UW in the News

State, national and international media frequently feature the University of Wyoming and members of its community in stories. Here is a summary of some of the recent coverage:

Laramie, home of the main UW campus, came in 21st overall in WalletHub’s “Best College Towns in America” and ranked sixth among small college cities. The personal finance website compared more than 400 U.S. cities of varying sizes based on 31 key indicators of academic, social and economic opportunities for students. The data set ranges from the cost of living and the crime rate to the quality of higher education in the city. Read UW’s release here.

The Gillette News Record reported that UW will offer a new ranch management and agricultural leadership degree program next fall. Students will complete classes across departments, including courses in animal science, rangeland management and ag business.

Cowboy State Daily featured a UW-led project -- a new model home near Lander that is so energy efficient and self-sufficient that it costs nothing to power -- making it a model of what a modern net-zero house can be. UW faculty member Tony Denzer and adjunct faculty adviser John Gardzelewski, who led the award-winning project with UW students, were interviewed for the article.

Abdalrahim Abuwarda, from Gaza, who is attending UW as part of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and working on his master’s degree in international studies, was featured in a Laramie Boomerang article that was republished in The Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Abuwarda discussed his family’s plight living in war-torn Gaza.

Buckrail reported that Wyoming will receive $12.2 million in federal grants to support law enforcement and crime services. UW programs will receive nearly $874,000 of the state’s total to help track domestic-related homicides and to research and evaluate policing practices. Funding comes from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Program.

Mairin Sims, a UW freshman from Laramie, is the recipient of the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement for a Girl Scout. The Laramie Boomerang reported that, for her Gold Award project, Sims assisted Laramie’s Downtown Clinic in creating a dashboard to compile data and run reports for its board of directors.

Cowboy State Daily included comments from Max Gilbraith, coordinator for UW’s Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium, in an article on the discovery of enormous sunspots that have developed on the sun. Additional sunspots mean more chances for solar flares, which could lead to possible aurora borealis events in the near future.

Steve Paisley, an associate professor in the UW Department of Animal Science, provided comments for a Cowboy State Daily article titled “Wyoming Experts Say UN’s Anti-Meat Push For Climate Change Doesn’t Add Up.”

News 4, in San Antonio, produced a segment on Susan Pamerleau, who received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from UW in 1968. She is a former U.S. Air Force major general; a U.S. Automobile Association vice president; a Bexar County, Texas, sheriff; and, now, the U.S. marshal for the Western District of Texas.

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle published UW’s release announcing that Corrine Knapp, an associate professor of environment and society in UW’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, provided the Northern Great Plains chapter information that appears in the Fifth National Climate Assessment.

As part of a multistate team, UW Extension’s Cent$ible Nutrition Program recently earned national recognition for its efforts to connect people facing food insecurity with local produce, according to a university release published by Sheridan Media.

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle published UW’s release noting that the university’s American Heritage Center is launching an exhibition that explores the history of mystery books. The exhibition opens this week and runs through April 5.

Sheridan’s Caleb Hoopes won the People’s Choice Award for his presentation during the Wyoming-WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) Medical Education Program’s fifth annual research symposium. The Sheridan Press published UW’s release on the recent research symposium.

Sheridan Media published UW’s release announcing that the UW Art Museum has again achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national recognition afforded by the nation’s museums.