The Vic Fischer Undergraduate Research Award provides $2500 to an exemplary UAA undergraduate in the social sciences or other applicable fields interested in researching public policy issues in Alaska or the Arctic in Spring 2025.
The student awardee will participate in ongoing research projects and contribute analyses to publications under the guidance of researchers at ISER.
APPLICATIONS DUE APRIL 1, 2024
The Vic Fischer Undergraduate Research Award provides $2500 to an exemplary UAA undergraduate in the social sciences or other applicable fields interested in researching public policy issues in Alaska or the Arctic in Fall 2024.
As Vic Fischer’s friends and family share memories of Vic’s amazing contributions to Alaska and his impact on us all, we thought we’d share this publication about Vic’s long and impactful career at the University of Alaska, UAA, and ISER in particular. ISER is what it is today because of Vic!
ISER is saddened to announce the passing of our first director and Director Emeritus, Vic Fischer. We are beyond grateful for his years of service to the state of Alaska, UA, and ISER. A memorial service is being planned for November; more information will be available in a few weeks. He was ISER's first director, he studied and had taken part in Alaska government and politics for over 50 years. He was a territorial legislator, a delegate to Alaska's constitutional convention, and later a state senator. In 2006 he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UAA.
Vic Fischer, ISER’s first director, is the latest subject of the Magnetic North film series, which highlights individuals who have shaped Alaska.
Vic Fischer talked about his new autobiography and signed copies October 30 in the UAA Consortium Library, at an event attended by about 200 people. The book, written with Charles Wohlforth, traces Fischer’s life from his early days in Germany and Russia to his decades in Alaska, where he was a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention, a member of both the territorial and state senates, and the first director of ISER. Today he is a director emeritus at ISER and continues to study state and local government policy and Alaska-Russia issues.