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 ...
Professor Walter Echo-Hawk to speak about human rights at the University of Wyoming
Posted On Friday, October 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under OKLAHOMA Tags: College of Law Building, Rights of Indigenous Peoples, University of Wyoming, Walter Echo-Hawk
Walter Echo-Hawk, an attorney, tribal judge, author, activist and law professor, will discuss “Human Rights in Native America” Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 6 p.m. in room 178 of the University of Wyoming College of Law Building.
Echo-Hawk’s talk, part of Law Week at the UW College of Law Oct. 21-25, begins ...
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 ...
Ole Miss Panel Recommends Education, Not Punishment of Athletes
Posted On Monday, October 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GUAM Tags: Athletics Director Ross Bjork, Laramie Project, Matthew Shepard, University of Mississippi, University of Wyoming
Reinforcing a sentiment expressed Thursday to USA TODAY Sports by a cast member of the Ole Miss production of The Laramie Project, the university's Bias Incident Response Team has recommended education, not punishment, for the athletes and attendees who disrupted the play Tuesday night.
University of Mississippi officials apologized Thursday for ...
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 ...
UA System Announces New Chief Human Resources Officer
Posted On Friday, September 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ALASKA Tags: Michelle Rizk, State University of New York, University of Alaska, University of Wyoming
University of Alaska President Pat Gamble has hired longtime human resources professional and adjunct professor Erik Seastedt from the State University of New York (SUNY) to serve as the UA System’s chief human resources officer.
Seastedt will start the job Sept. 16, replacing interim officer Michelle Rizk, who also serves as ...
UNL Officials Urge Football Fans to Protect Against Extreme Heat Saturday
Posted On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEBRASKA Tags: Cornhusker football, HEART DISEASE, Huskers, Memorial Stadium, University of Nebraska, University of Wyoming
Lincoln, Neb., - With temperatures expected to be in the upper 90s with a heat index of more than 100 on Saturday, University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials are encouraging fans planning to attend that day's Cornhusker football game to be aware of the dangers of extreme heat and to take steps ...
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 ...
