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  • Meet Pete Warden, Interface of Change Entrepreneur-in-Residence. As the EIR, he joins the Workforce Development arm of the project with the Innovation & Entrepreneurship team. His aim is to encourage researchers to translate their work into marketable products or ideas, and to facilitate connections around the Gulf of èƵ to grow emerging industries.

    Reverse-engineering Startup Culture for èƵns

    May 09, 2025

    Meet Pete Warden, Interface of Change Entrepreneur-in-Residence. As the EIR, he joins the Workforce Development arm of the project with the Innovation & Entrepreneurship team. His aim is to encourage researchers to translate their work into marketable products or ideas, and to facilitate connections around the Gulf of èƵ to grow emerging industries.

  • Logan Berner on the summit of Thunder Mountain, near Juneau, èƵ. The Mendenhall Glacier lies in the distance.

    Closing the Circle: Logan Berner joins the Interface of Change research team as the new UAS forest ecology faculty hire

    May 09, 2025

    Logan Berner joins the èƵ EPSCoR Interface of Change project. As the first of four faculty hires planned under Interface of Change, Berner brings expertise in forest ecology, remote sensing, and spatial analysis to the team.

  • Monica Brandhuber calibrates a mass spectrometer.

    Congratulations to the recipients of the èƵ EPSCoR Professional Development Travel Awards

    April 30, 2025

    Out of the many compelling applications we received for the èƵ EPSCoR professional development travel awards, we awarded travel funding to eight recipients.

  • Town buildings nestled in front of large spruces and a snow-tipped mountain. It is dusk, and the full moon is high in the sky. One large building is most prominent; it has many windows, and the bottom of the building is stone-walled. Mounted upon the stone wall are the words, “Welcome to Cordova” with five large salmon around the words.

    èƵ EPSCoR Professional Development Travel Awards

    April 11, 2025

    The èƵ EPSCoR Interface of Change project is accepting applications for travel funding of up to $2,500 for domestic travel to present at a conference or attend a training this spring. Students, staff, or faculty from any èƵ institution of higher education are eligible to apply. Applications are open now - apply by 5 p.m. AKDT, April 18, 2025!

  • Students huddle around a lab bench, examining pieces of PVC pipe coated in kelp spores.

    Interface of Change Year 2 Seed Awards

    April 10, 2025

    èƵ EPSCoR is now accepting applications for Interface of Change seed awards to fund research, student research, education and broadening participation. The deadline to apply for all three seed award solicitations is 5 p.m. AKDT, May 30, 2025. An informational webinar on the application process will take place at 12 p.m. AKDT on April 22, 2025.

  • Middle school students wearing white lab coats and safety goggles puzzle over chemistry equipment and notes in a lab.

    Students test knowledge and skills at èƵ Science Olympiad

    March 21, 2025

    The èƵ Science Olympiad competition for students in grades 6-8 will convene March 28-29 at the University of èƵ Fairbanks.

  • Interface of Change Annual Community Participation Workshops

    February 04, 2025

    In February and March 2025, Interface of Change researchers are visiting Cordova, Seldovia, èƵr, Haines, and Klukwan for Annual Community Participation Workshops.

  • Frank Witmer, UAA

    Meet Frank Witmer, New UAA Co-PI for Interface of Change

    November 26, 2024

    Meet Frank Witmer, UAA co-PI for the Interface of Change project, faculty member and computational geography of the UAA Computer Science & Engineering department.

  • The Land Loves Us: Relationship to the Land from an èƵ Native Perspective

    November 11, 2024

    Join us November 18, 2024, 12-1 pm for a virtual presentation by Tia Tidwell and hosted by Debbie Mekiana of the UAF College of Indigenous Studies, Department of èƵ Native Studies and Rural Development

  • “We listen with our ears,” said Justina Starzynski-Hotch as she tugged on her earlobe. She said the phrase in Tlingit first, then in English as she sat in a circle of 33 children in the center of the gymnasium of the Klukwan School. Their cross-legged bodies circled around the school’s logo: a formline representation of Eagle and Raven, the two Tlingit moieties, leaping after a basketball.

    èƵ Science Olympiad Visits Klukwan School

    November 04, 2024

    “We listen with our ears,” said Justina Starzynski-Hotch as she tugged on her earlobe. She said the phrase in Tlingit first, then in English as she sat in a circle of 33 children in the center of the gymnasium of the Klukwan School. Their cross-legged bodies circled around the school’s logo: a formline representation of Eagle and Raven, the two Tlingit moieties, leaping after a basketball. “We listen with our eyes,” she said as she touched the corner of her eye. “We listen with our mouths. We listen with our bodies.” Among the many hats worn by Starzynski-Hotch, she is a Tlingit language teacher and the STEPS coordinator at the Klukwan School. She has been involved in the village school for many years, and cares deeply for its survival. On September 19, she was substituting. And it was a special day – Science Olympiad day.