The University of Wyoming Extension welcomes Melissa Cook as Big Horn County’s community vitality and health educator.

Cook is a former K-12 classroom teacher and school district administrator who began her career as an educator in the Alaskan bush. A …

Interested in learning how to build a geodesic dome greenhouse? Join University of Wyoming Extension educator Jeff Edwards for dome-building events at the Boys and Girls Club of Douglas and Wyoming State Fairgrounds July 10–14.

The geodome workshops are free …

A recent University of Wyoming graduate from Green River has been selected for a competitive postdoctoral fellowship with the USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.

Judith Herreid, who recently completed her Ph.D. in plant sciences, will head to Sidney, Montana, …

Efforts to improve sage-grouse habitat through conventional management practices may be ineffective—and even counterproductive—according to research by Wyoming scientists.

Sagebrush reduction strategies, including mowing and herbicide application, are often employed to enhance habitat for the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus…

For those interested in learning about artificial insemination (AI) in sheep and goats, the University of Wyoming Extension will offer educational programming in Campbell and Fremont Counties in July, followed by breeding days in August.

Classroom sessions will take place …

The University of Wyoming’s Sheridan Research and Extension Center will host a forage-themed field day Wednesday, June 21, at the Wyarno Farm.

The event, which is free and open to the public, will focus on dryland hay and forage crops …

Most educators don’t employ the performing arts to teach biochemistry.

But Pamela Langer, an associate professor in the UW Department of Molecular Biology, has always taken a unique approach to teaching and learning.

Langer is the 2023 recipient of …

Thanks to a new federal grant and a generous private donation, the University of Wyoming’s Rocky Mountain Herbarium will be able to update and expand its current facilities as well as support a graduate student in the botany department.…

A member of the University of Wyoming Extension’s Cent$ible Nutrition Program (CNP) has been elected to a national professional association for nutrition education administrators.

CNP Manager Kali McCrackin Goodenough began her term on the seven-member leadership team of the Association …

The University of Wyoming Extension has partnered with the City of Rawlins to offer free Arbor Day events Friday and Saturday, June 2-3. Activities include a geodesic dome build at the Rawlins Urban Orchard and presentations on tree care, landscape …

The University of Wyoming and Central Wyoming College recently received a $1.3 million USDA grant as part of a five-year regional initiative to strengthen local food systems.

The project, titled the Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Center, aims …

At an annual awards banquet earlier this month, the Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station (WAES) honored faculty and staff for exemplary performance and research accomplishments.

WAES is the research arm of the UW College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources. …

The University of Wyoming Extension welcomes Tiera Bevilacqua as the new 4-H educator for Sublette County.

Prior to joining UW Extension last month, Bevilacqua taught family and consumer sciences at De Pere High School in De Pere, Wisconsin. She served …