University of Alaska Fairbanks - Notable Faculty and Alumni

Notable Faculty and Alumni

  • Tom Albanese, CEO Rio Tinto
  • Mark Myers, former director of US Geological Survey
  • Syun-Ichi Akasofu, geophysicist and founding director of the International Arctic Research Center
  • Bob Bartlett (1925), territorial delegate and first Alaska senator
  • F. Stuart Chapin III, professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the university's Institute of Arctic Biology and President of the Ecological Society of America (2010–2011)
  • Sydney Chapman, professor of geophysics and advisory director of the university's Geophysical Institute
  • T. Neil Davis (BS 1955, PhD 1961), geophysicist and author
  • Curtis Fraser (2004), hockey player
  • Otto W. Geist, explorer and naturalist
  • Ronald Graham (1958), mathematician
  • Jay S. Hammond (1949), former Governor of Alaska
  • Virgil L. Sharpton (2005-2010) Vice Chancellor for Research and planetary scientist
  • Jordan Hendry (2006), hockey player
  • Chad Johnson (2009), hockey player
  • Judith Kleinfeld, professor of Psychology
  • Margaret Murie, naturalist and author
  • J. Jill Robinson, (MFA 1990), award-winning Canadian writer of fiction and creative nonfiction
  • Yuri Shur, world renowned permafrost expert

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