At its weekly meeting on Sept. 10, the ASUAF Senate focused on several issues impacting students, from campus dining and study spaces to travel funding and course evaluations.

Read the September 1 - 15, 2025 UAF crime log

UAF sophomore Fernando Escobar is currently serving as the sole student regent on the University of Alaska Board of Regents, composed of 11 board members.

Members of The Sun Star embarked on a culinary tour of the third annual food truck rally, held as part of the Starvation Gulch celebration on Saturday, Sept. 13.

If your immediate thought upon seeing that title was to think about milk, then you wouldn’t be the first. Despite its deceiving name, lacto-fermentation doesn’t necessarily involve milk or lactose.

The 3rd Annual Currant Fest was celebrated at the Georgeson Botanical Gardens at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, bringing together the whole Fairbanks community to celebrate the growing and preservation of currant berries.

We asked incoming freshmen what they were excited about experiencing at UAF.

Mycologist Noah Siegel, co-author of “Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast” and a nationally recognized fungi expert, spoke to over 100 attendees at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’s Murie Auditorium on August 22, 2025.

On August 26 this year’s recipients of the Peter Mackeith Grant presented their expedition to the Stikine Icecap. The team consisted of Torin Hooge, Simeon Ramirez, Hazel Probst and Leo Nordman.  The team set out to climb three major peaks in the area: Kate’s Needle, Castle Mountain, and Mount Pratt. 

The International Chamber Music Alaska, or ICMA, Summer Intensive was held from August 11-16, filling the Davis Concert Hall with the sounds of live chamber music.

Can a 27 year-old Subaru make it 1,000 miles from Fairbanks to Ninilchik and back? That was what I set out to test when I left Fairbanks for Salmonfest.

On July 29 at the Experiment Farm, UAF’s Agricultural Institute hosted a field day for the farmers, researchers, and gardeners of the Interior. Despite the pouring rain which continued through most of the day, dozens of people braved the elements to see the various educational talks and discuss agriculture related questions with researchers. 

Bagpipes, kilts and cheers filled the air Saturday, Aug. 9, as the Alaska Dog Mushers Association field on Farmers Loop Road hosted the inaugural Midnight Sun Scottish Highland Games.

And just like that, a brand-new year is here at UAF! Whether you’re stepping onto campus for the first time, meeting new friends, finding your way, or you’re returning to UAF, let me be among the first to say, welcome.

Starting your first semester at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is a bit like stepping into a whole new climate – and not just because of the freezing temperatures. UAF is more than a campus; it’s a tight-knit community surrounded by Alaska’s wilderness.

The beginning of life for birds is pretty simple – most start off with being hatched in a nest in a tree. For the horned lark, their nest is buried in the ground.

On Monday, April 14, and Tuesday, April 29, the Sun Star team had the unique opportunity to visit the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and get a behind-the-scenes look at how our April issue was printed.

Karenna Merritt, a UAF-Geophysical Institute graduate student who works with the Alaska Volcano Observatory, or AVO, is inspired to collect data on volcanoes.

On May 7, 2025, the University of Alaska Fairbanks community was shaken by the tragic deaths of two student leaders, Cassidy Musard and Oakley Powell.