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Around Wyoming brings you news from around the state, keeping you informed with brief updates of stories you may have missed.

Around Wyoming, Friday, February 16

A cat recently helped catch a serial burglary suspect in Casper. Oil City News reports a small cat was seen following the female suspect in some security camera footage. When the suspect surrendered, the same cat followed her out.

Wyoming got a little feature in a Professional Bull Riders promo video. It shows “Yellowstone” actor Cole Hauser loading a bull and bringing it to the rodeo. Along the way, the camera pans over a sign pointing toward Yellowstone National Park and the truck passes Cheyenne Frontier Days.

Two teams of University of Wyoming students are advancing to Phase 2 in a NASA design challenge meant to solve current space exploration challenges. The UW Crater Cowboys designed and built a hand carrier device that can store and move tools during lunar extravehicular activity in microgravity. The UW Space Cowboys designed and built a lunar flag, flagpole and anchoring system that can be deployed on the lunar surface. At the end of April, the teams will test their devices in microgravity.

And, according to the Learn to Ride Report, Wyoming is in the top three states for being eager to learn to ride a bike.

Ivy started as a science news intern in the summer of 2019 and has been hooked on broadcast ever since. Her internship was supported by the Wyoming EPSCoR Summer Science Journalism Internship program. In the spring of 2020, she virtually graduated from the University of Wyoming with a B.S. in biology with minors in journalism and business. When she’s not writing for WPR, she enjoys baking, reading, playing with her dog, and caring for her many plants.

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