Megan Feighery

Part-Time News Reporter And Cultural Affairs Producer
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Email: mfeigher@uwyo.edu

Megan Feighery is a Southern California native with both a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in American Studies from Cal State Fullerton. She has backpacked solo all over the world and taught English abroad for five years in both the Republic of Georgia and Japan.

You’ll most likely find her searching for the best hot chocolate in town while reading a mystery novel, cooing over every cat she sees, or hiking/kayaking. Megan is excited to be in Laramie this summer working on the HumaNature podcast. 

In the fall of 2019, Megan was promoted to a part-time paid position.

Playwright Will Arbery Wins Prestigious Whiting Award

By • Mar 26, 2020
Victor Llorante

Playwright Will Arbery is among ten winners of this years Whiting Award. The prestigious award is the largest literary award in the U.S and recognizes ten emerging writers each year. Arbery was the only playwright to win this year and finds the entire experience both surreal and uplifting.

UW Professor Contributes To Nationwide "Her Flag" Project Celebrating The 19th Amendment

By • Mar 20, 2020
Bethann Garramon Merkle

Her Flag is a nationwide project celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave some U.S. women the right to vote. Bethann Garramon Merkle is a research scientist at the University of Wyoming and one of the women chosen to participate in the Her Flag project.

Golden Eagle Conservation Plans Take Flight Thanks To UW Scientist

By • Mar 5, 2020
Mike Lockhart

Wyoming is one of the most important golden eagle habitats in North America. But the iconic raptors are facing a potential population decline due to conventional and renewable energy development and other human-caused threats.

February 28th, 2020

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Land Purchase Raises Tax Concerns For Counties

Wyoming Artist Finds Beauty In Death In New Show

By • Feb 28, 2020
Cristy Anspach

A Pinedale artist has a new show on display that was inspired by…roadkill. Cristy Anspach has spent the last two and a half years making ceramic jars to honor each animal killed on her route between Boulder and Pinedale. Over the course of eight months she made 110 jars. The show, titled "Unintended Consequences" will be on display at the Mystery Print Gallery until March 1.

Anspach talked to Wyoming Public Radio's Megan Feighery about finding beauty in death and how every creature deserves respect.

New Research Could Change How Wyoming Reclaims Abandoned Mine Sites

By • Feb 19, 2020
Kristina Hufford

A new study published by researchers at the University of Wyoming could make mine cleanups less ecologically impactful. The scientists tested something called geomorphic reclamation at two abandoned mine sites in Freemont County and just outside of Rock Springs, and compared the findings with traditional practices.

February 7th, 2020

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The Shale Revolution Is Changing Fast… And Wyoming Is Vulnerable

Critically Acclaimed Play Puts Young Intellectual Conservatives In The Spotlight

By • Feb 7, 2020
Zack DeZon

An off Broadway play made waves last year for being about the most unlikely of subjects…young, intellectual Catholic conservatives. Set in Wyoming, Will Arbery's play Heroes of the Fourth Turning does not reject or promote right wing values.

Instead it lets the viewer interpret the meaning entirely for themselves. The play completed its run at Playwrights Horizons theater in New York last fall, but he hopes to eventually bring the play to Wyoming.

Arbery told Wyoming Public Radio's Megan Feighery that when he began writing, he couldn’t have imagined setting the play anywhere else.

Laramie's First Boutique Meat Processing Plant Set To Open Soon

By • Jan 30, 2020
Makenna Greenwald

Back in 2017, the first USDA-inspected full-service meat processing plant in the state of Wyoming in over 40 years opened up shop in Cody. Now, Laramie is set to open its first-ever meat processing plant as soon as March. 

Museum Exhibit Tells The Story Of Wyoming's Only All-Black Town

By • Jan 28, 2020
Laramie County Library Source

The Wyoming State Museum's traveling exhibit on black homesteaders, "Empire: A Community of African-Americans on the Wyoming Plains" is on display now at the Laramie County Library in Cheyenne. Founded in 1908, Empire was a black community about ten miles northeast of Torrington, and about a mile past the Nebraskan border. 

The University Of Wyoming Grows Ancient Grains For Future Profits

By • Jan 13, 2020
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Senior research scientist Thomas Foulke first learned about these ancient grains in France, where he takes students for a yearly agriculture program. He was flipping through an old French cookbook when he came across a recipe that called for spelt. Unfamiliar with the word, he looked it up and found that it was a grain, one of the first ever cultivated.

November 8th, 2019

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Bureau of Land Management

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Do E-Bikes Belong On Public Lands? Depends On Who You Ask

Award-Winning Play Examines Love And Technology In Its Wyoming Premier

By • Nov 8, 2019
Connor Novotny

An award-winning play has its Wyoming premier in Laramie. Relative Theatrics presents Madeleine George's play The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence at Laramie's Gryphon Theater through November 16.

The work won an Outer Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2013. As George told Wyoming Public Radio's Megan Feighery, the inspiration came from the most unlikely of places.