Urbana University Board of Trustees announced Monday that Stephen B. Jones, Ph.D. was elected to the presidency of Urbana University by unanimous vote of the board. Dr. Jones is the current Chair for the University of the Arctic Board Governors.

The deadline for the "Marine Microbial Ecology in the Arctic: Theory, Facts, and Modeling" course has been extended to Friday, 16 May 2008.

Former Secretariat employee Scott Forrest is returning to the UArctic family to oversee the development of an engaging new project, the UArctic Atlas. The Atlas project will bring together a consortium of key holders of mappable data to integrate information about the region with an easy-to-use online map viewing tool.

The ARCUS 20th Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum 2008 will be held 13-15 May 2008, in Washington, DC. The theme of this year's meeting is "Tipping Points - The Arctic and Global Change." The deadline for registration and poster abstract submission is Friday, 2 May 2008.

The College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology and Geography, at the University of Alaska Anchorage invite students to participate in the upcoming archaeological field school, to be held 5 July-8 August 2008. The field school will focus on excavation of the Little John Paleoindian Site in the Alaska / Yukon b...

The Air Quality Research Division of Environment Canada announces a postdoctoral fellowship in atmospheric sciences. The candidate will participate in the Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea-Ice-Snow interactions in Polar Regions (OASIS-CANADA) Program.

The organizers of the VI International Moose Symposium invite paper  submissions for presentation and inclusion in the abstract volume at the upcoming symposium, to be held 13-23 August 2008, in Yakutsk, Russia. The theme of this symposium is "Moose in Virgin and Anthropogenic Altered Landscapes."

The Canadian Science Writers' Association (CSWA) is holding its annual meeting May 24 to 27, 2008 at Yukon College in Whitehorse, Yukon. Scientists are invited to submit a 100-word poster abstract their discussing your northern research.

The Parks Canada Agency invites applications for a two-year position as a postdoctoral researcher in the Canadian Government Laboratories with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). The position is located at the Parks Canada Western and Northern Service Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The aim...

The 2008 European Conference of the Association of Borderland Studies will be held at the University of Tromsø/Barents Institute, in Kirkenes Norway from 11-13 September 2008

The Churchill Northern Studies Center (CNSC), in Churchill, Manitoba, announces a Program Assistant position. The Program Assistant will work closely with the Program Coordinator to deliver a variety of educational programs to adult learners, seniors and school-aged children.

The Tromso Museum announces the "Exploring Domestic Spaces in the Circumpolar North" conference, to be held 2-4 October 2008, at the museum in Tromso, Norway.

As part of a year long celebration of the University of Alberta's Centenary, the School of Energy and the Environment is hosting its signature event - the Canadian Arctic Summit - to be held Wednesday through Friday, 28-30 May 2008, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada at the University of Alberta.

Alexey Shcherbakov of the Sakhan Republican Teachers' Professional Skills Advancement Institute from Sakha Republic, in North-East Russia visited the UArctic International Secretariat today, April 23 2008. Alexey's visit to the Secretariat in Rovaniemi, Finland, coincided with his trip to Kautokeino in Finnmark, Norway. Needl...