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Over the summer, the first two women were granted tenure in soil sciences at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Karen Vaughan and Dr. Linda van Diepen have dedicated time to looking at what diversity looks like in their field. Wyoming Public Radio's Ivy Engel sat down with both of them to discuss why the soil sciences field has historically had diversity difficulties. Dr. Karen Vaughan started on women's participation in the field.

Audubon Rockies hosts an annual BioBlitz somewhere in Wyoming. The event brings together scientists, naturalists and the general public to catalog as many species of insects, animals and plants in a particular area. Wyoming Public Radio's Catherine Wheeler brings us this postcard.

Wyoming's cases of COVID-19 have jumped to over 1,300 active cases, mainly due to the highly contagious delta variant. But there's also this matter of low vaccination rates of roughly 35 percent of the population. A group of University of Wyoming (UW) researchers recently studied what messages did the best job of convincing people across the country to get vaccinated. UW Ph.D. student Madison Ashworth was the lead author of the paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It's the latest in a series of coronavirus-related research conducted by UW College of Business economists. She joins us now.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Hafele-Keating experiment, a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity. It turns out that Joseph Hafele, the physicist that worked on the experiment, is a former Laramie resident. Wyoming Public Radio's Adlynn Jamaludin reports.

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