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 College of Business Dean Scott Beaulier and Assistant Professor Matt Burgess published
an op-ed in the Deseret News suggesting that the path to equity in education is putting excellence first. They
argue that putting equity first has failed to deliver either equity or excellence,
while putting excellence first has delivered both.
Mugglehead Investment Magazine published a story about UW and American Rare Earths having secured a U.S. research
award to study commercial uses for mining byproducts at its Halleck Creek rare earths
project. University officials said the projects aim to support both workforce training
and Wyoming-based resource development.
In a Cowboy State Daily article about concerns the Federal Reserve instructed bank examiners to pressure banks
into closing accounts for customers based on their political views, banking law expert
Julie Hill, dean of UW’s College of Law, says government should not pressure banks
to close accounts for lawful people and businesses for political reasons.
Cowboy State Daily also published an article about the possibility of Wamsutter becoming a national
hydrogen hub through transforming oil and gas field waste streams into hydrogen for
markets in the Pacific Northwest. Kyle Summerfield, UW School of Energy Resources
(SER) research program manager, and Charles Nye, a senior research scientist with
UW’s Hydrogen Research Center, were quoted in the story discussing a pilot plant built
south of Cheyenne that SER is developing with Williams Companies.
Wyoming News Now published UW’s release about a new undergraduate certificate in subsurface energy.
The certificate is a strategic collaboration between UW’s School of Energy Resources
and the Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering within the College of Engineering
and Physical Sciences.
Wyoming News Now also published a story about teacher nominations being taken for the UW Mentor Corps.
The deadline for nominations is Tuesday, Feb. 10.
A new forest monitoring site in the Tetons -- co-founded by a UW team led by UW faculty
members Tucker Furniss and Sara Germain -- was featured by Buckrail. Over the last two summers, Furniss, Germain and a team of 18 students and technicians
mapped and documented nearly 35,000 trees in the various plots.
Buckrail also picked up UW’s release on the upcoming Science Café in Jackson Hole Feb. 1.
Four UW graduate students will present their research for the public at the Teton
County Library. The Jackson Hole News and Guide wrote an abbreviated version of UW’s story.
The UW School of Energy Resources’ coal-to-products field demonstration plant at the
Wyoming Innovation Center near Gillette was the subject of a Sheridan Media article. The project aims to create new and diversified markets for Wyoming coal.
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle picked up UW’s release on the university’s 2029 cohort of Tomé Scholars, and specifically mentioned Naomi Poelma, of Carpenter and Okinawa, Japan, who is studying environment and natural resources and civil engineering.
