Robinson Duffy
Reporter/Multimedia
Call Robinson at 907-459-7523.
Robinson Duffy has worked for the News-Miner since 2005. He writes mostly about education and creates interactive content for the Web site. He graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in film. During his time at UAF, he wrote for the Sun Star, the student-run newspaper, and ultimately served as the paper’s managing editor. He is an award-winning film critic.
Robinson grew up in Orem, Utah, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City, where he was heavily involved in community theater, developing a special love for Shakespeare, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, the smell of grease paint and the roar of the crowd.
In 1999, Robinson camped out at a Utah movie theater for two and a half weeks to get tickets for the first showing of “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace.” He has a large collection of vintage “Star Wars” toys and is a champion at “Star Wars” Trivial Pursuit.
Robinson married Bobbi Sampson in 2002, and the couple are expecting their first child in April.
Recent Stories
- UAF gets $1.2 million to record Native languages
- Some are on the verge of extinction
- Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008
- A researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded $1.2 million by the National Science Foundation to document the endangered languages of Alaska and other areas of the Arctic.
“If it’s ever going to be done, it has got to be done now,” said Michael Krauss, professor emeritus of linguistics at UAF. “Making a record, as much as we can, of a language while it is still there is vital to the future of the language and the people.” - Strung along
- Students learn fun Native storytelling method
- Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008
- David Titus’ fingers crissed and crossed, twisting and twining a long loop of string. In a mere matter of seconds, Titus transformed the simple string into the complex figure of a porcupine, complete with a big bushy tail, climbing up the side of a tree. Through slight manipulations of his hands, the figure came to life and the string porcupine slowly moved up the trunk of the tree.
- Youth in Brief - Feb. 23
- Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008
- Fairbanks History fair winners released; Holocaust essay competition announced
- Rising costs put a crunch on Fairbanks child care
- Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008
- Play N Learn West, one of the largest day-care centers in Fairbanks, will be closing its doors next month.
- Hospital fundraising campaign has a lot of heart
- Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008
- Within the next few years, Fairbanks could see a new heart center built adjacent to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
The Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation launched a fundraising campaign Monday with the hope of raising $3 million for the new Harry & Sally Porter Heart Center, which will house the latest technology in cardiac care, expand the cardiac services the hospital already offers and bring those services together under one roof. - UAF commissions bobbleheads to spread school spirit
- Monday, Feb. 18, 2008
- The University of Alaska's newest lobbyists in Juneau are real smooth characters. Their confident smiles are permanently etched onto their faces.
- UAF brushes up with new dental hygiene program
- Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008
- The University of Alaska Fairbanks is offering a new degree in dental hygiene.
The two-year associate’s degree was approved earlier this month by the university’s Board of Regents. According to officials at the university, the goal of the new program, which will be offered through the Tanana Valley Campus, is to bolster the local pool of dental hygienists, the licensed dental assistants who specialize in preventative care such as cleanings, scalings and taking X-rays. - Youth in Brief - Feb. 16
- Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008
- Time to apply for National Youth Science camp; Yukon spellers advance to Interior Spelling Bee; North Pole choir students head to music festival
- Fromage comes wisdom
- Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008
- Rose Jeffries gingerly poked at a plate full of feta chunks with a toothpick Tuesday afternoon during a meeting of the local chapter of Future Farmers of America. She skewered one of the brittle chunks and tentatively sniffed at it a few times, the hunk of cheese hanging precariously off the end of the toothpick a few centimeters from her nose.
- Boning up
- Anatomy with an artistic touch
- Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008
- Dani Bolte, a junior at North Pole High School, was staring intently at her latest anatomy assignment Friday morning.
Her assignment stared back.