Thursday

Beluga Nights FINAL 2010 performance


Robin Dale Ford and Pat Fitzgerald, Alaska's favorite local singer-songwriting duo, return to Beluga Field for the season's final
FREE Beluga Nights Summer Concert event.

Sunday, July 25th
6:00 p.m.
UAF Beluga Field

Promises to be an exciting show filled with bluegrass, folk, and fun!

For More Information + Rain Locations


Friday

Libby Casey - The View from Washington

7 p.m. Monday, July 12 - Schaible Auditorium *FREE*
 
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What does Alaska look like from D.C.?


Hear Libby Casey, the Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Alaska Public Radio Network, talk about all she sees and hears in her dynamic and demanding career. She moved to Washington in 2008 after spending more than a decade in Fairbanks reporting for local public radio station KUAC and teaching radio production at UAF.
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Now APRN’s D.C. correspondent, Casey is also a regular guest host of C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. Her stories have appeared on “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “The World,” and the CBC. Since moving to Washington she’s discussed Alaska politics on “The Today Show,” CNN, MSNC and Fox News. 
 
For further information call 474-7021 or visit www.uaf.edu/summer

Wednesday

AAUW 38th HOUSE TOUR

AAUW 38th Annual HOUSE TOUR
Saturday , July 10, 2010 
1:00 - 5:00pm

THE HOUSE TOUR is AAUW 's primary fundraising event of the year. Three houses are open this year for viewing on a drive-yourself tour.



DRIVE YOURSELF
3 Interesting Homes
Tickets and Maps - $20.00 - available at:
The Woodway - College Road
Hops Stationary - Shoppers Forum
If Only - Cushman St. Downtown
Proceeds help fund local scholarships for women returning to school.

Tour outstanding homes, raise $ for scholarships!

Tuesday

Emerging Issues in Reproductive Health Care and Family Planning


7 pm, Wednesday, June 2nd
Reichard Building, Room 201
UAF Campus, Fairbanks

An engaging lecture featuring Cecile Richards

Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood of America, will discuss the current state of reproductive health care access in the United States, addressing such issues as birth control, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, access to pregnancy options, and access to comprehensive sexual health education.

As you may know, Cecile Richards is the daughter of the dynamic and legendary Governor Anne Richards of Texas. Don't miss this amazing opportunity to meet Cecile Richards in her first ever visit to the farthest north Planned Parenthood! 


Friday

Really FREE Market - Saturday, May 22


Get in on Recycling and Sustainability at UAF and in Fairbanks!
Really FREE Market 
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010-Patty Center Parking lot-UAF

Participate any or all of the following ways:


  • volunteers needed for time slots from 8am to 2pm - call or email Lydia Anderson lmanderson(at)alaska.edu, or phone 474-7037 to volunteer 

  • 8am-10am drop off clean, safe, usable items at the UAF Patty Center parking lot

  • 10am-1pm come by after 10am, take what you need, enjoy the Really FREE Market: music, community, sharing, FREE-cycling!
Contact Lydia now, to volunteer!

By SHARING we sustain each other AND our community!

Tuesday

CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS ! CELEBRATING CULTURE & DIVERSITY !!

Come join us in Celebrating Culture and Diversity! Everyone is invited! Come with your friends!

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Thursday

7/8ths of the Iceberg: the Rest of Writing

Join Cindy Hardy, poets, poetry fans, writers, & others
for
7/8ths of the Iceberg: the Rest of Writing
a Craft Talk by Cindy Hardy
Wood Center Conference Room C/D
Friday, April 30th 3:30-4:30 pm

PLUS

Cindy Hardy and Jean Anderson will be reading from their works on Saturday night, May 1st, 7pm, at the Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park aka Alaskaland. They will finish their reading in time to scoot over to the Empress for the staged reading of Tom Moran's play.
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Cindy Hardy was born in Salisbury, Maryland and grew up in horse and farm country in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Penn State University and holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi.

A past recipient of an Alaska State Council on the Arts Individual Artist grant, Cindy has published poems and stories in Permafrost, The Northern Review, and Ice-Floe: An International Journal of the Far North. Her chapbook, We Tempt Our Luck, was a finalist in the 2008 Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Chapbook competition. Her poetry collection Beneath a Portrait of a Horse is newly published by Salmon Press of Ireland.

Cindy writes poems of longing, disappointment, and discovery, of the natural world bumping up against the man-made world, of the small places where we can find respite—the crack in a sidewalk, a conversation on a ferry, the taste of ginger or coffee. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she teaches at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, dances, gardens, and tends the horses that appear in her poems.

Wednesday

Thursday, April 29th - Gender & Health Care Panel

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Before (or after) the Gender & Health Care Panel, Dine Out to support the Interior AIDS Association (see blog post below)

DINE OUT FOR LIFE

Join in supporting Interior AIDS Association.
Date : April 29th
Dine out at local restaurants with friends while supporting HIV prevention! Participating restaurants will donate a portion of their proceeds to Interior AIDS Association.
For more information and list of participating restaurants:
Ivory Jacks - 11am to 5pm
Bobby's Downtown - Dinner
Lavelle's Bistro - Dinner

Thursday

The Clothesline Project

Come by the Women's Center on Friday from 10am until 3pm to make a t-shirt for the Clothesline Project.
 Photo taken from http://www.clotheslineproject.org/Photos.htm
Originally contributed by Kathy J,   Domestic Violence Specialist @ A Safe Place, NH
 
The Clothesline Project (CLP) is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem of violence against women. 
The t-shirts made at the Women's Center on Friday will be displayed at the Take Back The Night Rally on Friday April 23, 2010 at the UAF campus.   
The Women's Center is located at 112 Eielson Hall on the UAF Campus.

For more information on the Clothesline Project go to 

Wednesday

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

Take back the night is a rally and march to raise awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault.
A rally will be held in front of wood center with a Guest speaker, FOOD, Representatives from various local organization and a march around campus.

Date : April 23, 2010

Place: UAF Campus- Infront of Wood Center

Time: 4.00pm

Event Sponsor: Organization of Student Social Workers
Alaska Native Social Work Association
Interior Alaska Center For Non Violent Living
UAF Women's Center

Saturday

UWA Undergraduate Scholarships

DEADLINE EXTENDED
Now due: April 16, 2010
Apply NOW!
The University Women's Association (UWA) provides scholarships for undergraduate women at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Application deadline for 2010-11 has been extended to April 16, 2010.

Scholarship Requirements

Female applicants enrolled in the Associate Degree program who meet the following minimum requirements will be considered:

  • demonstrated financial need
  • current enrollment of 9 credits or more at UAF in a field of study leading to an Associate Degree
  • a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA based on a minimum of 9 credit hours
  • strong faculty and/or employer recommendations
Female applicants enrolled in the Bachelors Degree program who meet the following minimum requirements will be considered:

  • demonstrated financial need
  • completion of at least 12 credit hours for each of the two preceding semesters (at UAF or another institution)
  • a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA based on a minimum of 9 credit hours
  • current enrollment as a full-time (12 credit) UAF undergraduate in a degree program with at least sophomore standing
  • strong faculty and/or employer recommendations
Additional information and application forms available at http://www.uaf.edu/uwa/scholarship.html

Pam Mitchell Hoy Memorial Scholarship

Pam Mitchell Hoy 1947-1990
2010-2011 Pam Mitchell Hoy Memorial Scholarship application now available online  http://www.uaf.edu/cla/hoy.app.02.10.pdf

Pam Mitchell Hoy loved all animals, but especially enjoyed dogs. Pam raised and showed Italian Greyhounds and worked as a vet tech for two decades in North Carolina. She was a strong and vocal advocate for dogs and other pets. Pam was killed in 1990 and her murder remains unsolved.

This scholarship is given in Pam’s honor to encourage students to be advocates for women and animals.

To qualify for this scholarship you must have earned at least 24 credit hours prior to the start of the fall 2010 semester, have a minimum GPA of 3.5 and meet one of the following criteria:
  • be a declared minor in Women’s Studies,
  • be enrolled in the Veterinary Science Certificate Program,
  • be a declared major or minor in Justice, or
  • have made significant and positive contributions to the community on behalf of women or animals 
Application http://www.uaf.edu/cla/hoy.app.02.10.pdf must be submitted by April 16, 2010.

Friday

The Vagina Monologues

UAF will be treated to two performances of the
Vagina Monologues   

Saturday, April 17th at 8pm
and
Sunday, April 18th at 2pm

Both performances will take place in Schaible Auditorium in Bunnell Building.

Prices are $8 for students, $10 general admission.

Wednesday

Patricia Smith - Midnight Sun Visiting Writer - April 2nd 7:00 pm


The Midnight Sun Visiting Writer Series presents poet Patricia Smith Friday April 2nd at 7:00 pm in the Wood Center Ballroom at UAF.


Patricia's groundbreaking book -- Blood Dazzler -- which chronicles the human, emotional and physical toll exacted by Hurricane Katrina -- was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and one of NPR’s Top Books of 2008!

Find out more about Smith, and hear her work at http://www.wordwoman.ws/performances.html


This event is sponsored by the UAF, English Department.


Contact 474-7193 ~ ejkim2@alaska.edu for more info

Friday

Choose Respect Community Rally - March 31, 2010


Choose Respect
Alaskans Ending the Epidemic of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Join in the Community-Wide Rally

March 31, 2010
NOON
Golden Heart Plaza
Fairbanks, Alaska

The Parnell Administration invites Alaskans to join with Fairbanks community partners as - together - we take a stand against domestic violence and sexual assault in our state. Together we can make a difference!

For more information, please contact the Fairbanks Office of the Governor:
907-451-2920

Monday

Celebrating the Power of Women's Voices - Women's History & Culture Month Keynote RECORDING


***Accessing the Recording***

Below is the URL for the recording of Diane Benson's Keynote Address:


The recording was made through Elluminate LIVE. If you haven’t been into Elluminate LIVE before you might have to download or update java on your computer, and also accept a license agreement, etc.

To access the recording - Click on the link to the recording (above):

when the login screen opens click on the GUEST button,


• enter an email address and name, then click on "Play."

• Click on "Open" in the dialog box that appears.

Depending on whether the computer being used is updated, the computer might have to download some java files in order to play the Elluminate Live recording of the event. (If on a slow dial-up connection the recording might take some time to load). Speakers or headphones are required to hear the audio from the presentation.

Sunday

Women's History & Culture Month - Tale of Two Disappearing Women


Thursday
March 25
1:00-2:00pm
Alumni Lounge

Sociologist Sine Anahita tells the story of two innovative women advocates for Southern Appalachia, Marguerite Butler and Olive Dame Campbell, who are disappearing from the popular historical record.


Friday

International Women's Day- Women & Community Water Projects by Josie Sam

To view a recording of Josie Sam's presentation (recorded during the Cross-Cultural Psychology class 3/17/10 click on the following URL
http://elive.uaf.edu/play_recording.html?recordingId=1233801250389_1268856157967
To access the recording, when the login screen opens click on the GUEST button, enter an email address and name, then click on "Play." Click on "Open" in the dialog box that appears. Your computer might have to down load some java files in order to play the Elluminate Live recording of the event. (If you are on a slow dial-up connection the recording might take some time to load).

Josie Sam presented her emerging research “How Does Improved Access To Clean Water Impact Rural Communities? Measuring and Evaluating the Impact of Water Projects in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of Central Region, Ghana” for our UAF International Women’s Day event Friday, March 5th, 2010. Josie Sam is from Ghana, West Africa. She completed a Bachelor’s degree at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana with a double major in English and History. She has worked with organizations dealing with women and children’s rights, microfinance and rural development, and is currently working on a Masters degree in Natural Resource Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, with a focus on rural development and gender issues.

Josie's Master’s thesis will examine how improved access to clean water impacts the lives of rural Ghanaians in terms of health, education, women’s empowerment, and community participation in development projects and governance. She is interested in studying the potential for gender-sensitive development interventions to change gender and social disparities. The objective is to ensure equitable access to, and control over, resources, benefits, costs, and decision-making between men and women.
Josie Sam and some of her adoring audience from the Rural Sociology class.

Tuesday

Writing Women Back into History

Thursday, March 4, 1:00-2:00pm
Alumni Lounge

How do you go about finding the “anonymous” women in history?
 
Join History professor, Dr. Carol Gold, for engaging and entertaining descriptions of her work writing women back into history. Dr. Gold searched historic archives to find out about women’s lives in pre-industrial urban Copenhagen. Some questions her research uncovered:
 
What is the story of Mrs. Berling, who ran a newspaper as well as a brewery for 15 years, and was accused of watering down her beer?

How did widow C.J. Black come to own three warehouses in downtown Copenhagen, and to advertise widely about ships' cargo she had for sale?

Why did Gunnel Marie travel for 15 years with her journeyman Tobias, yet never get married?

Explore these questions and more, with Dr. Carol Gold.

For more information:

Email fywoc@uaf.edu Call 907-474-6311