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:

UW President Ed Seidel and John Stark, UW Foundation president and CEO, both commented in a UW media release on the death of former U.S. senator and UW alumnus Alan K. Simpson who died last week. Domestic and international media outlets all reported on the death of Simpson, mentioning his ties to UW.

7220 Sports, WyoToday Media and Oil City News published UW’s release announcing that Seidel is the new chair of the Mountain West Conference Board of Directors, succeeding Keith Whitfield of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, who recently resigned his presidency.

Northern Wyoming News reported that Mike Greear, from Worland; Paul Ulrich, from Pinedale; and Tom Walters, of Casper, were recently appointed to the UW Board of Trustees by Gov. Mark Gordon and approved by the Wyoming Senate.

Davin Bagdonas, a UW research scientist, offered comments in a SciTech Daily piece that focused on the more than $8 billion cache of rare earth elements that has been discovered in the U.S. Bagdonas discussed coal ash as a readily available rare earth elements resource.

Michael Griffith, UW professor of music and director of Orchestral Activities, recently conducted the Kearney Symphony Orchestra in Nebraska. The program was Tieshan Liu’s “Yao People’s Dance,” the “Lt. Kije Suite” by Prokofiev and Beethoven’s First Symphony. He also was a clinician for the University of Nebraska Kearney (UNK) Wind Ensemble, taught a conducting class for UNK and was interviewed by Nebraska Public Radio about the Kearney Symphony Orchestra’s conductor exchange.

The Powell Tribune reported on the Bureau of Land Management’s new partnership with UW and the Intermountain West Joint Venture that address the threat of cheatgrass in northwest Wyoming. The collaborative effort tackles cheatgrass infestations on both public and private land in the Big Horn Basin.

Mitchell Oler, a UW accounting and finance associate professor, offered valuable insight on how to budget finances in a WalletHub piece titled “What is a Budget?”

Cowboy State Daily interviewed UW’s Max Gilbraith, the Harry S. Vaughn Planetarium coordinator, for an article focusing on how Saturn’s rings will disappear in the night skies this week, and will then completely disappear later in a few years.

The Laramie Boomerang published UW’s release announcing that violinist Michael Vitanza, a UW student from Pinedale, was recently named the Jacoby Competition winner, which featured seven UW student soloists. The Boomerang published another UW release that featured UW’s Biodiversity Institute’s vulture watching/data gathering program across Wyoming.

UW’s annual High Altitude Bull Test and Sale, that offers performance tests on bulls for cow-calf producers across the region, will be this week at UW Extension’s Laramie Research and Extension Center at the Cliff and Martha Hansen Teaching Arena. Northern Ag Network published the notice.