University of Alaska Fairbanks

University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in Fairbanks, Alaska, is a public research university in the United States. The University of Alaska System is the flagship campus. UAF is a land-grant, sea grant and space-grant institution and is also participating in the solar grant program with Oregon State University. UAF UAF initially established in 1917 and then 1975, 1925, called the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines as the University of Alaska and was opened for classes in 1922.

UAF is home to the seven major research units: Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station; Poker Flat Research Range operations Geophysical Institute; International Arctic Research Center; Arctic Region Super Center; Institute of Arctic Biology; Institute of Marine Sciences; Institute of Northern Engineering. Located just 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle to Fairbanks campus '' it is positively unique location for Arctic and northern research. The research campus' few lines, the most important worldwide polar biology, arctic engineering, geophysics, supercomputing and domestic work are famous. University of Alaska Museum of the North in Fairbanks campus.

In addition to the campus in Fairbanks, UAF encompasses seven rural and urban campuses Dillingham Bristol Bay Campus; Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue; and Interior-Aleutians Campus including the Aleutian Islands and Interior; Kuskokwim Campus in Bethel; Nome Northwest Campus; UAF Community and Technical College in Fairbanks, UAF community college and arm. Fairbanks e-Learning and Distance Education, is making an independent learning and home to the remote delivery schedule.

In autumn 2013, 10214 students were UAF. These students were female and 40.7 percent male and 59.3; There were 88 percent of undergraduate and graduate students had 12 percent. As of May 2013, just before summer 1288 students graduated in the fall and spring semester

History

University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to set the tone for a strongly research-station Mining Alaska Agricultural College and the High School was founded in 1917, but the origins In 1906, Fairbanks was lying the establishment of federal agricultural experiment station is then developed with a focus on universities.

In the spring of 1915, the US Congress around the land for a campus of about 2,250 acre research station has upheld the law. Also it examined in the Tanana Valley and had been derelict land has allowed the federal government to the university; sales and revenue development was supposed to help finance college studies. Most land in the Tanana Valley, which had yet to study for many years, however, the university received only 12,000 acres. In 1929, Congress tried to Alaska in order to rectify the situation by giving additional 100,000 acres to the university, but those rights were extinguished when the state of Alaska in 1959

Four months after Congress passed legislation in 1915 to land the campus, on a bluff overlooking a valley landmark lower Chena River to university it has been taken by the Regional Delegate James Wickersham. soon known as College Hill Yeddh the native Athabaskan people Troth called 'back ,. Charles E. Bunnell was appointed the university's CEO and was served the university for 28 years. new institution, had the first opening day on September 18, 1922, and (ratio of students per faculty member) offered six student body of 16 different courses. In 1923, the first to start a license, produced SHANLY John Sexton.

In 1935, the Alaska Legislature adopted a bill officially changed its name University of Alaska college. William R. Wood when the university's president in 1960, it is divided into six academic departments of the university college selection: Art and Literature; Behavioral Sciences and Education; Biological Sciences and Renewable Resources; Business, Economics and Government; Earth Science and Mineral Industry; and Math, Science and Engineering. From this point on, both the student population and research mission of the university has grown tremendously. Then, with Prime Minister Howard A. Cutler appointment in 1975, it was the University of Alaska Fairbanks University of Alaska; It was and still is the main research unit of the university system across the country.

The other two primer institutions University of Alaska Anchorage and Juneau is located in the University of Alaska Southeast.

Academic

Schools and colleges 
UAF has nine academic schools and colleges:

Faculty of Engineering and Mines (CEM)
College of Liberal Arts (CLA)
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (CNSM)
College of Rural and Community Development (CRCD)
Master
Faculty of Education
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences (SFOS)
School of Management (SOM)
Natural Resources and Extension (SNRA) School
available in more than 120 disciplines are 190 different degree and certificate programs.