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Research News Highlighted Outside UW

• 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.
• Wyoming News Now published UW’s release about the university’s 12th annual Giving Day.
• 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.
• 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.
  
• 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.
• The Sheridan Press and the Casper Star-Tribune also picked up UW’s release about the receipt of a federal grant by UW’s Department of Graduate Medical Education to establish a new Family Medicine Rural Training Program in Buffalo. The award will support planning, development and accreditation activities to launch Wyoming’s second rural residency training track, creating new opportunities for physicians to complete residency training in rural communities and helping address healthcare workforce shortages across the state.
• The Sheridan Press published UW’s release about new research showing that mice that exercised lowered their risk for Alzheimer’s disease. The finding could prove promising in helping humans lower their risk of the disease that causes progressive cognitive decline
• UW’s Near-Surface Geophysics Instrument Center conducted a geophysical survey that identified more than 6 million pounds of uranium in the Duck Creek Uranium Project, which covers 4,160 acres in Converse County, according to the Casper Star-Tribune.
• WyoFile highlighted UW undergraduate researcher Will Anderson’s discovery of the rare insect Grylloblattodea, or ice crawlers, in rock glaciers of Yellowstone National Park.
• UW’s release about a nearly $1 million grant to UW’s Yu-Tsung “Rem” Tsai to create two-dimensional materials for quantum computing and sensing was picked up by the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
• The arrival of the “super” El Niño, marked by unusually warm surface water in the central and eastern reaches of the tropical Pacific Ocean, could wreak ecological havoc worldwide, according to scientists quoted in the journal Science. One of those mobilizing to save threatened species or track ecosystems’ responses to record heat is UW Professor Corey Tarwater, who is deploying insect traps and acoustic recorders that can capture the sounds of birds and bats in the Panamanian jungle in anticipation of extremely dry conditions there.
• The Laramie Boomerang highlighted the work of UW squirrel researchers. October is Squirrel Month.
• UW Emeritus Professor Craig Benkman has published a new book about the Cassia crossbill, a distinct species of bird found only in south-central Idaho. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle highlighted the new publication.
  
• Cowboy State Daily also featured UW adjunct professor Anton Wroblewski, who has studied more than 6,500 fossil fragments from the 66-million-year-old Ferris Formation in Carbon County to figure out what killed the dinosaurs.
• UW economist Rob Godby is quoted in a Wyoming Public Radio piece about Wyoming ranking third in the nation for the carbon intensity of its electricity generation. Among other observations, Godby notes that the Cowboy State is “the center of coal country.”
  
• The Cody Enterprise and the Laramie Boomerang published UW’s release about the Jay Kemmerer WORTH Institute’s new Wyoming Rural Pathways Initiative, which seeks to move rural Wyoming students into careers in outdoor recreation, tourism and hospitality. The program is funded by a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
• The Laramie Boomerang published UW’s release about UW faculty member Kayla Clark representing Wyoming in “Women to Watch 2027: A Book Arts Revolution,” an international exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
• The Jackson Hole News & Guide highlighted research on Snake River cutthroat trout being conducted by Jeff Baldock, an aquatic ecologist who got his doctorate at UW. His dissertation included several studies on Snake River cutthroat trout, including tracing the genetics of adult fish in the main stem back to their home tributaries.
• The News&Guide and People Magazine also featured UW graduate student Jared Friedman, who discovered a 1,289-year-old whitebark pine tree in Grand Teton National Park. It’s the oldest whitebark pine ever recorded.
• UW’s Survey and Analysis Center compiled data for the Wyoming Community Foundation’s new 2026 Wyoming Counts Kids Data Book, according to a Wyoming Tribune Eagle article.
• The hundreds of thousands of wild ungulates dwelling across Wyoming’s 62 million acres are worth nearly $6 billion, according to UW Associate Professor Jake Hochard. He’s scheduled to present his research to the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission today in Evanston, WyoFile reported.