The total number UArctic Thematic Networks currently operating rose to 11, when Thematic Networks on Northern Governance, Indigenous Arts and Crafts, and Arctic Learning Environment were endorsed at the 10th meeting of the Council of UArctic in Arkhangelsk June 4-8. 

The Council of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) expressed its strong support to the development of the graduate area during its 10th meeting hosted by Arkhangelsk State Technical University, Northern State Medical University and Pomor State University in Arkhangelsk, Russia, from June 4 to 8.

The University of Tromsø, Norway, will be hosting the international conference "Arctic Discourses",  on 21-23 February 2008. The conference will concentrate Arctic Discourses after Romanticism and up to present day, using approaches to such discourses developed within literary studies.

One of the cornerstones of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2009 is training the next generation of polar scientists, much like the International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1957-1958 served as the starting point for many of today's prominent scientists. "The New Generation Polar Research (NGPR) Symposium" is an NSF-funded...

The annual UArctic Council Meeting 2007 will be held in Arkhangelsk, Russia, on June 4-8.

Thirty-eight teachers and teacher educators from around the world gathered at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) campus in late March to participate in a professional development workshop sponsored by UAF’s Monitoring Seasons Through Global Learning Communities Project (“Seasons and Biomes Project”), which is part of Un...

 In 2006, Canadian student Natasha Letchford got an opportunity to study in Iceland through the UArctic north2north program.

The Thule Institute (http://thule.oulu.fi/englanti/index.html) at the University of Oulu, Finland, invites applications for two PhD student positions funded for four years (starting 1 September 2007) by the Academy of Finland, under the auspices of the Academy’s FiDiPro (Finland Distinguished Professor) Programme.

 

 

 

 

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