Associate Director of Teaching & Learning, eCampus

Adjunct Faculty, UAF Art Department

Madara Mason has been teaching since 1999, and engaged in faculty development at UAF since 2011, supporting innovative teaching practices and broad campus collaboration. Along with the Accelerator, she leads the eCampus Instructional Design Team in managing initiatives such as CITE Fellows, the UAF edX Consortium partnership, AI-assisted assessment, and many other innovations in teaching and technology.

Program Director, Applied Management Program

Instructor, UAF School of Management

Amanda White teaches professional development and management classes in the School of Management and is the Program Director for the Applied Management program. She has pursued a path helping people make active, authentic, career choices and brings energy, innovation, and care to the classroom. Amanda is an active member of Faculty Senate and numerous strategic campus initiatives.

Associate Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts

Director of University Writing, General Education

Sarah Stanley is a beaver believer! How do beavers engineer healthy ecosystems and increase wetlands? How can we collaborate and create more ecological approaches to learning at UAF?   She is experimental and bold in working with others to increase access to quality higher education. She facilitates Writing 111X alongside beginning university-level writing teachers every semester, in prison and google classrooms.

Research Associate Professor
Associate Director of Research – ACUASI
Deputy Director – OIPC, CASR

Peter Webley studies remote sensing of natural hazards, dispersion modeling of aerosols, satellite detection methodologies, the application of unmanned aircraft systems for geoscience research and operational support, scenario planning for natural hazard assessment and risk mitigation, 3-D visualization of aerosol modeling, business development, technology transfer, and entrepreneurship.

Associate Research Professor of Science Education, GI

Chair of Science Teaching and Outreach Graduate Certificate Program

Laura Conner oversees a number of externally funded projects and initiatives around STEM and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) learning. Her research broadly addresses how people come to identify with science, as well as the value of real objects and experiences in learning. Conner teaches graduate level courses in science teaching and outreach and is active in University- level service.      

Director, UAF Graduate School

Professor, GI Atmospheric Science

Rich Collins joined the Geophysical Institute in 1994 and has served UAF since then. Collins is a professor in atmospheric sciences and has served in several administrative roles at UAF. He is interested in developing student and faculty mentoring programs, and securing significant external funding for graduate student support and research.