Your gift to UAF research supports students and faculty across a wide range of fields, from Arctic science and engineering to space, geophysics and large animal studies. Contributions fund field stations, early-career researchers, student awards, library resources and cutting-edge programs that expand knowledge and solve real-world challenges. Together, we’re advancing discovery and innovation that benefit Alaska and the world.
Register as a UAF Research Champion
UAF Research needs volunteer Champions to tell their community why donating is important this UA Giving Day. Scroll down to view UAF Research priorities you can advocate for and Challenge awards your community can help unlock. Registration is open now.
Advocate for these priorities this UA Giving Day:
- Large Animal Research Support Endowment: Support research, education and outreach for Alaska animals, such as muskoxen and reindeer.
- Toolik Field Station Early Career Research Support: Support early career researchers by granting them access to Toolik Field Station, the world's largest Arctic research facility, and funding future leaders in Arctic science through the Toolik Tundra Award, which enables them to conduct independent research projects at the station.
- Alaska Space Grant Program Support: Connect Alaska students and faculty to NASA and the growing aerospace industry in the state.
- Alaska Center for UAS Integration (ACUASI): Maintain a world-class research center for unmanned aircraft systems, providing integration of unique payloads and supporting pathfinder missions within government and science communities, with a special emphasis on the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
- Geophysical Institute Graduate Student Research Award: Support UAF graduate students conducting research at the Geophysical Institute (GI).
- Paul H. McCarthy Student Research Award: Support undergraduate and graduate students doing research in the Alaska and Polar Regions and Collections and Archives (APRCA) in the Rasmuson Library.
- Rasmuson Library Support: Provide flexible funding to support programs and facilities for one of the world's finest collections of Alaska and Polar Regions materials, encompassing books, periodicals, photography, manuscripts, films, oral histories, rare books and maps.
- ACEP Research Support: Support research conducted by the Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP) at UAF, covering expenditures such as salaries, travel, equipment, contractual services and commodities.
- UAMN Planetarium Excellence
