UAF Summer Sessions & Lifelong Learning

A new week of FREE events:

June 15 - Fairbanks Tall Timbers with Willie Blackburn at 7pm in the BP Design Theater, UAF Campus

June 16 - Healthy Living "Urinary and Sexual Health: What You Should Know" with Shannon Smith, MD, MPH at 7pm in the BP Design Theater, UAF Campus

June 17 - Discover Alaska "Stories from the Archives: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Moments" with Fawn Carter, MLIS, MA, Archivist at 7pm in the BP Design Theater, UAF Campus

June 18 - Music in the Garden at the Georgeson Botanical Garden with Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Choir at 6pm and Clarence Pate Project featuring Willie Blackburn at 7:30pm

See all our free events for the summer at uaf.edu/summer/events

UAF Summer Sessions & Lifelong Learning presents A Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on July 14 at 7 p.m. in the UAF Davis Concert Hall.

Preregistration for this free event is required and starts this Monday, June 15th at 10 a.m. See all the details at: uaf.edu/summer/justicejackson

Try a last minute spot for students going into grades: 6 - 9 or 4 - 6 with one of our many language camps or an athletically inclined camp to prepare for the fall season.

Kinder (German) Camp starts June 15 - 19
Transform your game: Athletic Conditioning and Stretching starts June 22 - 26
https://summer365.alaska.edu/

Another week of Free Events!

June 8 - Fairbanks Tall Timbers with Darrin 'Bear' Edson at 7pm in the BP Design Theater, UAF Campus

June 9 - Healthy Living "Vascular Causes for Leg Pain" with Mark Ombrellaro, MD at 7pm in the BP Design Theater, UAF Campus

June 10 - Discover Alaska "Moving Pictures, Moving Stories: What Our Film Archives Reveal " with Angela Schmidt, MA, Film Archivist at 7pm in the BP Design Theater, UAF Campus

June 11 - Music in the Garden at the Georgeson Botanical Garden with UAF Music Academy at 6pm and Ryan Bowers and the Brain Trust at 7:30pm

See all our free events for the summer at uaf.edu/summer/events

Every Monday this summer starting June 8 is Fairbanks Tall Timbers. Join accomplished journalist Tom Hewitt as he interviews these stalwart members of our community. At 7pm in the BP Design Theater (401 Usibelli Building, UAF) with free parking.
6/8/2025 - Darrin ‘Bear’ Edson
6/15/2025 - Willie Blackburn
6/22/2025 - Peggy Carlson
7/6/2025 - Emily Ennis
7/13/2025 - Corlis Taylor
7/20/2025 - Shelly Foint Anderson
7/27/2025 - Cathie Harms
8/3/2025 - Jane Atkinson & Doug Tolle
8/10/2025 - Robert Hannon
Visit the Events page at https://www.uaf.edu/summer/events/upcoming.php to watch the livestream if you can't attend in-person.

Stop by tomorrow for Headbolt Heaters at 6 pm and the Kit Carson and the Alaska Wompus Cats at 7:30 pm in the Georgeson Botanical Garden.

Parking room is available at the Nenana Parking lot (across the street from the Patty Center) with the free shuttle running from there to the garden between 5:30 pm to 9 pm. In the event of rain, Music in the Garden will take place under the covered Rotary pavilion in the garden (an umbrella and raincoat are still recommended).

See our most up to date events at uaf.edu/summer/events/upcoming.php

"Cultural Relevance in Tribal Libraries " will be presented by assistant professor of Library Science, Tyson Rinio. Join us in the BP Design Theater, on the 4th floor of the Usibelli Building. Thanks to our wonderful partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library
This Wednesday, June 3 at 7 pm, listen in-person or via the livestream at:
uaf.edu/summer/events/upcoming.php

"Why Hearing Matters: How Sound Shapes the Human Brain " with Lily Hughes, AuD.
At , 7 pm today!
In-person in the BP Design Theater, 401 Usibelli Engineering. Watch online at www.uaf.edu/summer/events/upcoming.php

Please plan to attend in-person or tune in 2 weeks from now for the 2026 Legacy Lecture Recording. No livestream will be available tonight.

An Evening with Lenny Kamerling, Monday, June 1 at 7pm, your attendance is requested in the University of Alaska Museum of the North Auditorium on UAF Campus. We will be honoring distinguished alumni Lenny Kamerling, with a reception to follow.

The Legacy Lecture and all our other free events will be livestreamed at uaf.edu/summer/events/upcoming.php

Leonard ‘ Lenny’ Kamerling, a native New Yorker whose father was a film distributor and whose mother was an artist, came to Alaska as a VISTA volunteer in the 1960s. He spent his first year in a Yup’ik village in southwest Alaska, where he made his first Alaskan film, People of Tununak. Teaming up with Sarah Elder, they developed a style of ethnographic filmmaking that emphasized collaboration with the Alaska Native villagers who were the subjects of their films, beginning with A Time of Whaling. Over the course of 50 years of service to the University, he became a creative force within our community, the state, and nationally and internationally. After completing his MFA, he taught English courses focused on film writing, as well as courses in anthropological and ethnographic film production, documentary journalism, and education. In 2005, he received the College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. From 1990 to 2020, Lenny served as Curator of Film for the University of Alaska Museum of the North. An award-winning cinematographer, he crafted some of the most powerful documentary films about Alaska Native culture. His best-known film, The Drums of Winter, is included in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, and twenty-two of his films have received international distribution. Not limited to Alaskan subjects, he also has a long-standing interest in Japanese culture, which resulted in his 1998 film Heart of the Country, as well as media production for the National Museum of Japanese History. In more recent years, he collaborated with Peter Biella on several films documenting Maasai family life and culture in Tanzania. Chenga Revisited examines the life of a Maasai tribesman over the course of 30 years. Lenny was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Norway in 2018–2019 at the University of Tromsø, where he continues to serve as a guest lecturer and film supervisor in visual anthropology. In 2020, upon his retirement from the University, he was honored as Professor of English and Curator of Film, Emeritus.