Syun-Ichi Akasofu
![Akasofu (left), with then-U.S. [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Ted Stevens]] (center), [[Katey Walter]] (second from right), [[Larry Hinzman]] (back left), [[Tohru Saito]] (back right) in 2008](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Ted_Stevens_at_International_Arctic_Research_Center.jpg)
is the founding director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), serving in that position from the center's establishment in 1998 until January 2007. Previously he had been director of the university's Geophysical Institute from 1986.
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