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Year: 2026

Jennifer Bell.

UW Works with Wyoming DEQ-AML, UR Energy on Soil Reclamation Project Using Coal Char

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.
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Maya Kate Gilmore September 16, 2026

UW Researchers Use Graph Theory to Study Autism in Mice

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.
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uweagnews September 11, 2026
Model wearing an illuminated jellyfish-inspired outfit walks the runway as audience members applaud at UW’s 2023 Kaleidoscope Fashion Show.

Student Organizations Offer Education, Community, and Professional Development Opportunities

From Range Club to Fashion Club, the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources nurtures a wide variety of student organizations. These organizations focus on many kinds of activities, from recreation to community service to academics. Student organizations allow students to make lifelong connections with others who have similar interests and to explore new hobbies or possible careers. They are run by students with guidance from faculty advisers.
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Maya Kate Gilmore September 4, 2026
Bison, including calves, cross a river.

New Yellowstone Film Reveals Recovery of Bison Migrations

A new wildlife documentary gives an unprecedented view into how Yellowstone bison recovered from near-extinction and relearned to migrate. “What Bison See: Restoring Yellowstone’s Lost Migrations” features exclusive footage from the first high-definition camera collars deployed on bison in the national park.
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uweagnews August 28, 2026
Several lambs walk through a chute near students who are collecting data.

Wyoming Wool Initiative Launches Fifth Annual Lamb-a-Year Program

The Wyoming Wool Initiative, in partnership with the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources, is now accepting applications for its 2026-2027 Lamb-a-Year program. This flagship program offers UW students valuable industry experience and provides regional sheep producers with individualized lamb quality data.
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uweagnews August 27, 2026
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Managing Diabetes with Infrared Light: UW Student Develops New Molecular Tool

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.
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Maya Kate Gilmore September 21, 2026
Ellen Currano, Regan Dunn, and Kymbre Skersies examine fossils on a rocky hillside.

UW’s Currano Helps Reconstruct Ancient Wyoming Forest Canopy

For more than a decade, University of Wyoming botany Professor Ellen Currano has been collecting fossilized remnants of trees and plants that thrived about 56 million years ago in what is now Wyoming. Now, Currano’s findings are part of a new scientific paper that reconstructs the forest canopy of 56 million years ago, during a massive and abrupt emission of carbon into the atmosphere during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).
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uweagnews August 17, 2026
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Rare Broad-Winged Hawk Released at UW After Discovery on Campus in June

At the edge of the University of Wyoming’s Prexy’s Pasture Thursday, July 30, people gathered around a rare sight in Wyoming for this time of year—a broad-winged hawk. The uncommon bird of prey was found on campus in June with a fractured beak and a significant parasite load. A month later, the young hawk, healed and ready to resume its journey, flew from UW’s lawn to the trees between the S.H. Knight Geology Building and the Engineering Building before heading southeast.
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uweagnews August 6, 2026
A woman in a blue jacket stands in front of the stone ruins and steep green mountains of Machu Picchu, Peru.

UW Alum Teaches and Researches Global Biodiversity, Inspiring Curiosity and Conservation

Nina Zitani has discovered and named 15 insect species previously unknown to science. Fellow entomologists have named another nine newly discovered species in her honor. A renowned scientist and educator, Zitani has led or co-led more than 30 expeditions to remote areas of Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru. She’s collected and scrutinized thousands of entomological research specimens, led field courses in the Amazon rainforest, and served as a biodiversity expert for 18 Smithsonian Journeys, including an “Around the World by Private Jet” program.
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Brooke Ortel August 6, 2026