The next UArctic Rectors' Forum is planned to take place at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland on February 27-29, 2008. The meeting will be organized in conjunction with the meeting of the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region (SCPAR).

The Council of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) has decided to establish three Regional Offices of Undergraduate Studies. The three offices will be responsible for the distance degree completion delivery of UArctic’s Circumpolar Studies Program within their respective regions: North America, Russia, and the Nordic-Baren...

The deadline for registering to participate in the upcoming Arctic Energy Summit Technology Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, is September 1.

The 2008 Canadian Science Writers' Association (CSWA) convention will focus on the International Polar Year and science in the North.

A special session dedicated to northern students and northern research policy has been incorporated into the prorgramme of the upcoming 8th International Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS) Student Conference on Northern Studies, to take place at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada,...

The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at University of Helsinki announces a PhD student opportunity in "Baltic Sea Ice Biogeochemistry: The Role of Photochemistry and Bacterial Processes."

The European Union's budget for 2007 includes funding to support transatlantic projects in the area of Arctic marine environment policy.

The book Into the Ice, published by Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, is the first collected presentation of Norwegian polar history available to an international public.

Registration is now open online for the First Biennial Forum on Sustainable Northern Shelter to take place in Fairbanks, Alaska, October 28 to 30, 2007.

Text: Asgeir Solstad Photo: Peter Glanfield It was a true international course. The approx. 25 students came from Cameroon in south to Canada in the north. And the teachers came from Russia, Norway, Canada, USA, Finland and Sweden. The first course on master level in “Social Policy in the High North” was held at Bodø Univers...

Papers are invited for the session "Human Dimensions of the Arctic System - Expanding the Framework for Research" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2007 Arctic Division Annual Meeting to be held on 24-26 September 2007 in Anchorage, Alaska.

The International Polar Year (IPY) International Sea-Ice Summer School, which is part of UArctic’s IPY Cluster for Higher Education and Outreach, was successfully completed 2-13 July 2007 at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) in Longyearbyen.

The symposium "POLAR: Fieldwork and Archive Fever" will be held on 19-20 November 2007 at the British Library in London, UK.

The First Workshop on Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks will be held on 12-14 November 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mark Nuttall, anthropology professor at the University of Edmonton and Chair of the Steering Committee of the UArctic Thematic Network on Global Change, was awarded an Academy of Finland Distinguished Professorship at the University of Oulu.