REDD in the News

Research News Highlighted Outside UW

• Development of a new, more accurate flu test by UW Professor Debashis Dutta and doctoral student Amit Acharzo was highlighted by the Casper Star-Tribune. Their approach combines 3D-printed dissolvable nasal swabs with a proprietary testing platform designed to improve how quickly and accurately flu infections can be identified.
• WyoFile featured female researchers who made significant wildlife discoveries in recent years while studying at UW. They include Rhiannon Jakopak, Brittany Wagler, Tayler LaSharr and Anna Ortega.
• The Jackson Hole News & Guide highlighted the research of UW graduate student Lena Wigger, who is studying how beaver ponds of different ages influence the spread of chytridiomycosis, a fungal disease, in boreal toads of the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
• Wyoming Public Radio publicized upcoming Bat Walks conducted by UW’s Biodiversity Institute around the state. This summer, the Biodiversity Institute has been hosting the guided walks in Pinedale, Cody, Lander, Sheridan, Casper and Laramie.
• Another Utah media outlet -- KUER -- highlighted the work of UW’s King Air research aircraft in that state this summer. It’s being used by a team studying the formation of ozone in the atmosphere above the Salt Lake Valley through the end of August.
• Wyoming Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio and KUNR were among the outlets reporting on a research team from Wyoming, Nevada and Idaho that is trying to make it easier to get information about critical minerals in the region. Quoted in the article are Alathea Davies, a research scientist in UW’s School of Computing, and Tyler Brown, minerals program manager in the School of Energy Resources.
• The Bozeman Daily Chronicle was among the outlets that published UW’s release about a sweeping new study on the history of North American bison. Specimens from UW’s collections played a key role in the study.
• UW Professor Ellen Currano was one of the authors of a paper in the journal Science that reconstructs the forest canopy of 56 million years ago in what is now Wyoming, during a massive and abrupt emission of carbon into the atmosphere during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). The research was highlighted by media outlets including Science Magazine and Environment Journal. For the first time, the authors of the study used fossilized leaf cells to reconstruct the tree canopy of the PETM, Earth’s most recent period of abrupt climate change.
• Charmaine Delmatier, a research associate with UW’s Rocky Mountain Herbarium, was part of a group that summited an unnamed peak in the remote, northern part of the Tetons Aug. 1. To celebrate, the group held up the U.S., Wyoming and University of Wyoming flags at the top, according to the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
• In a Cowboy State Daily article about an elk calf being freed after becoming entangled in a fence, UW Professor Kevin Monteith says wildlife-friendly fencing has been a boon for game herds across Wyoming and the West.
• Buckrail joined the list of news outlets highlighting UW’s role in a sweeping new study on the history of North American bison.