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The biologist drove to a movie theater. In the middle of the day. Barnes, 70, had time to catch a matinee in Fairbanks because after 38 years he recently retired from the University Alaska Fairbanks.<br></p></li> <li> <div class="newsImage"> <img src="https://www.uaf.edu/news/FairbanksFieldDay24.jpg" alt="A group of people stand in a field facing a person giving a presentation on the flowering plants behind with university buildings visible on the hill in the background."> </div><p class="title h5 internal-feed"><a href="https://www-uaf-edu.translate.goog/news/uaf-boosts-awareness-of-agriculture-food-systems-in-alaska.php?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB">UAF boosts awareness of agriculture, food systems in Alaska</a></p><p class="date m-0">November 14, 2024<br></p><p class="excerpt short-desc pt-2">A combination of corporate support and the University of Alaska Fairbanks' commitment to science communication has allowed the Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension to leverage new initiatives to increase awareness of agriculture's importance to Alaska's complex food system.<br></p></li> <li> <div class="newsImage"> <img src="https://www.uaf.edu/news/biscuits2.jpg" alt="Three lightly browned sourdough biscuits are piled on a flour-covered surface."> </div><p class="title h5 internal-feed"><a href="https://www-uaf-edu.translate.goog/news/sitka-chef-to-lead-brunch-time-biscuit-making-workshop.php?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB">Sitka chef to lead brunch-time biscuit-making workshop</a></p><p class="date m-0">November 12, 2024<br></p><p class="excerpt short-desc pt-2">Chef Andrew Jylkka will share his tips and tricks for making sourdough buttermilk biscuits during a cozy brunch-time class sponsored by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service in Sitka.<br></p></li> <li> <div class="newsImage"> <img src="https://www.uaf.edu/news/bonsai.jpg" alt="A person wraps wire around the trunk of a tiny evergreen bonsai tree to shape it."> </div><p class="title h5 internal-feed"><a href="https://www-uaf-edu.translate.goog/news/learn-the-ancient-art-of-bonsai-in-anchorage-class.php?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB">Learn the ancient art of bonsai in Anchorage class</a></p><p class="date m-0">November 11, 2024<br></p><p class="excerpt short-desc pt-2">Learn the art of bonsai in a hands-on class taught by longtime florist Paul Marmora in Anchorage. Marmora is past president of the Cook Inlet Bonsai Study Group.<br></p></li> <li> <div class="newsImage"> <img src="https://www.uaf.edu/_news/images/brooks-range.jpg" alt="A landscape with spruce trees in the foreground and a rocky mountain slope in the distance."> </div><p class="title h5 internal-feed"><a href="https://www-uaf-edu.translate.goog/news/geologic-hydrogen-may-be-an-answer.php?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB">Geologic hydrogen may be an answer</a></p><p class="date m-0">November 08, 2024<br></p><p class="excerpt short-desc pt-2">The internal combustion engine is less than 100 years old. Same for the technologies we have developed to pull oil and gas from the ground. It's hard to imagine life without our cars and planes and buildings heated with natural gas and oil. But it really wasn't that long ago that people had none of these things. 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