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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