University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF)

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is an open examination college in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. It is the lead grounds of the University of Alaska System. UAF is an area gift, ocean allow, and space-award establishment, and it likewise partakes in the sun-stipend program through Oregon State University. UAF was secured in 1917 as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. It opened for classes in 1922.

UAF is home to seven noteworthy examination units: the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station; the Geophysical Institute, which works the Poker Flat Research Range; the International Arctic Research Center; the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center; the Institute of Arctic Biology; the Institute of Marine Science; and the Institute of Northern Engineering. Spotted only 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the Fairbanks grounds' exceptional area is arranged positively for ice and northern examination. The grounds' few lines of examination are prestigious around the world, most remarkably ice science, cold designing, geophysics, supercomputing and native studies. The University of Alaska Museum of the North is additionally on the Fairbanks grounds.

Notwithstanding the Fairbanks grounds, UAF incorporates seven provincial and urban grounds: Bristol Bay Campus in Dillingham; Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue; Interior-Aleutians Campus, which covers both the Aleutian Islands and the Interior; Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel; Northwest Campus in Nome; and the UAF Community and Technical College in Fairbanks, UAF's junior college arm. Fairbanks is additionally the home of the eLearning and Distance Education, a free learning and separation conveyance program.

In fall 2013, UAF selected 10,214 understudies. Of those understudies, 59.3 percent were female and 40.7 percent were male; 88 percent were students, and 12 percent were graduate understudies. As of May 2013, 1,288 understudies had graduated amid the instantly going before summer, fall and spring semesters.

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