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January 18, 2013
Hess Corporation has committed to giving the University of Wyoming $4.4 million to support UW’s Center for Advanced Oil and Gas Technologies Nano Resolution Imaging Laboratory, Governor Matt Mead and UW President Tom Buchanan announced today (Friday).
January
UW Professors Explore Climate Impacts on Bighorn Basin Populations Over the Last 13,000 Years
During the past 13,000 years, Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin has experienced significant increases in population growth -- due primarily to periods of high...
January
Jack Benny Papers Accessible at UW’s American Heritage Center
Papers of Jack Benny, one of the 20th century’s most influential entertainers, are now accessible online at the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage...
January
UW Geological Museum Reopens Jan. 12
After its first makeover in nearly 60 years, the University of Wyoming’s Geological Museum is ready to reopen to the public.
January
UW Student Shines at Miss America Pageant
Miss Wyoming Lexie Madden, a University of Wyoming student from Torrington, was named third runner-up at the Miss America Pageant on Saturday night in Las...
January
Drilling Simulator Will Allow UW to Expand Courses, Provide Industry With Experience
A Drilling Simulator Teaching Lab is expected to expand course offerings in engineering at the University of Wyoming, provide students and industry personnel...
January
Ultra Petroleum’s $2 Million Gift Supports UW Energy Research
A $2 million gift commitment from Ultra Petroleum Corp. will support and enhance the University of Wyoming’s energy research and academic program, the...
January
Hess Pledges $4.4 Million to UW for Energy Research
Hess Corporation has committed to giving the University of Wyoming $4.4 million to support UW’s Center for Advanced Oil and Gas Technologies Nano Resolution...
January
UW Wind Research Study Has Potential to Diversify State’s Economy, Provide Energy to California
New transmission and generation infrastructure, relative to power generated by Wyoming’s vaunted wind, would help diversify the state’s economy with more...
January
Resource Helps UW Faculty and Staff to Obtain Funding from Private Sources
Are you searching for more funding sources for your program or research?
January
UW Professor Helps Discover ‘Holy Grail’ Theory of Evolving Modular Networks
One of the University of Wyoming’s newest professors has tackled a decade-old question regarding the evolutionary origins of modularity and discovered a new...
February
UW-Led Research Shows Slight Decline in Big Game Antler, Horn Size
A team of scientists led by a University of Wyoming researcher recently reported that the size of trophy horns and antlers of most species of North American...
February
UW’s Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center is Awarded for Sustainable Building Features
The University of Wyoming’s Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center, home to Laramie’s only living roof, has been awarded LEED Gold certification for its...
February
ExxonMobil Donates $2.5 Million to UW
A grant from ExxonMobil will support science and technology education programs at the University of Wyoming, including research into technologies that...
February
UW Professor’s Computer Models Designed to Enhance, Optimize Carbon Sequestration
To Ye Zhang, sequestering and storing carbon dioxide in deep subsurface reservoirs offers potential environmental benefits. But she also knows the process is...
February
UW Student Named 2013 New Face of Civil Engineering
University of Wyoming senior Stacia Slowey of Thornton, Colo., has been selected as one of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2013 New Faces of Civil...
February
UW Names New Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
A scholar in cell biology and neuroscience who has served as a dean at two universities has been named dean of the University of Wyoming College of Arts and...
February
Six Outstanding Student Soloists to Vie for Top Prize in Jacoby Competition
Six will perform. Only one will be chosen as the University of Wyoming’s finest student musician during the Dorothy Jacoby Student Soloist Competition...
March
UW Spring Enrollment Shows Increase
Steady enrollment growth is continuing at the University of Wyoming, with 12,873 students enrolled for the spring semester.
March
UW Sets Record for External Research Funding
Faculty members at the University of Wyoming received a record $86 million in external funding in the 2012 fiscal year.
March
Pulitzer Prize-winning Author David McCullough at UW April 16
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author David McCullough will speak Tuesday, April 16, at the University of Wyoming. His talk is free and open...
March
First Lady Carol Mead Hosts Community Forum on Literacy Friday
Wyoming First Lady Carol Mead will host a community literacy forum Friday, March 8, at 11:45 a.m. at the Albany County Library Meeting Room. The meeting is...
March
UW Theatre and Dance Wins at Regional Festival
University of Wyoming Department of Theatre and Dance students and faculty were honored this spring at the Region VII Kennedy Center American College Theatre...
March
UW Professor Helps Scientists Analyze Their Research in 3-D
For as long as she can remember, Amy Banic has been fascinated with human-computer interaction and virtual reality. That fascination has become the basis of...
March
Ara Harutyunyan Wins UW’s Jacoby Soloist Competition
Violin virtuoso Ara Harutyunyan of Yerevan, Armenia, was named the winner of the University of Wyoming’s Dorothy Jacoby Student Soloist Competition March 1,...
March
UW Men’s Nordic Club Team Wins USCSA National Championship
There’s a reason all those 7-mile trail runs in the mountains and 6 a.m. roller skiing treks to the outskirts of Laramie this summer were scheduled for the...
March
UW Graphic Artist is Region’s Best in Show
When Kira Cheshier began to prepare for the annual Art Directors Club Denver Student Exhibition, she was aware that University of Wyoming students had...
April
Charles Dolan Receives Ellbogen Lifetime Teaching Award
For nearly 22 years, Charles Dolan taught the importance of building a solid foundation with structural integrity. And he often did it with cultural flair,...
April
Cultural Program Violinist Ray Chen to Perform at UW
Acclaimed violinist Ray Chen will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9, in the University of Wyoming Fine Arts concert hall.
April
UW's Bruce Culver and Kristy Isaak Receive James C. Hurst Awards
Bruce Culver, director and professor in the School of Pharmacy, and Kristy Isaak, accounting associate, senior, in ASUW, were named the 2012-2013 recipients...
April
UW Graphic Design Student Portfolios on Display
University of Wyoming students will showcase upper-level junior and senior graphic design portfolios from 6-8 p.m. Friday, May 3, in the Visual Arts Building...
April
Riverton Student Named Top Graduating Woman at UW
Amanda King, who will graduate in May with an international studies degree with specialization in the Middle East and Africa, is the recipient of the...
April
Evanston Student wins $30k Entrepreneurship Competition at UW
With three semesters remaining before he graduates from the University of Wyoming, Shawheen Amirkhizi, an accounting junior from Evanston, already runs his...
April
Marlatt Receives UW Libraries Outstanding Staff Award
University of Wyoming Libraries has presented its Outstanding Staff Award to Nancy Cyrus Marlatt, marketing and public relations coordinator. The award...
April
University of Wyoming Police Department Offers Anonymous Text Tip Program
The University of Wyoming offers an anonymous text tip program that will help create a safer community. Tip411 is an Internet-based tool that enables the...
April
Five UW Students Receive Northern Arapaho Scholarships
Five University of Wyoming students are the recipients of Northern Arapaho Endowment Scholarships for the coming summer session and the 2013-2014 academic year.
April
UW Assistant Professor of Horticulture Receives Young Scientist Award
Research and commitment to teaching have earned an assistant professor of horticulture in the University of Wyoming Department of Plant Sciences the 2013...
April
UW Cowboys Take EWC Rodeo Team Title
Led by its strong contingent of ropers, the University of Wyoming men’s rodeo team placed first at last weekend’s Lancer Rodeo at Eastern Wyoming College...
April
UW Researchers’ Lithium Discovery Could Boost CO2 Storage Prospects
Researchers at the University of Wyoming Carbon Management Institute (CMI) discovered a vast new lithium resource near Rock Springs during a geological...
April
Employees Honored at Staff Recognition Day
Paula Weems, office assistant, senior with the UW Admissions Office, today (Thursday) was named the University of Wyoming's outstanding employee of the year...
April
Parkinson's Disease Subject of UW Lecture Thursday
A leading Parkinson’s disease researcher will discuss his work Thursday, April 4, at 7 p.m. in Room 129 of the University of Wyoming Classroom Building.
May
Brett Deacon Receives UW Student Alumni Association Faculty Award
A committee of University of Wyoming Student Alumni Association members has selected Brett Deacon, Department of Psychology associate professor, as this...
May
UW College of Engineering and Applied Science Honors Top Professionals
The University of Wyoming College of Engineering and Applied Science recently recognized faculty and staff for outstanding service and accomplishments.
May
Forest Service and UW Ruckelshaus Institute Offer Open Houses on Forest Recovery
Open houses in Laramie, Saratoga and Steamboat Springs, Colo., will highlight ecological dynamics as local forests respond and move beyond the bark beetle...
May
Four UW Students Receive Storer Awards, Earn Opportunity to Teach Science Education
Four University of Wyoming students will gain experience teaching science -- to elementary school students in the outdoors -- in Saratoga this summer.
May
UW Breaks Ground on Buchanan Center for Performing Arts
Citing retiring President Tom Buchanan’s dedication to the arts in Wyoming, the University of Wyoming today (Friday) broke ground to begin construction on...
May
Liu named Wyoming Excellence Chair in Climate Science at UW
An internationally recognized scientist in climate modeling, aerosol-cloud reactions and aerosol modeling is the newest endowed chair at the University of...
May
UW Hosts Astronomy Experience for Six Undergraduate Students from Across the Nation
Beginning this week, six undergraduate students from across America have gathered for 10 weeks to delve into studying astronomy at the University of Wyoming....
May
UW’s Whitman named ASEE Fellow
David Whitman, a University of Wyoming professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recently named an American Society for Engineering Education...
May
Former U.S. Ambassador Marc Wall is UW Visiting Senior Scholar in Global Studies
Marc Wall, the U.S. Pacific Command’s foreign policy adviser and a former United States ambassador to Chad, is the new Senior Visiting Scholar in Global...
May
Company’s Spin-Out Agreement with UW Targets Algal Biomass Industry
PlanktOMICS Algae Bioservices recently finalized a spin-out agreement with the University of Wyoming in a deal that will allow the company to further its...
May
Twenty-Four UW Students to Receive EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Two dozen University of Wyoming undergraduate students will have great opportunities to become involved in scientific research this summer.
May
Global and Area Studies Director Garrison Wins UW President’s Stewardship Award
The University of Wyoming awarded this year’s President’s Faculty Stewardship Award to Jean Garrison, director of the Global and Area Studies program and...
May
Longtime Faculty Member Becomes UW Outreach School Dean
A longtime University of Wyoming faculty member, who has served in various leadership capacities and has a record of service around the state, has been named...
May
UW College of Arts and Sciences Names 2013 Outstanding Graduates
The University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences has selected its outstanding graduating students for the 2012-13 academic year.
May
McCarthy Earns UW’s Milstead Distinguished Librarian Award
Deborah McCarthy, head of Technical Services at University Libraries, is the recipient of the University of Wyoming’s 2013 Milstead Distinguished...
June
Diane Boyle Fills UW’s Excellence Chair in Nursing
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.
June
Ecological Society of America Honors UW Professor Bill Reiners
In recognition of his groundbreaking accomplishments in a career spanning five decades, the world’s largest professional organization of ecologists has...
June
Firehole Technologies’ Success to be Topic of Discussion at e2e Casper Meeting
A Laramie-based business that grew from an idea at the University of Wyoming into a thriving company that was eventually acquired by a Fortune 350 software...
June
Jackson State University Group Learns About Wyoming’s Hydrology, Geology
For Carlos Martinez, the University of Wyoming is worlds away from his home in Bogota, Colombia. But for the Jackson State University (JSU) junior, the...
June
Jo Chytka Directs UW’s Johnson Career Center
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.
June
Laramie Mural Project Fundraiser to Add New Murals Downtown
The Laramie Mural Project fundraising campaign is under way online at Kickstarter, with a goal of adding seven new murals to downtown Laramie by the end of...
June
NPR's StoryCorps Coming to Wyoming
Wyoming residents will have the opportunity to record, share and preserve their stories when the StoryCorps' MobileBooth stops in Wyoming this summer.
June
Retiring UW President Donates Books to Meeteetse Library
During his 35-year career at the University of Wyoming, retiring President Tom Buchanan has accumulated a large and wide-ranging personal collection of books.
June
Seven New Exhibitions Open at UW Art Museum
A free public reception to open the University of Wyoming Art Museum summer exhibitions will take place Friday, June 7, from 6-8 p.m.
June
Students Explore Science Concepts at UW Energy Summer Institute
How much weight can a cockroach pull, and how much strength does it take to pull a marshmallow apart?
June
Two UW Professors Share in Award for Outstanding Rotorcraft Research
Two University of Wyoming faculty members are part of the HELIOS software development team that won the 2013 Schroers Award for Outstanding Rotorcraft...
June
UW Professor Co-Writes Paper on Discovery of Possible Planet Formed Around Distant Star
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...
June
UW's Kaycee Nelson Second in CNFR Breakaway Roping
Kaycee Nelson couldn’t bear to watch. She had her back to the arena after briefly taking the national breakaway roping lead, and needed two other competitors...
June
UW Professor Excavates Significant Fifth Century Mosaic in Galilee
University of Wyoming Religious Studies Professor Paul Flesher was part of the excavation team which unearthed a pair of stunning mosaics decorating the...
June
UW Students Receive UniWyo Study Abroad Scholarships
Three University of Wyoming students have been awarded UniWyo Federal Credit Union Study Abroad Scholarships to study overseas.
September
UW Celebrates the Rochelle Gateway Center in Topping-Off Ceremony
The University of Wyoming celebrated the Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center in a topping-off ceremony Thursday (Sept. 12). The ceremony marks a high point in...
September
UW’s Nationally Recognized Nordic Ski Team Invited to World University Games
For the second time in two years, the University of Wyoming’s nationally recognized men’s and women’s Nordic ski club teams have been invited to compete in...
September
UW Awarded $1.5 Million for Maternal Obesity Research
In an effort to help reduce a nationwide maternal obesity epidemic, the National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $1.5 million grant to...
September
UW Joins City in Laramie Community Service Day
Helping hands are being sought for the annual Laramie Community Service Day on Saturday, Sept. 28.
September
UW Launches Professional Land Management Program
The University of Wyoming will launch its new nationally accredited Professional Land Management program with a celebration Monday, Sept. 23, from 1-5 p.m....
September
Football Game, Parade, Highlight UW Homecoming Schedule
“This is the West … Forever Brown and Gold" is the theme of the 2013 University of Wyoming Homecoming, Oct. 5-12.
September
Author and Poet Sherman Alexie to Visit UW
Award-winning author and poet Sherman Alexie will lecture and sign books Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in the University of Wyoming College of Arts and...
September
Maggie Farrell is Candidate for ALA Presidency
Maggie Farrell, University of Wyoming libraries dean, is one of two candidates for the 2015-16 presidency of the American Library Association (ALA).