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:

Two UW mechanical engineering graduate students, Autumn Highland and Austen Williamson, are leaders of a multi-university team that is tackling the challenge of washing clothes in space without using water, soap or gravity, according to KOAA News. The student team received a $10,000 grant from NASA for the project.

UW’s School of Energy Resources was one of the co-hosts of the inaugural Japan-Wyoming Energy Summit earlier this month in Gillette, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reports. The three-part event included a tour of the Wyoming Integrated Test Center, a business meeting and dinner with Japanese officials, local elected leaders and Wyoming energy sector professionals.

Sheridan Media reported on UW’s new Stewart Family Professorship in Public Service, funded by the Stewart family in honor of their late parents, Clyde and Jerrine Stewart, of Sheridan. Jean Garrison, a professor of international studies and political science and director of the Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program at UW, has been named the first Stewart Family Professor in Public Service.

UW’s Family Medicine Residency Program in Cheyenne is starting a residency track focused on obstetrics, Wyoming Public Media and WyoFile reported in covering a meeting of the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Labor, Health and Social Services Committee. Declining access to maternal health care was an area of focus for the committee.

A team from UW is among researchers studying a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park last summer, according to an article in Eos. They’re working to discover how and why it occurred to better understand such hazardous events.

Cap City News and County 17 published UW’s release noting that a study led by Ben Kern, an associate professor in the Division of Kinesiology and Health, was cited in the White House’s Make America Healthy Again report. The report underscores the critical role of physical education in student health and highlights the ongoing national shortfall in meeting recommended physical education minutes for students.

Matt Burgess, a UW assistant professor of economics, was quoted in an Inside Higher Ed article regarding the recent Heterodox Academy conference in New York.

The Sheridan Press and Sheridan Media reported on the upcoming educational field day at UW’s Sheridan Research and Extension Center.

The Sheridan Press also reported on two new online graduate certificates offered by UW’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources.