1/31/12

Fairbanks poet Nicole Stellon O’Donnell will give a free public reading Friday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Wood Center Ballroom on the UAF campus.

The reading will also launch her latest book, “Steam Laundry,” a collection of poems about Sarah Ellen Gibson, a woman who moved to Fairbanks during the Gold Rush.

This reading is part of the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the UAF English Department. For more information, including a full schedule of events, visit www.uaf.edu/english.

ON THE WEB: www.uaf.edu/english

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UAF photo by Todd Paris
A wreath adorns the newly dedicated SNRAS greenhouse adjacent to the Arctic Health Research Building on UAF's West Ridge.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host holiday sales, open houses and concerts in the coming weeks. Following is a list of events scheduled in December:

University of Alaska Museum of the North holiday sale
Nov. 21 through Dec. 24, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m, Monday – Saturday, UA Museum of the North
Holiday sale prices include 20 percent off bone sculptures and masks, and 10 percent off all other museum store merchandise, including ivory carvings, beadwork, children’s books and toys. Free gift-wrapping is available. Call 474-1595 for more information.

Alaska Sea Grant, Marketing and Communications and UA Press open house, sale
Dec. 1, 2 – 6 p.m., Wells Fargo Building, second floor, Geist Road and University Ave.
The event will include free refreshments, door prizes, book signings, free gift-wrapping and 25 percent off all Alaska Sea Grant and UA Press items. Have your photo taken with the Nanook. The UAF shuttle is available for service between campus and the Wells Fargo Building by calling 474-7433. Call 474-6707 or email [email protected] for more information.

UAF music department – Music at One
Thursdays, Dec. 1 and 8, 1 p.m., Charles W. Davis Concert Hall
These free concerts feature UAF music students performing a variety of pieces. Open to the public.

Northern Lights String Orchestra concert
Thursday, Dec. 1, 8 p.m., Charles W. Davis Concert Hall
This free concert will include works by Vaughn Williams, Corelli and Rutter.

Large Animal Research holiday bazaar
Friday, Dec. 2, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., West Ridge Research Building lobby and room 210
This sale will feature T-shirts, sweatshirts, raw qiviut, Alaska-made items and lots more. For more information call 474-7165.

Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra – Design Alaska Holiday Concert
Sunday, Dec. 4, 4 p.m., Charles W. Davis Concert Hall
This annual holiday concert will feature the Fairbanks Symphony with the Choir of the North, University Chorus and Northland Youth Choir. For tickets and information, call 474-5733.

UAF music department – string chamber groups concert
Tuesday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m., Charles W. Davis Concert Hall
This free concert features UAF music students. Open to the public.

UAF music department – Junior recital
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m., Charles W. Davis Concert Hall
This free concert features UAF music student Franz Felkl on violin. Open to the public.

UAF holiday concert, wind symphony and jazz band
Friday, Dec. 9, 8 p.m., Charles W. Davis Concert Hall, UAF campus
This concert will feature the Wind Symphony, directed by Karen Gustafson, and the Jazz Band, directed by James Bicigo, playing holiday classics and more. Tickets are available at the door: $10 for adults, $5 for students, seniors and military; children under 12 attend free. Call 474-7555 for further information.

UAF art department semiannual sale of student artwork
Friday, Dec. 9, noon – 6 p.m., Fine Arts Building, studios 415 and 405
Ceramics and prints will be for sale. Contact Carol Hoefler, UAF art department, at 474-7530 for more information.

University Chorus holiday concert, “Christmas Oratorios”
Saturday, Dec. 10, 8 p.m., Charles W. Davis Concert Hall
The University Chorus in holiday concert, directed by Jaunelle Celaire. Tickets are $5 for students, seniors and military; $10 for adults; and children 12 and under are free. Call 474-7555 for more information.

UAF music department – brass ensembles concert
Sunday, Dec. 11, 4 p.m., Charles W. Davis Concert Hall
This free concert features UAF music students. Open to the public.

UAF music department – Junior recital
Sunday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m., Charles W. Davis Concert Hall
This free concert features UAF music student Khelsea Sawyer on piano. Open to the public.

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Marmian Grimes
907-474-7902
11/10/11

The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host a workshop to familiarize people with the draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The event will begin at 7 p.m, Nov. 11 in Room 208 of the Gruening Building on the UAF campus. Speakers will offer information on ANWR history and public land management, as well as insight on how to offer input on the future of ANWR.

The event is sponsored by the Northern Studies Student Club at UAF and is free and open to the public. Space is limited, so arrive early.

MEDIA CONTACT: Marmian Grimes, UAF public information officer, at 907-474-7902 or via email at [email protected].

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Shelbie Umphenour
907-474-2417
11/9/11

Faculty and student writers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks English department will perform a free public reading on Friday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Wood Center Ballroom on the UAF campus.

Students and faculty members will read from poems and short stories.

This reading is part of the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the UAF English Department. For more information, including a full schedule of events visit www.uaf.edu/english.

ON THE WEB: www.uaf.edu/english

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Marmian Grimes
907-474-7902
10/31/11

The Alaska History Store at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will host its annual holiday historical photograph reprint sale Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5.

The sale will run 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Kayak Room in Rasmuson Library on the UAF campus.

The sale will allow the public to purchase reproductions of historic Alaska photographs, panoramas, rare maps and notecards, as well as a 2012 calendar with some of the most-requested images.

Proceeds benefit the work of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections at Rasmuson Library. More information is available online at www.alaskahistorystore.org or call 907-474-6344.

ON THE WEB: www.alaskahistorystore.org

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 Marmian Grimes
907-474-7902
10/26/11

The 21st annual Dead Writers Reading and Raffle will be Friday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. at the Blue Loon.

Members of the public are invited to come dressed as their favorite dead writer, give a three-minute reading and compete for prizes. Audience members are also welcome. You must be 21 or older to attend.

The event is a fundraiser for the University of Alaska Fairbanks English Department’s Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series.

Tickets are $15 at the door for general admission and $12 with a UAF PolarExpress card.

 CONTACT: Christie VanLaningham at 907-750-3678 or [email protected].

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Shelbie Umphenour
907-474-2417
10/25/11

The Socratic Society at the University of Alaska Fairbanks will sponsor a debate Thursday, Oct. 27 at 1 p.m. between UAF philosophy and biology professor Eduardo Wilner and philosophy professor Doug Geivett [GUY-vit], from the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

The debate, which will be held in the Carol Brown Ballroom in the UAF Wood Center, will concentrate on the arguments behind both theism and atheism. Geivett will argue in favor of theism while Wilner will argue in favor of atheism.

The event is free and open to the public.

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Marmian Grimes
907-474-7902
10/17/11

Emmy award-winning journalist Cheryl W. Thompson will give a free public lecture, “Guns in America” on Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Noel Wien Library Auditorium.

Thompson is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post who has written extensively about government corruption, immigration, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Washington, D.C. police department’s handling of homicide investigations. She was part of a team of reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting

Most recently, she tracked guns used to kill more than 500 police officers—including several in Alaska—since 2000. The groundbreaking series examined how the killers, many of them felons, got their firearms.

Thompson is a native of Chicago. She has a bachelor’s degree in speech communication and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida, and Georgetown and Howard universities.

Thompson’s lecture is part of the Snedden Guest Lecture Series. Helen Snedden established the Snedden Chair and lecture series in 2003 with a gift in memory of her late husband, C.W. Snedden, the former publisher and owner of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Since its establishment, the lecture series has allowed the UAF journalism department to bring nationally known journalists to Fairbanks to speak to students, local journalists and the public.

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: UAF journalism department at 907-474-7761.

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Shelbie Umphenour
907-474-2417
10/12/11

Fiction writer Andrew Porter will give a free public reading Friday, October 14 at 7 p.m. at the University of Alaska Museum of the North on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

Porter’s award-winning short story collection “The Theory of Light and Matter” will be featured in his reading.

Porter’s reading is the third of the 2011-2012 Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the UAF English Department.

For more information, including a full schedule of visiting writers, visit www.uaf.edu/english.

ON THE WEB: www.uaf.edu/english

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Shelbie Umphenour
907-474-2417
9/27/11

UAF College of Liberal Arts Dean Johnny Payne and UA Press acquisitions editor James Engelhardt will perform public readings of their works Friday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. in the Wood Center Ballroom on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus.

Payne is a novelist, dramatist and scholar. Engelhardt is a poet who also writes about games and gaming.

This event is free and open to the public.

The reading is sponsored by the UAF English department and is part of the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series. More information is available online at www.uaf.edu/english.

ON THE WEB: www.uaf.edu/english

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