University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.Application Deadline: Early February 2009

Arctic Centre, University of Lapland

In November 2008, Seasons and Biomes team members from the University of Alaska Fairbanks traveled to Thailand.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has named two Alaska Native doctoral students as its first Mellon Dissertation Fellows.

Postdoctoral Position Available: Vegetation and Wildlife Modeling, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, Alaska. This position is open until filled.

                                      The University of the Arctic would like to send season's greetings and best wishes in the New Year to all of its offices, members, students and supporters.

The UArctic Atlas will go online on January 23, 2009 with the official launch at the SIU Higher Education – A Key to Future Development in the High North conference in Tromso, Norway.

1st call for papers for an open research conference with full paper workshops on Optimizing Future Health Care Services6.-8. May 2009University College Narvik, Norway

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The Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU) is pleased to invite you to the conference Higher Education – A Key to Future Development in the High North, in Tromsø (Norway) 21 – 23 January 2009. The confence is organised in cooperation with the University of Tromsø.

The International Arctic Social Sciences Association, IASSA, invites contributions for the next issue of the Northern Notes newsletter. Contributions are invited from both members and non-members of the Association on issues of interest to Arctic social scientists.

                         1 - 4 July 2009, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

Council of Higher education in Northern Norway will arrange a conference in Murmansk February 9th to 11th 2009, to bring Norwegian experiences with the Quality reform and the Bologna implementation to the neighbouring higher education institutions (HEI) in Northwest Russia.

Nome, Alaska 6-10 April 2009 Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 February 2009