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The University of Wyoming Foundation is an independent nonprofit corporation dedicated to securing, managing, and stewarding private gifts in support of the University of Wyoming's missions in teaching, research, and public service. Because UW is the state's premier four-year institution of higher education, private support from alumni and friends has never been more important.

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Email: foundation@uwyo.edu

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Chad Deaton – CEO, Mentor, and Visionary

Growing up in the tiny northern Wyoming town of Byron, Chad Deaton always knew he wanted to work in the oil patch.

His father and both his grandfathers worked in or invested in the oil industry. In fact, his father’s father worked on the first oil well drilled in the Big Horn Basin. Chad’s youngest daughter, too, earned a degree in chemical engineering and worked for Chevron, tallying four generations of Deatons who have worked in the oil industry.

“I just had a lot of oily blood, I guess,” he says.

Deaton’s journey into the oil industry can be traced to the day his father took him to see Dowell, a division of Dow Chemical, use remote operations to frac a well. A junior in high school, Deaton was fascinated and decided, then and there, that he wanted to go into engineering or geology. He later attended the University of Wyoming, though petroleum geology was not offered at the time. He chose general geology for a major.

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Animal Science Society Honors UW's Scott Lake

June 17, 2013 — The American Society of Animal Science will present its Western Section Young Extension Award to Scott Lake, assistant professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Animal Science.

Laramie Students Claim National History Day Championship, Jackson Students Third

June 17, 2013 — Laramie home schoolers Hazel Homer-Wambean and Jackson Higgins claimed first place in the recent National History Day competition June 9-13 in College Park, Md.

Two UW Professors Share in Award for Outstanding Rotorcraft Research

June 13, 2013 — Two University of Wyoming faculty members are part of the HELIOS software development team that won the 2013 Schroers Award for Outstanding Rotorcraft Research from the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Helicopter Society (AHS).

UW Professor Co-Writes Paper on Discovery of Possible Planet Formed Around Distant Star

June 13, 2013 — A University of Wyoming professor co-wrote a paper that purports a planet may be nestled in a gap in the disk around the star known as TW Hydrae, which is located 176 light years away.

UW Student Selected as Tillman Scholar

June 7, 2013 — University of Wyoming College of Law student Cash Freeman has been selected as a Tillman Military Scholar for the 2013-14 academic year. The one-year scholarship is worth $13,000.

Diane Boyle Fills UW’s Excellence Chair in Nursing

June 4, 2013 — Diane Boyle, a prolific researcher and award-winning teacher, is the first excellence chair at the University of Wyoming’s Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing.

Jo Chytka Directs UW’s Johnson Career Center

June 3, 2013 — Jo Chytka is the new director of the Peter M. and Paula Green Johnson Business Career Center at the University of Wyoming College of Business.

UW Professor Co-author of Study Explaining Education Gap in Mortality Among U.S. White Women

May 31, 2013 — Less-educated white women were more likely to die than better-educated females from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, according to a new study co-written by a University of Wyoming professor.

UW Hosts Astronomy Experience for Six Undergraduate Students from Across the Nation

May 30, 2013 — Beginning this week, six undergraduate students from across America have gathered for 10 weeks to delve into studying astronomy at the University of Wyoming. And there’s no easing in. Students were scheduled to gaze at stars through a telescope on their first night.

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The Gift of Reading

Thea Stidum knows first-hand the importance of literacy. She taught first grade for many years in the Sacramento school district before moving up.

UW's Path to Tier 1

Transforming the UW College of Engineering and Applied Science into one of the nation's top echelon engineering schools.

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