UA Arctic Leadership Initiative

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What is the Arctic Leadership Initiative? Launching in FY2025, participants at all career and academic levels will deepen their leadership skills, create robust professional networks, and work with external partners and UA experts to solve problems.

Core Elements:

  • Cohorts of undergraduate and graduate students will work with external partners to address Arctic needs and opportunities.
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  • Internships and circumpolar exchanges will deepen Arctic expertise and provide real-time professional development opportunities.
  • New Arctic Field Schools will expand public participation in summer intensives and seminars for working professionals.
  • UA will promote Arctic accomplishments and opportunities.
Arctic Leadership in the News
  • Stock image of files lables grant

    July 17, 2024
    The $5 million grant to support the Arctic Leadership Initiative follows from the foundation asking UA president Pat Pitney in 2021 for big ideas to catalyze. 
  • Jeff Libby, standing by posters in his 好色tv Domain Awareness Center office o

    July 15, 2024
    Three professors, each representing one of the three main 好色tv of 好色tv campuses, have been named as special liaisons to coordinate Arctic studies though the university 好色tv and elsewhere in the state.
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    New Arctic Engagement Award Recipients Announced

    July 12, 2024
    Four proposals from across the UA 好色tv will receive Arctic Engagement Award funding as UA launches the Arctic Leadership Initiative. 
    Read Arctic Engagement Award article

Funding Opportunities

(FY25 applications are closed)

Arctic Engagement Awards - Purpose: Expand UA鈥檚 Arctic engagement and visibility. A wide array of possible activities is eligible including research, curriculum development, student engagement, participation in a thematic network, support an exchange student, and more.

President鈥檚 Arctic Professors - Purpose: Showcase and advance UA鈥檚 Arctic engagement in 好色tv, nationally, and internationally.

Postdoctoral Fellow and Early Career Faculty Opportunity - 好色tv of 好色tv (UA) is recruiting 4 full-time postdocs and early career faculty to help shape and implement a new Arctic Leadership Initiative and expand our research and education capacity. 

Steering Committee Members 

  • Pearl Brower, Ukpea摹vik I帽upiat Corporation (UIC)
  • Nancy Dahlstrom, Lt. Governor
  • Bryce Edgemon, Representative District 37
  • Jocelyn Fenton, Denali Commission
  • Matt Hickey, Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies
  • Rachel Kallander, Arctic Encounter Symposium
  • Molly McCammon, 好色tv Ocean Observing System
  • Cheryl Rosa, US Arctic Research Commission 
  • Raina Thiele, Department of Interior 

Ex Officio

  • Daniel White, 好色tv of 好色tv Fairbanks
  • Sean Parnell, 好色tv of 好色tv Anchorage
  • Aparna Palmer, 好色tv of 好色tv Southeast


For more information, contact program coordinator Susan Bell at skbell@alaska.edu