Friday, July 12, 2024
On July 12th, the first CEA class funded through WIP (AGRI-4990) has delivered their final research presentations and officially graduated as the first "Innovators" for our program. For the last day of class, we received the visit of the WIP Executive Director from the Governor's Office, Lauren Schoenfeld, and the WIP Team for University of Wyoming: the VP of Research, Dr. Parag Chitnis; Director of Strategic Partnerships, Curtis Biggs; Aaron Barber, Project Coordinator, AVP for Economic Development. Left to right in the picture below are Isaiah Spiegelberg, Teaching Assistant for the class; Mike Baldwin, Lab Coordinator; Lina Guadagno, Class Coordinator; Duong Nguyen, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Students: Christin Kere, Ivin Tardoni, Christiana Rumainum, Nicole Klosterman, Jack Mckinley, Nile Young, James Villasenor, Kyle Scholtens, Romy Agrawal.
June 2024
After several months of brainstorming, it looks like we came up with our Facility emblem. Stay tuned for some swag 🙂
May 2024
During the last few months, we have developed the main mission for our Facility: a convergence of cutting edge research, teaching activities, and workforce development. This month, our mission is part of the newly drawn postcards by Emily Edgar (Associate Director of Creative Services in Institutional Marketing). We hope that all visitors will take a postcard home to learn more about our Facility and activities!
Pictured below is the front side of the postcard.
Monday and Tuesday, April 22nd and 23rd, 2024
Our personnel participated to the Plenty/UW CEA conference at UW. Our student technicians, Isaiah Spiegelberg and Jade Whiting, had the opportunity to share their successful stories in CEA through the WIP program. Isaiah and Jade have been supported by WIP for taking the online CEA course "AdvanCEA" and they have participated to the CEA Short Course at University of Arizona in March 2024. Currently, they are working with a paid internship with Papa Joe's Produce in Sheridan, Wyoming, supported by the Department of Workforce Development.
April 4th, 2024
We are really excited to share that our Facility has been awarded with the Virtual Reality Phase II Grant ($127,500). In collaboration with Chocolate Milk & Donuts (CMD), a company from Texas, the WIP Program, and the UW 3D Visualization Center, we will be developing a new virtual reality program (The Plant Lab) that will take students and researchers around the state and beyond to our spaces! We plan to work also towards environmental simulations to learn more about how greenhouse spaces can be affected by climatic differences to inform future development for smart greenhouses research.
March 2024
The PGPF has now signed up as a member of the NCERA-101. This will allow UW facility to share station reports on a yearly basis and be connected with the global community of controlled environment facilities.
Friday, February 2nd, 2024
Along with recently publishing our website, the Plant Growth and Phenotyping Facility was featured in the Winter 2024 volume of the UWYO Magazine! Click on the image below to open the link to the whole magazine.
