2009 marked an important step for Sandra Juutilainen’s involvement in UArctic, as she then started her master’s in Circumpolar Health and Wellbeing (MCH) at the University of Oulu, which was created under the auspices of UArctic’s Thematic Network on Arctic Medicine. But, the 40 year old Canadian felt even more part of the UA...

The Yukon College Board of Governors is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Karen Barnes to the position of President effective July 1, 2011.

The preliminary program of the Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII), hel 22-26 June 2011 in Akureyri, Iceland, is now available at the ICASS website. Also, registration to the congress is now open.

Angayuqaq, better known as Oscar Kawagley, died in Fairbanks on April 24th, 2011. He had a very long bout with renal cancer which finally caught up with him.

Organizers are pleased to announce a workshop entitled "Fluid Flow inArctic Continental Margins and Ocean Ridges." The workshop will be held 30-31 May 2011 at the University of Tromsø, Norway.

The Arctic and Global Prediction Program at The Office of Naval Research announces a call for planning letters for research to be supported by core program funds.

The deadline for abstract submission for the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Open Science Conference, held in Yantai, China, September 12-15 has been extended. The new deadline is May 31, 2011.

On May 19-20 the University of Tromsø hosts the e-learning Workshop "Creative Use of LMS, Wikis and Mobile Technologies for Learning".

This is what Liudmila Ivanovna Nikanorova, 20 years old and studying in the last year of her Bachelor’s in history with a specialization in ethnography at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, says, especially in relation to the work of UArctic.  Liudmila has been involved with UArctic activities for quite a while,...

The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) will hold a Virtual Poster Session on Thursday, 28 April 2011 at 7:00 p.m. GMT.

The State of the Arctic Coast 2010 Report has now been released and can be accessed online.

The Newsletter of the EU INTERREG IV A Nord Programme is now available. The newsletter can be downloaded from the INTERREG IV website in Swedish, Finnish and Sámi.

A major foreign policy goal of the Obama administration has been to "reset" U.S.-Russian relations, building ties between the two nations at all levels. Several Russian university presidents on Wednesday said that the closer relationship was helping them build much closer ties to American higher education, with a focus on...

The Division of Geography, Department of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki seeks applications to an assistant professorship in spatial environmental research. The position is tenure-track, and will be based in Helsinki, Finland.

The Arctic Visiting Speakers Series (AVS), managed by the ArcticResearch Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) with funding from the National Science Foundation Division of Arctic Sciences, funds researchers and other arctic experts to travel and share their knowledge in communities where they might not otherwise connect. Speakers c...