University of Alaska -- Fairbanks, AK USA
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The University of Alaska Fairbanks, located in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska System, and is abbreviated as UAF.
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Location: Alaska, United States
Date Posted: 01/12/2008
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UAF is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant institution, as well as participating in the sun-grant program through Oregon State University. It is also the site where the Alaska Constitution was signed in 1956. UAF was established in 1917 as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, first opening for classes in 1922.
UAF is home to seven major research units: the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station; the Geophysical Institute, which operates 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. Located just 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle, the Fairbanks campus's unique location is situated favorably for Arctic and northern research. The campus's several lines of research are renowned worldwide, most notably in Arctic biology, Arctic engineering, geophysics, supercomputing, and aboriginal studies. The University of Alaska Museum of the North is also on the Fairbanks campus.
Name: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Location/Address:
215 Signers' Hall
P.O. Box 757480
Fairbanks, AK USA
99775
Phone Number: (907) 474-7500
Web Site: [Web Link]
Type of School: Undergraduate School with Graduate Programs
School Affiliation: Public -- State/Provincial/etc.
Date Founded: 1922
Enrollment: 11,117 (2013 Stats)
Nicknames/Mascots: "Nanooks" the Inupiaq Eskimo word for polar bear "nanuq"
School Colors: blue, yellow, white
School Motto: Ad Summum (Latin for "to the top")
Location of GPS Coordinates: Center of Campus just south of the Woods Center
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