Student Organizations Offer Education, Community, and Professional Development Opportunities

Originally from Minnesota, UW Extension educator Peyton Loss moved to Wyoming to study water resource economics in the West.
With a background in agricultural business and soil science, she was excited to conduct community-centered water research as a graduate student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

The University of Wyoming will host its 43rd annual Ag Day Barbecue Saturday, Oct. 17, before the UW vs. North Illinois University football game.

The barbecue is scheduled from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. It showcases registered student organizations associated with the College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources (CALSNR).

Those with type 1 diabetes typically rely on artificial insulin delivered via a needle or an insulin pump to manage their condition. These invasive methods can be painful and inexact, as it’s difficult to pinpoint the correct amount of insulin to inject from moment to moment. In addition, insulin can be expensive.

But new research conducted by Oliver Trunschke, a PhD student in the UW Department of Molecular Biology, could lead to treatments for type 1 diabetes that are as easy and painless as flipping a light switch.

Christopher Bastian has been selected as the inaugural Doug and Deniz Stark Ranch Management and Agricultural Leadership Professor at the University of Wyoming.
Bastian joined UW in 1993 and currently serves as a teaching-research professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, where he has more than 30 years of service.

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality Abandoned Mine Lands Division (WDEQ-AML), UR Energy USA, and the University of Wyoming have formed a collaborative five-year research partnership to advance soil health and mine reclamation technologies. The project evaluates innovative soil amendments, including state-produced coal char, to accelerate the restoration of disturbed lands to productive native rangelands across Wyoming.

Just as a city cannot be understood by studying individual buildings without considering the roads connecting them, the brain cannot be fully comprehended by examining individual neurons without studying how they work together as a network.

This is how Rongsong Liu, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Zoology and Physiology, views the work she and other researchers conducted using graph theory to better understand autism spectral disorder (ASD) in mice.