UW in the News

State, national and international media frequently feature the University of Wyoming and members of its community in stories. Here is a summary of some of the recent coverage:

The UW Board of Trustees' appointment of Brigadier General Shane Reeves as UW's 29th president was covered by Cowboy State Daily, the Laramie Boomerang, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, WyoFile, Wyoming Public Media, the Casper Star-Tribune, County 17, Wyo 4 News, Sweetwater Now, Laramie Live, SVI News, Oil City News, County 10, the Northern Wyoming News and the Newcastle News Letter Journal, among other Wyoming outlets.

The UW-led "Data x Power" Summit in Jackson last week received attention from realtor.com and KHOL Radio. The closed-door gathering brought together about 50 senior leaders from hyperscale technology companies, energy developers, government officials and academia.

Data centers aren't necessarily water-intensive, says Jake Hochard, a conservation economics professor in UW's Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and one of the "Data x Power" Summit's organizers. He's quoted in a Cowboy State Daily article that looks at why there's growing opposition to data centers across rural America.

The award-winning research of UW undergraduate Drea Hineman was featured by Cowboy State Daily. Hineman, of Gillette, is studying the buildup of salts in closed-loop systems for farming in space.

The conflict in the Middle East could soon make many everyday items more expensive, as disruptions in oil and natural gas markets drive up the cost of producing plastics, says Professor Charles Mason, UW's H.A. "Dave" True Jr. Chair in Oil and Gas Economics. He's quoted in an Arizona's Family article.

A proposal for the state of Wyoming to buy a Campbell County family's condemned coal rights and use them as leverage in a federal mineral exchange could unlock up to 250 million tons of coal stranded in state school trust land. But in a Cowboy State Daily article, Matt Fry, director of the Center for Energy Regulation and Policy Analysis in UW's School of Energy Resources, says the specifics of the proposal raise questions that would need to be worked through -- including the state's ability to sell the resource.

L&H Industrial, based in Gillette, built mission-critical hardware that NASA's Artemis II needed to get safely off the ground last week. In a Cowboy State Daily article, UW economist Rob Godby says the company's work shows that there's no limit to the type of economic development that can take place in Wyoming.

Cowboy State Daily featured Ken Pomeroy, a famous UW alumnus whose athletics data analytics system got its start in the computer lab of UW's Engineering Building.

UW's feature on Bailey Yeager, a student in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, was published by The Sheridan Press. Yeager, from Buffalo, plans to pursue a master's degree and work in rangeland monitoring, environmental surveying or agricultural research to support the rural community where she grew up.

UW's release about UW's Wyoming WWAMI students being matched with their residency training sites was picked up by the Powell Tribune and The Sheridan Press.

The Laramie Boomerang published UW's release about the "Turning the Pages of America" exhibition in the Toppan Rare Books Library of the American Heritage center.

The Wyoming Tribune Eagle picked up UW's release about Michelle Sullivan, of Sheridan, being elected chair of the UW Board of Trustees.

The Powell Tribune published UW's release about UW's Science Café in Cody last weekend. Two UW graduate students presented their research to the public at the event.