UW Highlights

World-renowned archeologist George Frison died this Sunday, Sept. 6 at the age of 95. Frison founded the University of Wyoming Anthropology Department and was the first state archeologist.

A University of Wyoming team has received a $5 million grant to research the Earth's critical zone.

A team of astronomy students at the University of Wyoming have compiled the largest ever catalog of quasars.

After five more University of Wyoming students tested positive for COVID-19, the University has paused its fall return plan.  

A University of Wyoming life science team has received a $6 million National Science Foundation grant.

The University of Wyoming will conduct upwards of 25,000 COVID-19 tests per week when all students return to campus September 28.

The University of Wyoming has changed its plans and will begin the fall semester on August 24 and will only have limited in-person classes beginning September 7.

The Mountain West Conference, which includes the University of Wyoming, is cancelling all sporting events for the fall.

University of Wyoming researchers examined how elephants use water as a tool in a new study.

It's difficult to build electronics in space, but a University of Wyoming and NASA partnership is working on a method.

Afternoon thunderstorms tend to happen in July and August across the mountain west. University of Wyoming Atmospheric Scientist Karen Kosiba said that's because it's monsoon season.

Polar bears have been endangered for years, but a new study finds that without a decrease in greenhouse gas emission, almost all polar bears will die by 2100.

The Great Plains Institute and the University of Wyoming have published a new analysis on carbon capture and storage.

Wyomingites have a rare opportunity to look to the skies for rocky and icy remnants left over from when our solar system formed—also known as a comet.

A new study finds that rural westerners care about the environment just as much as people in cities.

The University of Wyoming is planning to reopen for in-person instruction this fall. But after many years of steady and sometimes increasing enrollment, the institution is expecting a significant drop because of COVID-19.

University of Wyoming researchers are studying the best way to deal with a pest problem.

The BioBlitz asks people in Wyoming to take pictures of wildlife and plants so that scientists can get a snapshot of the ecosystem in the state. 

The Western Bumble Bee Working Group published a study that found the probability of finding a western bumblebee decreased by 93% from 1998 to 2018. The study, published in Ecosphere, explained that this may be because of changes in habitat, climate, and pressures from disease, pesticides, and other animals.

When the University of Wyoming announced that it will resume in-person classes and re-open campus in the fall, international student Aina Farid Shah was worried. "At first I was shocked, because, isn't that unsafe?" she said.

The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees has approved a plan to reopen campus this fall, but some classes will still be taught online.

Researchers at the University of Wyoming will send an experiment to the International Space Station this fall. The experiment will look at how tardigrades respond to the stresses of being in space. Tardigrades, or water bears, are tiny animals that live in water and look like chubby gummy bears under a microscope.