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 Casper Star-Tribune highlighted a $4.12 million grant to UW’s College of Education that will allow 120
Wyoming K-12 educators to earn English as a second language teaching endorsements.
The Wyoming Educators Learning through Credentialing and Outreach for Multilingual
Education, or WELCOME Project, also will allow 40 educators to pursue master’s degrees
in the field.
A $6 million grant to UW from the National Science Foundation to support research
aimed at using microorganisms to process rare earth elements was highlighted by Wyoming Public Media.
Sheridan Media published UW’s release about UW and Idaho National Laboratory researchers being selected
to receive $906,382 in federal funding to develop artificial intelligence-enabled
models aimed at improving heat transport predictions in nuclear fuel.
UW’s Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center was selected by Teton County to conduct an
assessment of immigration enforcement practices by The Teton County Sheriff’s Office,
according to Buckrail and the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
UW undergraduate researcher Will Anderson’s discovery of the rare insect Grylloblattodea, or ice crawlers, in rock glaciers of Yellowstone National Park continues to receive
media coverage. The Cody Enterprise picked up UW's release, and the Jackson Hole News&Guide and Buckrail published their own stories on the subject.
Your Wyoming Link and Oil City News covered a joint concert of UW’s Jazz Combo and Natrona County High School’s Big Band
last week in Casper.
UW’s release about the 30th entering class of the WWAMI Medical Education Program
was picked up by the Sheridan Press.
County 17 published a portion of UW’s release about the recent College of Agriculture, Life
Sciences and Natural Resources Dean’s Legacy Dinner. Two people with ties to Gillette
and Campbell County were honored.
Wyoming News Now published UW’s release about the university’s 12th annual Giving Day.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.