man wearing University of Wyoming track uniform competes in shotput at an outdoor track meet

Record-Breaking Athlete Excels as a Graduate Researcher in UW’s Range Program

The University of Wyoming’s Division I athletics program is known for nurturing top-tier student-athletes. But most of them aren’t also performing graduate-level research.

When he’s not breaking national records at track and field meets, graduate student Daniel Reynolds studies wildlife movement in Wyoming landscapes. In other words, this unconventional and high-achieving student has two intense full-time jobs.

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UW Adds Conviron Walk-In Chamber to Plant Growth Facility

A new walk-in growth chamber at the University of Wyoming’s Plant Growth and Phenotyping Facility will allow UW researchers to advance photobiology, a rapidly growing subfield in plant science that explores how light quality influences plant growth, development, and resource-use efficiency.

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Bob Model with Dean Kelly Crane.

Gift Establishes UW Professor of Wildlife Conservation

A $1 million gift from Wyoming rancher and conservationist Bob Model to the University of Wyoming—doubled to $2 million with state matching—establishes the Boone and Crockett Club Professor of Working Lands Wildlife Conservation, which will address some of wildlife conservation’s most pressing challenges.

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