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Georgene Hager LeBar loved children. Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to have any of her own, so she focused on helping others, including using her estate to support students at the University of Wyoming and others around the state.
“At the heart of her was an incredible desire to help people and to give,” says Erin Hager, Georgene’s niece. “We have just wanted to carry that on through everything that we’ve done.”
April 9, 2014 — The life-sized copper statue of Tyrannosaurus rex that guards the front of the University of Wyoming’s Geological Museum will mark the 50th anniversary of its dedication Friday, April 11.
April 7, 2014 — Linda Kidwell, associate professor in the University of Wyoming College of Business Department of Accounting, has received a Fulbright Scholarship to study and teach next spring semester in Romania’s Bucharest University of Economic Studies.
April 7, 2014 — A University of Wyoming professor who is an international leader in the study of the flow of fluid in porous media has been appointed to a prestigious endowed professorship at UW.
April 4, 2014 — The Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center, a one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art welcoming center for the University of Wyoming, will incorporate many distinctive features, including light fixtures that are handcrafted by the Buffalo-based metalsmith company Frontier Ironworks.
April 3, 2014 — A University of Wyoming facility vision that began as a focal point for literacy education research is now open as an outreach hub designed to initiate and support programs across the state -- and to host collaborative research with scholars around the nation and the world.
February 14, 2014 — Steamboat, the iconic horse that defines and embodies the untamable spirit of the state and the University of Wyoming, will forever be on display at UW’s Marian H. Rochelle Gateway Center.
February 13, 2014 — It has been 20 years since the University of Wyoming’s then-College of Agriculture rolled out a new interdisciplinary undergraduate major in agroecology.
February 12, 2014 — University of Wyoming undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in democracy and want to conduct independent research projects are encouraged to apply for the Malcolm Wallop Fund Student Stipend Award.
February 6, 2014 — A University of Wyoming assistant professor has generated quite a bit of buzz with his discovery that some alpine bumblebees can fly to heights greater than Mount Everest.
January 28, 2014 — When the University of Wyoming opened its first outreach program in Casper in the summer of 1976, Renee Woodward remembers setting up makeshift offices in an empty classroom at Casper College’s old Administration Building.
