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UW Program Bringing Real-World Science to Classroom Starts Second Year November 26, 2024
The University of Wyoming’s Teacher-Researcher Knowledge Exchange (TRKE) program kicked off its second year of connecting science educators and scientific researchers with a five-day institute in Pinedale this fall.
November 25, 2024
Bryan Shuman will discuss “Increasing Wildfire and Declining Snow: Learning from the Past about the Future of Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains” at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the Wyoming Union Family Room.
October 30, 2024
University of Wyoming Extension has released a new publication that describes a problem with market-based conservation programs where companies pay landowners to meet certain conservation goals.
October 25, 2024
A delegation from UW, including WyACT Co-PI Bart Geerts, traveled to Tunisia to sign four separate memoranda of understanding with the Universities of Tunis, Sfax and Jendouba, and the National Institute of Agronomic Studies of Tunisia and the National Institute of Agricultural Research of Tunisia.
September 24, 2024
The University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute (BI) has merged within UW’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, effective July 1
September 20, 2024
The University of Wyoming is a consortium member of the latest 5-year cooperative agreement between the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Colorado Boulder to host the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC). UW contact: Corrie Knapp
What gets anglers hooked on fishing in the Snake River headwaters? August 30, 2024
In his thesis, Patrick Hofstedt analyzed “The preferences of anglers under alternative climate scenarios in northwestern Wyoming.”
Sarah Collins Named UW Research Institute Director at AMK Ranch July 30, 2024
Sarah Collins, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Zoology and Physiology, has been appointed as the new Research Institute director of the UW Research Center at the AMK Ranch in Grand Teton National Park.
Rivers of Resilience: UW Grad Student Takes Deep Dive Into Relationship With Rivers and Lakes July 22, 2024
Understanding how Wyomingites think about and relate to water is the topic of Pallavi Pokharel’s master’s thesis. For this, she interviewed 43 farmers/ranchers and recreationists in the Snake River and Green River basins. Her research is one component of UW’s WyACT: Wyoming Anticipating Climate Transitions project, a five-year program funded by the National Science Foundation.
July 17, 2024
Jeff Hamerlinck, University of Wyoming School of Computing associate director and senior research scientist, has become president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS).
