SER in the news 2026
March
The Laramie Boomerang covered a meeting of Cyrus Western, administrator for Region 8 of the Environmental Protection Agency, with UW students.
February
UW’s School of Energy Resources is one of the proposed recipients of funding from the Wyoming Energy Matching Fund Program, according to WyoFile. The project aims to help petroleum producer Continental Resources study strategies to tap the Mowry Shale formation in the Powder River Basin.
Mugglehead Investment Magazine published a story about UW and American Rare Earths having secured a U.S. research award to study commercial uses for mining byproducts at its Halleck Creek rare earths project. University officials said the projects aim to support both workforce training and Wyoming-based resource development.
Cowboy State Daily also published an article about the possibility of Wamsutter becoming a national hydrogen hub through transforming oil and gas field waste streams into hydrogen for markets in the Pacific Northwest. Kyle Summerfield, UW School of Energy Resources (SER) research program manager, and Charles Nye, a senior research scientist with UW’s Hydrogen Research Center, were quoted in the story discussing a pilot plant built south of Cheyenne that SER is developing with Williams Companies. The story was also shared by Fuel Cells Works, and Hydrogen Central.
Wyoming News Now published UW’s release about a new undergraduate certificate in subsurface energy. The certificate is a strategic collaboration between UW’s School of Energy Resources and the Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering within the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. The Way Ahead also covered the story.
The UW School of Energy Resources’ coal-to-products field demonstration plant at the Wyoming Innovation Center near Gillette was the subject of a Sheridan Media article. The project aims to create new and diversified markets for Wyoming coal.
January
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) covered the Critical Mineral Leadership Academy that was hosted and arranged by the UW School of Energy Resources in August of 2025. The CMLA was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.
A joint press release with American Rare Earths was shared through Business Insider, Stock Titan, Yahoo!Finance, Junior Mining Network, Mining.com, Mining.com.au, Tipranks, and Geomechanics discussing the collaborative project between its subsidiary Wyoming Rare Ltd. and the School of Energy Resources to investigate tailings and byproducts from the Halleck Creek rare earths project. The project is funded as a STAR Project award under UW's NSF-funded ART program.
UW environmental engineering Professor Jonathan Brant is quoted in an Inside Climate News article about a planned data center near Cheyenne, described as potentially the largest data center in the country. Brant says even closed-loop cooling systems like that planned for the facility will see water losses.
The coal-to-products field demonstration plant, under construction by UW’s School of Energy Resources near Gillette, was the topic of a Cowboy State Daily article. The facility will be capable of processing 8-10 tons of coal per day, producing intermediate materials that can be manufactured into asphalt products, building materials, agricultural soil amendments and nuclear-grade graphite.
