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 federal government’s newly announced Genesis Mission validates investments UW
has been making for years, says Jeff Hamerlinck, the associate director and a senior
research scientist in the School of Computing, in a Cowboy State Daily article. The Genesis Mission aims to double American research and development productivity
within a decade by building an integrated platform connecting supercomputers, artificial
intelligence systems and quantum technologies with the accumulated scientific data
of the federal government.
UW’s leadership role in Wyoming’s fight against cheatgrass is highlighted in a WyoFile feature. Scientists, rangeland managers and state and county officials -- led by
UW’s Institute for Managing Annual Grasses Invading Natural Ecosystems -- are doing
everything in their power to prevent Wyoming from becoming another landscape lost
to cheatgrass.
Cowboy State Daily featured UW undergraduate student Drea Hineman, of Gillette, who has developed a
system that will allow fresh lettuce to be grown and harvested in space. Hineman is
a research fellow with the Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium. Sheridan Media also picked up UW’s release on Hineman’s accomplishments.
In a WyoFile article, research by UW economist Stephen Newbold was cited by a major supporter
of a new $100 surcharge on foreign visitors at select national parks announced by
the Department of the Interior last week. Newbold’s study calculated the relative
changes in visits and revenues over a wide range of entrance fees using averaged travel
costs, revealing that a surcharge would need to be increased beyond $200 per visitor
before revenues would decline.
Patrick Hardigan, the dean of UW’s College of Health Sciences, and Sherrill Smith,
the dean of UW’s Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, are quoted in a Cowboy State Daily article about a federal proposal that would remove nurse practitioners from the list
of degrees considered “professional.”
The Laramie Boomerang covered the inaugural UW Trustees Education Initiative Showcase Nov. 19. The showcase
featured presentations from past and current students from across the state whose
backgrounds reflect the broad reach and importance of career and technical education.
A book review by Jake Hochard, UW’s Knobloch Associate Professor of Conservation Economics,
was published in the journal Nature. The book, “On Natural Capital,” by Partha Dasgupta recaps economic advances of the
past 75 years while pointing out the environmental costs of that progress. Hochard
says the book “distinguishes itself as a pleasant, accessible and informative read,
compared with many academic modern works at the intersection of economics and the
environment.”
Jim Johnson, an assistant instructional professor in UW’s Department of Anthropology,
is quoted in a Smithsonian article about the discovery of evidence of a Bronze Age city in Kazakhstan. He questions
whether Semiyarka was a major urban settlement.
Oil City News picked up UW’s release about Konstantinos Mamis, an assistant professor in UW’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics, being part of a team that won the prestigious 13th Integrated Mathematical Oncology Workshop at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla.
