Ripple Effect Film Series: Red Gold
Summary: The first film in the Ripple Effects Film Series, Red Gold, documents the growing unrest among native, commercial and sport fishermen who oppose the proposed Pebble Mine as well as giving mine officials a chance to argue their case.
Location: Room 109 at KRC
Friday Dialogue: The Occupy Movement
Summary: This community dialogue will focus on the Occupy Movement and the Tea Party and will address the following questions: Do they have similar concerns? Is there an action plan that both can buy into? There will be a potluck and dialogue.
Location: McLane Commons at KRC
Geology of Pebble Mine
Summary: A presentation by Robin Smith, geologist with The Pebble Partnership, that will consider the following questions:
-How was this resource found and what is the geology of the area?
-What will it take to extract these materials out of the ground and what has Pebble done so far to develop this resource?
-What do the newly released environmental baseline studies show?
For more information, contact Leigh High at 262-0274 or iflah@kpc.alaska.edu.
Location: KRC Ward Building, rooms 107 and 108
Susan Share Books show on display in Gary L. Freeburg Gallery
Summary: An exhibition of Anchorage artist Susan Share's "books." According to KRC Associate Professor of Art Celia Anderson, ""This creative Anchorage artist gives a whole new meaning to the word 'book'!" For more information, contact Celia Anderson at 262-0361 or ifcra@kpc.alaska.edu.
Location: KRC G.L. Freeburg Gallery
Summer registration opens for returning admitted students
Deadline for UAA/KPC spring 2012 graduation application
KPC/UAA Nursing program changes: Informational session
Summary: Major changes to UAA/KPC nursing program will be outlined in an informational session by Marie Sampson, UAA coordinator of Student Affairs at the School of Nursing. Individual advising sessions also available at 1 p.m. (by appointment) Sign up at KRC Campus Services or call 262-0320.
Location: KRC Ward Building, room 109
"Closing of the Books" reception in the Gallery
Summary: Hear artist Susan Share talk about her art exhibit and enjoy the closing reception for the show. For more information, contact Celia Anderson at 262-036 or ifcra@kpc.alaska.edu.
Location: KRC G.L. Freeburg Gallery
Summer registration opens for general public
Ripple Effect Film Series: King Corn
Summary: King Corn is a documentary about two friends, one acre of corn and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Within the film, two friends from college move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most productive, most subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat and what we farm...
Location: Room 109 at KRC
Spring break: no classes held
Spring break: no classes held
Spring break: no classes held
Spring break: no classes held
Spring break: no classes held
Spring break: no classes held
Spring break: no classes held
Ripple Effect Film Series: Big River & Weather the Storm
Summary: Big River: The boys from King Corn (a previous film from the series) trade in their combine for a canoe and head down river to investigate the environmental impact their acre of corn has had on the people and places downstream.
Weather the Storm: Although the battle to save the oceans is often publicly waged between environmentalists and corporations, this film gives a voice to an important group who just may have the solutions we need: the small-scale artisanal fishers.
Location: Room 109 at KRC
Friday Dialogue: Electronic Media
Summary: This community dialogue will focus on electronic media and how it has changed our society. There will be a potluck and dialogue.
Location: McLane Commons at KRC
KRC now open Saturdays
Summary: Starting today, KRC will be open Saturdays from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. to provide students a study area for finals prep.
Location: KRC
$175 late payment fee assessed
Ripple Effect Film Series: We Feed the World
Summary: We Feed the World is a 2005 documentary in which Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat and views modern industrial production of food and factory farming in a critical light. His journey takes him to France, Spain, Romania, Switzerland, Brazil and back to Austria.
Location: Room 109 at KRC
Fall '12 priority registration opens for graduate students
Summary: Fall '12 priority registration opens for graduate students
Location: KPC/UAA
Fall '12 priority registration opens for admitted students: Senior status
Summary: Fall '12 priority registration opens for admitted students: Senior status
Location: KPC
Fall '12 priority registration opens for admitted students: Junior status
Summary: Fall '12 priority registration opens for admitted students: Junior status
Location: KPC
Fall '12 priority registration opens for admitted students: Sophomore status
Summary: Fall '12 priority registration opens for admitted students: Sophomore status
Location: KPC
Fall '12 priority registration opens for admitted students: Freshman status
Summary: Fall '12 priority registration opens for admitted students: Freshman status
Location: KPC
Ripple Effect Film Series: Addicted to Plastic
Summary: Within Addicted to Plastic, filmmaker Ian Connacher conducts and international odyssey revealing the disturbing long-term effects of the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. From water bottles and Styrofoam cups to toothbrushes and garbage bags, in less than a century the pervasive presence of plastics has marked every ecosystem and all aspects of human activity. Visually compelling, entertaining and thought provoking, Addicted to Plastic is both a wake up call and an inspiring consideration of possible recycling or down-cycling solutions.
Location: Room 109 at KRC
Fall '12 priority registration opens for pending degree-seeking students
Summary: Fall '12 priority registration opens for pending degree-seeking students
Location: KPC
Fall '12 early, walk-in registration for admitted students
Summary: Fall '12 early, walk-in registration for admitted students
Location: KPC
Fall '12 early, walk-in registration for admitted students
Summary: Fall '12 priority registration opens for pending degree-seeking students
Location: KPC
Last day credit-to-audit change
Last day for student initiated withdraw
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Deadline for KPC summer 2012 admission application
End of the year meeting/clean up/BBQ
Grades entered by faculty via UA Online
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
First day of summer classes
KPC closed: Memorial Day holiday
KPC closed: Memorial Day holiday
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
KPC closed: Memorial Day holiday
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Last day of summer classes (first five-week session)
$125 late payment fee assessed for summer courses
First day of summer classes (second five-week session)
Deadline for UAA/KPC summer 2012 graduation application
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
KPC closed: summer recess
No classes held (summer recess)
KPC closed: summer recess
No classes held (summer recess)
No classes held (summer recess)
No classes held (summer recess)
No classes held (summer recess)
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
$175 late payment fee assessed for summer courses
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Last day of summer classes
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Grades entered by faculty via UA Online
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC
Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Summary: Fall '12 registration (online) open to public
Location: KPC