The UArctic Northern Governance Thematic Network is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Graduate Student Fellowships - Canada’s Role in the Circumpolar World, sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) have been selected by the Review Committee.

2010 Year of the Inuit is an educational campaign spearheaded by Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national organization representing Canadian Inuit.

The latest version of the UArctic website launched today, designed to bring improvements in both the interface and structure of the content to better serve our different audiences.

UArctic members and units can now make use of a revised general PowerPoint presentation, available under Resources for Members. The presentation has been updated with current informaiton about UArctic and new graphics from the Strategic Plan. Customize the existing information to suit your purpose and audience when giving pre...

The University of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue (UQAT) and DIALOG (research and knowledge network relating to Aboriginal peoples) will host the 17th Inuit Studies Conference from 4-6 November 2010. The event will be held at the UQAT First Peoples Pavilion on the Val-d'Or campus, Quebec, Canada, under the theme "The Inuit an...

The abstract submission deadline for the 2010 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) has been extended. The new deadline is Friday, 18 December 2009. The conference will be convened 25-30 July 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Hilton Hawaiian Village.

Three students in the collaborative Nursing degree program at Grande Prairie Regional College are preparing for an adventurous new year in 2010 – they are among the ten students in University of Alberta Nursing programs who have been selected to serve their practicum placements in Ghana, Africa.

UNBC’s course – ORTM 414-3 Polar Tourism and Recreation – will be offered for the first time online during the Winter 2010 semester, January 4th – April 9th, 2010, through distance learning (the entire course will be run through UNBC’s Blackboard online learning system).

Conference: International Polar Year (IPY) "From Knowledge to Action"Montreal, Quebec, CanadaApril 22-27, 2012Canada has contributed $156 million into research activities focused on its Northern regions. Information and traditional knowledge that has been obtained through research will be used to create dialogue that could...

Special features of the North, such as physical environment, social circumstances, linguistic and cultural aspects and peripheral location, place specific demands on the delivery of health care and wellbeing services.

The Arctic Research Support and Logistics program of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs (NSF) will hold a Barrow Area Logistics Support Forum at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in San Francisco on Tuesday, 15 December 2009, 3:00-4:00 p.m. The meeting will be convened in the ARCUS Arct...

The organizers of the SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook announce an open community meeting, "Sea Ice Outlook: What We Learned from 2009 and Future Plans," to be held during the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting on Wednesday, 16 December 2009. The meeting will take place in the ARCUS Arctic Community Meeting Room at the San F...

Science Conference “Circumpolar Culture – the basis of the Arctic Civilisation” was held on the 5 th of December 2009. The initiative of holding the conference belongs to the senior lecturer of Sakha State University S. Protopopov, Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts and  Saint-Petersburg Humanitarian University of Tra...

This session includes Aboriginal hunters/elders and scientists focusing on caribou, climate change, community resilience and adaptation. 

The IPY Oslo Science Conference, which will be convened in Oslo, Norway, at the Norges Varemesse conference center, is planned for 8-12 June 2010.