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:

The Boston Globe added comments from UW Associate Professor Evan Johnson for an article that focused on November Project, a free fitness movement that began in Boston in 2011. Chapters exist in 53 locations around the world. Johnson has studied November Project’s impact on people’s workout habits.

A story in The Washington Post about international students from war zones features UW graduate student Abdalrahim Abuwarda, a Fulbright Scholar from Gaza. This summer, after eight months of war had ravaged Gaza, Abuwarda’s wife and three children joined him in Wyoming.

WyoFile reported that Wyoming’s two largest coal producers, Peabody Energy and Arch Resources, separately moved to shift their focus away from the state’s thermal coal to the metallurgic type that is used in steelmaking and mined elsewhere. The online news service interviewed UW economist Rob Godby on what the companies’ moves could mean for the state.

UW’s ability to use artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to solve problems in areas including the environment, energy, agriculture and public health will take a major step forward through a nearly $4 million grant to acquire state-of-the-art computing infrastructure from the National Science Foundation. Chad Baldwin, UW’s associate vice president for marketing and communications, spoke with Sheridan Media about the award. The Casper Star-Tribune also picked up UW’s media release.

UW’s School of Energy Resources will receive nearly $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue studying carbon capture and storage, according to an article on Wyoming Public Media. The Wyoming Technical Assistance Collaboration for Carbon Management project looks at what to do with carbon emissions that have been captured.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center profiled UW graduate Aaron Vigil, a mechanical engineer at Goddard. Vigil, from Worland, works on the Solar Array Sun Shield for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. In summer 2021, while a UW student, Vigil worked as a remote intern at Goddard.

Oil City News featured UW swimmer Jack O’Neil, of Colorado Springs, Colo., who competed in the Paris Paralympics. The News Letter Journal and Colorado Public Radio also carried preview stories.