Saskatoon Canada - The University of the Arctic's (UArctic) undergraduate office has a new staff member from Norway.

Department for international and interregional relations of the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district, Russia, is organizing an International Youth Art contest "Faces of the North".

As part of the Education and Outreach Program of the International Polar Year (IPY), UArctic is involved in organising an "International Summer School on Sea Ice".

The University of Saskatchewan has renewed its commitment in the University of the Arctic with a memorandum of understanding stating it will continue to host the institution’s office of undergraduate studies until 2009.

World Environment Day in 2007 will feature Arctic Climate Change.    

University of Alberta Vice-President (Research), Dr. Gary Kachanoski, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Marianne Douglas as director of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI) effective 1 September 2006.

A book written by a friend of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) about the relationship between indigenous North Americans and settler authorities is now on bookstore shelves.  

NUFF Global is being launched now, as a worldwide call for young filmmakers everywhere to submit film ideas on Climate Change.

Sept. 13, 2006Fairbanks, Alaska-The U.S. State Department Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs has awarded the University of Alaska Fairbanks a $150,000 grant to help establish the UAF International Polar Year education and outreach office. The office was created in conjunction with the University of the Arctic.  

Linked to the themes of Finland's chairmanship of the European Union, the Centre of International Mobility CIMO, the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Ministry of Education wish to give a boost to student and faculty mobility between EU and Russia.

Fairbanks, Alaska- University of the Arctic (UArctic) officials honored University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Provost Paul Reichardt for his contributions to UArctic, at the Helge Ingstad Memorial Symposium on Arctic Change, a two-day symposium held at UAF Sept. 8-9.

The Undergraduate Studies Office for the University of the Arctic invites students from all UArctic member institutions to study northern topics in online global classrooms with students from Russia, Greenland, Denmark, Canada, Alaska, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland!