| Summary: | Geography -- Counting on tradition: Math in a Cultural Context Adds Up: This award-winning educational program provides resources for teachers in math, geography, social studies, and other curricula, using Yup'ik concepts. / Nancy Tarnai -- Forest Sciences -- Log cabin building workshop: From Hangar to Woods: A hands-on workshop using local material resulted in a recreational cabin for the Sitka Ranger District. / Valerie Barber -- High-Latitude Agriculture -- The Midnight Sun-flower: Selection for early maturity in a sunwheat cultivar began sixteen years ago, resulting in a new but unofficial variety. / Bob Van Veldhuizen -- Natural Resources -- Biomass fuels: Local Energy, Local Jobs, and Community Resilience: Affordable, sustainable sources of heating fuel may be within walking distance of interior Alaska's rural communities. / Nancy Fresco and F. Stuart Chapin III -- How to save Old Faithful: Geyser Protection Areas: Geothermal power generation holds great promise as an alternative energy source, but unless it is managed carefully, another important natural resource will go extinct: the world's geyser basins. / Kenneth Barrick -- Two for the Peace Corps: The Peace Corps masters international program at SNRAS is seeing its first returnee from two years of corps work and graduate coursework, and its second entrant into the corps. / Nancy Tarnai -- Events, People, & Places -- The IPY at UAF: The 4th International Polar Year has drawn on a long history of global scientific cooperation. UAF and SNRAS scientists are at the forefront of work on global change. / Nancy Tarnai and the IPY International Programme Office -- A sustainable PhD -- Kerttula Hall dedication -- James Drew: piloting agriculture -- Leslie A. Viereck: infectious curiosity -- News & Publications
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