Having a traveling salesman traipse around gas well pads in Wyoming paid off for a University of Wyoming Ph.D. student seeking the most accurate and efficient way to monitor reclamation efforts.
Michael Curran coupled the classic traveling salesman problem – …
Two billboards featuring a Native American in full traditional dance regalia is helping send a culture-specific message of the importance of health and physical activity to residents of the Wind River Indian Reservation.
The billboards, one just south of Riverton …
Individuals with adjusted gross incomes of up to $75,000 will receive $1,200 relief checks due to the coronavirus pandemic, but some low-income people or those without internet may need help in getting theirs, said the director of a University of …
University of Wyoming students facing internet difficulties to access online courses can utilize Wi-Fi in parking lots of UW Extension offices across the state.
Parking lot Wi-Fi is being offered in 12 counties and the Wind River Indian Reservation.
Extension …
Picasso probably couldn’t diagnose powdery mildew but plant diagnostic students at the University of Wyoming could probably dissect a Picasso.
That’s because plant pathologist William Stump has directed past students to the UW Art Museum as part of a deep …
A homeless shelter design that addresses shelter safety concerns and noise comfort levels earned a University of Wyoming student a second-place finish in the Pacific West region in the Interior Design Educator’s Council (IDEC) competition.
Department of Family and Consumer …
Hand washing is one thing but using the big guns of cleaning and sanitizing can decimate the coronavirus threat at home and in a workplace.
“Cleaning and sanitation are not the same, but are steps in the overall process,” said …
Coronavirus is taking a bite out of local businesses on Main Street and now the implications for agriculture are beginning to take shape, said the rural entrepreneurship specialist with University of Wyoming Extension.
Those implications include falling commodity prices affecting …
Donated personal protection equipment (PPE) from various departments and offices in the University of Wyoming’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is being collected and taken to Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Laramie.
John Connett in the Department of Ecosystem Science …
Social distancing is a necessary precaution to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean communities can’t stay connected, especially with older adults, said a gerontologist with the University of Wyoming.
About 11.7 percent of Wyoming is …
Wyomingites need to respond aggressively to the coronavirus rapidly disrupting jobs, said a University of Wyoming Extension personal finance specialist.
Gov. Mark Gordon’s order to close public spaces meant those who work in the entertainment, restaurant and bar, travel, retail …
Here’s how one University of Wyoming Extension educator surveying malting barley markets in the Big Horn Basin and an extension agricultural economics scientist browsing a table recipe book in France came to the same conclusion.
Their idea to bring ancient …
Researchers at the University of Wyoming hope a $340,000 grant to study the effects of compost on a number of factors in southeast Wyoming will also address a problem sprouting for organic wheat producers.
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources …
Wyoming food network proponents will meet tomorrow, Thursday, via teleconference taking the second step toward creating infrastructure they say could put local food on kitchen tables, money in producer pockets and pump revenue through Wyoming economies.
The move springs from …
Wyoming students in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources are using satellite images from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to gauge and improve lands owned by their families.
Photographs are from years of satellite collection and offered free by …