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:
Cowboy State Daily, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle and the Laramie Boomerang are among the media outlets that published UW President Ed Seidel’s op-ed, “Wyoming’s University: A Legacy of Service, a Future of Promise.”
In a Wyoming Public Media article about the move of cryptocurrency company Kraken’s headquarters to Cheyenne, Steve Lupien, director of UW’s Center for Blockchain and Digital Innovation, says the move will benefit Wyomingites by providing good jobs for recent graduates and diversifying the state’s economy.
Dan McCoy, the director of UW’s Jay Kemmerer WORTH Institute, reported the results of a survey to the Jackson Hole Travel and Tourism Board, according to the Jackson Hole News & Guide. The survey found that 36 percent of respondents in Teton County see the benefits of tourism outweighing the drawbacks -- a 10-percentage-point increase from three years ago.
UW graduate student Isaac Owusu, who works in the Center of Innovation for Flow Through Porous Media, was profiled in an article in Ghana News. His findings demonstrate that carbon dioxide injection could boost output from declining Ghanaian oil fields by up to 20 percent, while simultaneously creating permanent carbon storage solutions.
UW Assistant Professor Jennifer Bell’s research on the effects of grazing and controlled burning on tallgrass prairies was highlighted by the High Plains Journal. Bell found that the abundance, diversity and community composition of mycorrhizal fungi were relatively unaffected by fire, but bison impacted community composition and diversity, likely caused by bison-driven changes in the plant community.
Articles in Sheridan Media and County 10 noted the new cohort of educators in the fifth annual Wyoming Teacher-Montor Corps, a project of UW’s Trustees Education Initiative.
County 17, Cap City News and Oil City News published UW’s release about John Koprowski, dean of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, being inducted as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
