UW Highlights

The University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates has created an online database of skulls and skeletons.

Matt Carling, faculty curator of the museum and associate professor in zoology and physiology, said the Coe Library assisted the museum in creating the free database.

The University of Wyoming will move forward with its plan to cut 10 percent from its budget.

The UW Board of Trustees approved the administration's $42.3 million budget reduction plan. This comes after Gov. Mark Gordon requested state agencies take a 10 percent cut from state funding due to a drop in revenue.

A University of Wyoming study finds that small disruptions to your morning routine can make you less productive throughout the day.

University of Wyoming researchers are trying to model the brain when it is exposed to drugs.

Over the past three years, the Wyoming legislature has passed laws to create a regulatory environment for blockchain application growth. Now, the new University of Wyoming Center for Blockchain and Digital Innovation hopes to help keep this new industry in the state.

Climate change is forcing insects to move to higher elevations.

Albany County will join Laramie County in requiring face coverings to be worn when people are in a public place and if they are lined up outside. 

Researchers at the University of Wyoming will soon begin to test the state's wastewater for COVID-19.

Researchers at the University of Wyoming are studying the safety of gravel roads in the state.

A researcher at the University of Wyoming studied the history of seabirds in the Falkland Islands, off the tip of Argentina. The goal was to learn how climate change affected the ecosystem in the past.

When University of Wyoming Department of Botany Associate Professor Daniel Laughlin realized he would have to teach ecology online for the fall semester, he started searching for a resource to show his students landscapes from afar.

When he didn't find what he was looking for, Laughlin and his graduate students designed the Global Vegetation Project.

Scientists at the University of Wyoming are studying how moose respond to bark beetles killing their forest habitats.

Due to Wyoming's economic downturn, Gov. Mark Gordon asked state agencies and departments to make 10 percent budget cuts.

Albany County has nearly 600 active, confirmed cases of the coronavirus, leading the state in total cases that have occurred since March.

Researchers at the University of Wyoming are developing and testing a computer model that predicts wildfire growth.

A new Black Studies Center has opened this fall at the University of Wyoming. The center aims on advancing the accurate histories of Black people and history in the state.

A University of Wyoming study finds that exposing wildland firefighters to heat may help them avoid heat-related illnesses.

Using the products of sewage treatment to fertilize soil may turn waste into a valuable resource.

A University of Wyoming professor is studying microscopic worms to see how their DNA is similar to humans.

A $48 million project will fund climate monitoring stations across the Upper Missouri River Basin in five states, including Wyoming.

A volcano on the floor of the ocean has recently been discovered by researchers.

Researchers at the University of Wyoming are trying to find out what goes on beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park.

A University of Wyoming team is exploring how robots can help with physical therapy.

University of Wyoming researchers are exploring the wake that is produced by wind turbines.