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University of Alaska

P.O. Box 757500
Fairbanks, AK 99775

The University of Alaska is a land-grant university founded in 1917 in Fairbanks in the State of Alaska. However, its largest campus by number of students is now in the much-more populous Anchorage area.

The University of Alaska System consists of three main universities, each with several satellite campuses in smaller communities. Nearly 33,000 students are enrolled at three campuses and their branches. These are:

• University of Alaska Fairbanks, the first university
• University of Alaska Anchorage, the largest university, and
• University of Alaska Southeast, its third component, located in the capital city of Juneau.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is home to the noted Geophysical Institute, which operates the Poker Flat Research Rangepresently the only collegiate rocket test range in the U.S. (The California Institute of Technology and other colleges formerly had them. See Jet Propulsion Laboratory-History.)^{[citation needed]} Also, there is the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, the location of the only Cray supercomputer in the Arctic region, and the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences which has facilities and research projects all over Alaska and the Arctic Ocean.

Since the population of Alaska is small, the University of Alaska System is a relatively small one. However, it does have several notable academic departments. At UAF, these are the geology department, the atmospheric sciences department, and the wildlifebiology department. Reflecting the state’s small population, the amount of Federal land granted to the University of Alaska under theMorrill Act was the second-smallest grant in the country.