Researchers Study Beetle-Killed Trees as a Sustainable Biofuel
Posted On Friday, November 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: beetle-killed trees, Bioenergy Alliance Network, multistate research consortium, Rocky Mountains, University of Wyoming
Millions of acres of beetle-killed trees in the Rocky Mountains could possibly be developed into an innovative industry that uses existing technology to convert biomass into high-grade gasoline, according to University of Wyoming members of a multistate research consortium known as the Bioenergy Alliance Network of the Rockies (BANR). It ...
UW Receives Consultant Report on Football, Men’s Basketball
Posted On Thursday, November 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Athletics Director Tom Burman, championship-caliber football, men’s basketball teams, University of Wyoming, Wyoming athletics program
The University of Wyoming has many of the pieces in place to produce championship-caliber football and men’s basketball teams, but some changes are needed to reach and persist at that level, a consulting firm has concluded.
Collegiate Sports Associates (CSA) has completed its review of UW’s football and men’s basketball programs. ...
UW Professors Develop Electrical and Computer Engineering High Performance Cluster
Posted On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Advanced Research Computing Center, department of electrical and computer engineering, ECE-HPC essentially, Muknahallipatna, University of Wyoming
Four University of Wyoming professors have developed an Electrical and Computer Engineering High Performance Cluster (ECE-HPC) -- on which they have created computing applications ranging from directing rescue robots through burning buildings to allowing physical therapists to monitor their patients’ recovery in real time and from remote locations.
The ECE-HPC essentially ...
President’s Perspective: Enhancing the Way We Admit Students to UW
Posted On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: analytical skills, creativity, grade-point averages, resilience, teamwork, University of Wyoming, Wisdom
An alumnus of the University of Wyoming recently asked me whether the university is lowering its standards for undergraduate admissions. Here is what I told him.
No, we are not lowering our standards for admission to UW. We intend to become the No. 1 land-grant institution in the country, and we ...
Science Posse Uses Cockroaches to Help UW Students Become Excited About Teaching Science
Posted On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Department of Zoology and Physiology, elementary school level, Life Science Seminar for Elementary Education, Marry Marino, University of Wyoming
Madagascar hissing cockroaches may seem more suitable to be seen at the zoo than handled in the classroom. But, for the University of Wyoming’s Science Posse, the creepy crawlers are actually used to inspire future educators to embrace teaching science at the elementary school level.
Thirty UW undergraduate students in Pete ...
UW Geoscience Students in Demand at Rocky Mountain Rendezvous Job Fair
Posted On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: geologists, Growing up in Houston, Karen Aydinian, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming
Growing up in Houston, Texas, Karen Aydinian remembers her father, a petroleum geologist, working with few female geoscientists in what was then a predominantly male business. Today, about one-half of such geologists in the industry are women, she says.
Aydinian, a University of Wyoming master’s student in geology, is likely to ...
UW Faculty Pay Raises Will Save Money for Wyoming
Posted On Monday, September 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, University of Wyoming, Wyoming’s economy
A lack of state funding for employee pay raises over the past four years has resulted in a steady increase in the number of University of Wyoming faculty members leaving for other institutions. Those departures represent an immeasurable loss of expertise, harming the university’s ability to fulfill its land-grant mission ...
UW Joins Regional Health Research Partnership
Posted On Saturday, September 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: National Institutes of Health, Research Infrastructure Network, University of Nevada, University of Wyoming, UW’s College of Health Sciences
The University of Wyoming is partnering with 12 other universities across seven states in the Mountain West to put clinical research into practice to address regional health concerns including access to care, cancer, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular and infectious diseases.
A five-year, $20.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health ...
UW Scientist and Olympian to Appear in ‘NBC Learn’ Segment for Sochi Winter Olympics
Posted On Saturday, September 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Athletes Advisory Council, EPSCoR, Geology Building, Nordic skiing, Sochi Winter Olympics
At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Sarah Konrad, framed against the backdrop of a large glacier, enthusiastically discussed the looming ice formation with a television reporter. However, the talk about the subject of her doctoral dissertation never made the airwaves.
However, the Olympian, who competed in Nordic skiing and the biathlon at ...
UW Teams with Aarhus University to Map Aquifers in Laramie and Snowy Ranges
Posted On Saturday, September 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Aarhus University, electrical conductivity, Environmental Hydrology and Geophysics, SkyTEM technology, UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics
September 5, 2013 — For the past year, University of Wyoming water researchers, with boots on the ground, have used more than $1 million worth of new geophysics and hydrology equipment to map groundwater aquifers in the Laramie and Snowy ranges.
Soon, they also will be able to tackle their research ...
Obamacare and Changing Health Care Market Topic of University of Wyoming Conference
Posted On Friday, August 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Healthcare Market, Steven Brill, Teaching Standards Board, University of Wyoming
August 27, 2013 — Experts led by groundbreaking author and Time magazine writer Steven Brill will examine sweeping social, legal and economic consequences of the Affordable Care Act during a Consumer Issues Conference Oct. 2-4 at the University of Wyoming. The conference also examines the state of innovation and legal ...
UW Assistant Professor Connects with Teton County Latina Students
Posted On Friday, August 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: College-Bound Latinas, Latina high school students, Teton County Library, University of Wyoming
When 10 Latina high school students from Teton County visited Aurora Chang’s “Diversity and the Politics of Schooling” class last fall at the University of Wyoming, no one could have predicted that what was expected to be a one-time interaction would lead to an ongoing relationship with one goal in ...
UW Enhanced Oil Recovery Research Lab Targets Stranded Reserves
Posted On Thursday, August 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: David Mohrbacher, Energy Innovation Center, Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute, Oil Recovery Research Lab, University of Wyoming
Tens of billions of barrels of oil remain stranded in aging fields in Wyoming’s Big Horn, Wind River and Powder River basins, according to David Mohrbacher, director of the University of Wyoming’s Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI). A portion of this stranded oil, between 1 billion and 3 billion barrels, ...
President Sternberg: UW Can Become Nations No. 1 Land-grant Institution
Posted On Thursday, August 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Elitist universities, President Sternberg, University of California, University of Wyoming
When I tell people that the University of Wyoming can be the No. 1 land-grant institution in the country, some of them look at me as though I am out of my mind. How, after all, can we compete with institutions like the University of California at Berkeley, Michigan State ...
UW Professor’s Publications Ranked Among World’s Best in Marine Ecosystem Services
Posted On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Ecological Monographs, Ecological Society of America, Edward Barbier, marine ecosystem services, University of Wyoming
Having articles published by some of the world’s leading scientific journals has become almost expected of University of Wyoming Professor Edward Barbier. But even he was taken aback by the results of an international survey that ranked three of his articles among the top five publications in marine ecosystem services.
To ...
UW Salaries Lag Further Behind Peer Universities
Posted On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Chronicle of Higher Education, University of Wyoming, UW Board of Trustees, UW President Bob Sternberg
After four years of no state funding for employee pay raises, the University of Wyoming is losing faculty members at an accelerating rate and falling further behind average pay levels at public research universities.
That seriously harms UW’s efforts to become a top-tier land-grant institution, university leaders told the UW Board ...
UW’s Oakey to Use NSF CAREER Award to Research Regeneration of Structural Tissues
Posted On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: chemical and petroleum engineering, Division of Chemical, Environmental, John Oakey, University of Wyoming
John Oakey wants to make tissue engineering and regenerative medicine more effective and widespread for applications such as rebuilding damaged knee cartilage. The University of Wyoming researcher will soon receive a large funding source that will assist him.
Oakey, a UW assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, was the recent ...
Journal Selects UW Economist for Best Research Paper Award
Posted On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WYOMING Tags: Department of Economics, Finance professor, John Tschirhart, Resource Economics, University of Wyoming
John Tschirhart, University of Wyoming Department of Economics and Finance professor, received the “best paper of the year” award from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE).
The award recognizes exemplary research published during 2012 in the Environmental and Resource Economics (ERE) journal. Tschirhart’s research paper is “Biology as ...
