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The Alaska Sea Grant Community-Engaged Fellowship (CEF) program is now accepting applications from students interested in becoming fellows in 2025. Projects will be based in coastal communities and may have research, outreach, education or communication themes. 

The program’s goal is to encourage students to pursue careers in coastal and marine sciences and related fields in Alaska by providing training and mentorship to early-stage university and community college students. CEF does this by providing training and mentorship to early-stage university and community college students as well as recent graduates from high school or college. 

To find out more about being a fellow as well as the projects being offered this summer, please see our webpage at the link below. Should you have further inquiries, feel free to contact the Alaska Sea Grant’s CEF coordination team at seagrant.fellowships@alaska.edu.

Application review starts March 1. Final deadline to apply is April 1.

Suzi Tanski
907.474.6092
Aug. 28, 2024

Minnie Naylor has taken on the role of interim director of the 51�������� Northwest Campus, while continuing her leadership as director of the 51�������� Chukchi Campus, a position she has held since Aug. 1, 2022. Naylor is originally from Kotzebue and has family from Shishmaref and Noatak. Naylor’s deep passion for expanding educational opportunities in the Northwest Arctic region, combined with her broad experience in academic and administrative roles, makes her an exceptional choice for this dual responsibility. Her work has consistently demonstrated a profound commitment to student success and equitable access to resources, embodying the values we strive to uphold across all our campuses. 

Jackie Hrabok led a 35-hour two-credit reindeer meat production class in Nome, HLRM F160 Reindeer Meat Production on March 27-April 2.

The class consisted of 15 hours of lessons in meat chemistry, slaughterhouse design, and commercial USDA regulations for harvesting. These lessons were put to use in 17 hours of hands-on butchering, grinding meat, and making burgers and reindeer jerky. 

Students made 122 portions of vacuum-packed reindeer jerky and distributed them at the WAISC Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference in Nome. A USDA Indigenous Meat Production grant of the Drumbeats Alaska Consortium High Latitude Range Management program sponsored student travel, equipment, supplies and material, and meat studio classroom renovations. 

Jackie said it was the first time she had taught this class in English. Previous classes were in Finnish at the European Union-sanctioned slaughterhouse in Toivoniemi, Finland.

"Teamwork among Mother Earth, herders, Bering Air, colleagues, an emotional support dog, Amazon Prime shipping, and No. 1 students supported this goodness, not to mention the generous USDA funding," she said.

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While all University of Alaska (UA) institutions offer unique traditional Alaska Native courses on languages and arts, the 51��������’ () Northwest Campus (NWC) offers an atigi, or a traditional King Island parka making course.  

Among the three UA colleges, 51��������, University of Alaska Southeast (), and University of Alaska Anchorage (), 51�������� stands as the only university in the United States to offer a class in traditional parka crafting.

Jackie Hrabok, 51��������'s Northwest Campus assistant professor of High Latitude Range Management, hosted and led an international cultural exchange for the Alaska Reindeer Directors. Delegates were from Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, the Kawerak Reindeer Herders Association and the Kawerak Environmental Department.