For families with young children, meals can be a battlefield. But what if it didn’t have to be a fight?
Grace Shearrer, assistant professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, is investigating common toddler eating behaviors, parental feeding approaches, and ways to dismantle mealtime tug-of-wars.

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.

Antimicrobial resistance, in which harmful microbes become resistant to treatments like antibiotics, is a growing problem around the world. But little is known about how this constantly evolving public health threat is impacting Wyoming livestock, pets, and wildlife.