New hires, transitions and recognition
Staff Announcements
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Mike Hostina announces retirement
February 28, 2020
Mike Hostina, general counsel for the Â鶹´«Ã½, announced his retirement during the February Board of Regents meeting. Hostina will step down at the end of May.
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Stuart Relay joins Office of Public Affairs as a student assistant
February 28, 2020
As a Ted Stevens Legislative Intern, Stuart Relay was taught lessons not included in textbooks. Now he is using the communication skills he learned working for Representative Chris Tuck to help the Â鶹´«Ã½ communicate more effectively with the students we serve.
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Nycolett Ripley selected as Â鶹´«Ã½F Human Resources Sr. Business Partner
February 28, 2020
Â鶹´«Ã½ Chief Human Resources Officer Steve Patin announced this week that Nycolett Ripley has been selected to serve the Â鶹´«Ã½ Fairbanks as its Human Resources Senior Business Partner. In this role, Ripley will serve the Â鶹´«Ã½F administration, staff, and faculty as a functional expert, liaison, consultant and point of contact in direct contact and coordination with the Â鶹´«Ã½ Human Resources Team.
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Leyalle Harris shares her recipe for college success
January 31, 2020
When Leyalle Harris started her freshman year at the University of Idaho (UI), her brother-in-law gave her some advice that became her secret sauce that for college success.
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Eric Johnson on learning the value of data and being on time
January 31, 2020
It was colder than average for early April in Fairbanks, but, like the climate, that was soon to change. As the cries of a newborn baby filled the air of a small room at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, the city's residents could already sense the returning sunlight bring life back to the Arctic. Winter was over.
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Rory O'Neill: Expanding access to data to improve Â鶹´«Ã½
November 27, 2019
Hailing from Philadelphia via Ireland on both sides, Rory O'Neill grew up in the middle-Atlantic region where his parents and siblings still reside. In 1993 he and a brother visited another brother in Ketchikan, and the three of them toured the state. Tourists believed that O'Neill 's duster, cowboy hat and command of a gold pan and draft horses meant he was an Alaskan. Two brothers returned home, one decided to abandon his tenure track biomedical engineering position at Johns Hopkins.
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Walker Wheeler's educational and professional journeys intertwine at Â鶹´«Ã½
November 27, 2019
Walker Wheeler’s more than 15 years at the Â鶹´«Ã½ has been a long and varied career and educational journey. He has been working in university IT since he came to the Â鶹´«Ã½ Fairbanks to study computer science.
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Linda Hall: accounting for adventure
October 25, 2019
For Linda Hall, accounting hasn't always been about crunching numbers, it's also been an international adventure.
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Genevieve Bright enjoys the challenges of "oddball sports"
October 25, 2019
Whether it's riding a tiny motorcycle across Romania, or running a marathon, Genevieve Bright has never backed down from challenging herself.
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From avocation to vocation: how Victoria Carver's fitness journey paved her life's work
October 23, 2019
For Victoria Carver training for the Ironman was more than a quest for wellness, it became a calling. Graduating from college was the wake-up call Carver needed to realize that she wasn't happy with herself or her life. She led a sedentary life, exercising sporadically, mostly just before a vacation or an event that required her to wear a nice dress.