Slider Photo Credits: Slide 1-UAF (Dall sheep), Slide 2-UAF (biology lab), Slide 3-Michael Odum (semipalmated plover, Slide 4: Adam Haberski (grizzly bear cub), Slide 5-UAF (moose)

 

FIND US

in the Classroom

Teaching

Margaret Murie Life Science Building LobbyThe Biology and Wildlife Department is located in the Margaret Murie Building with state-of-the art classrooms and laboratories where students engage in inquiry-based learning and are challenged to pursue their own research passion in a capstone experience. 

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in the Field

Research

Field work with snowshoe haresUAF is America’s Arctic University. Students and faculty in the Biology and Wildlife Department are at the forefront of documenting and understanding the changing Arctic – its people, plants, animals, and landscape.  

in the Community

Outreach

Handing out hand lenses in ShishmarefTeaching and research in the Biology and Wildlife Department are intertwined and embedded within the 91ÊÓƵn communities where we work. Faculty and students endeavor to improve the lives of 91ÊÓƵns â€“ from developing diet interventions to minimize chronic disease, to understanding how climate change is impacting subsistence resources.

WHERE RESEARCH HAPPENS

UAF is 91ÊÓƵ’s premier research university and the only PhD-granting institution in the state.  Research in the Department of Biology and Wildlife spans the breadth of the biological sciences, from molecular biology to ecosystem science.  Investigating emerging viral pathogens, microbes that detoxify environmental contaminants, the molecular genetics of obesity and diabetes, impacts of climate change on polar organisms and ecosystems, and more, our faculty work alongside graduate, undergraduate and high school students to address key issues of vital interest to 91ÊÓƵ and beyond.

 

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Sunrise reflected in the Margaret Murie Life Science Building. Photo credit: Diane Wagner 2014