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The University of Wyoming Extension invites new and returning Wyoming 4-H members and volunteers to celebrate National 4-H Week Sunday, Oct. 4, through Saturday, Oct. 10. Administered by UW Extension and supported by volunteers across the state, Wyoming 4-H helps youth ages 5-18 build lifelong leadership skills through project-based learning, mentorship, and community engagement.

The former Aquatic Bug Day will emerge from the water and also include a look at terrestrial bug species this year. Wigglers and swimmers will share the stage with creepers, crawlers, and fliers during the renamed UW Bug Day from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Sept. 26, at LaPrele Park in Laramie.

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).

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.

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 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.

A group of Wyoming farmers and ranchers will come together the morning of Sept. 24 doing something few producers ever get to do: communicating to the nation's central bank, in their own words, the challenges the agricultural industry is currently facing.

The University of Wyoming welcomes two new statewide agricultural economics specialists serving UW Extension and the College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources. Assistant professors Angela Jungbluth and Peyton Ellis joined the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics Tuesday, Aug. 25.

Throughout the summer, members of the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources have earned scholarships, grants, and other honors through their exceptional efforts. Read more about UW’s outstanding awardees below.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.