University of Wyoming News

A grizzly bear chases an elk calf in Yellowstone National Park near Mammoth, Wyo., in 2009.

The 28-year-old University of Wyoming student who allegedly threatened herself with rape in a Facebook hoax in April was convicted of aggravated assault in 2005 after she brandished a gun at an employer who fired her.

Pepsi manufacturer and distributor Wyoming Beverage Inc. will remain the exclusive beverage provider at the University of Wyoming for the next 10 years.

The University of Wyoming has established a policy that will allow students at Wyoming community colleges who earn associate of arts or associate of science degrees to be automatically admitted to the university.

All students who receive an associates degree from a Wyoming community college will automatically be admitted into the UW.

The University of Wyoming in the US has broken ground on the new Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts, as part of its second phase of investments in the arts.

A retiring University of Wyoming dean says the college is in danger of sinking into mediocrity unless it continues to attract and retain the best faculty available.

Next Fuel, Inc. , which develops and commercializes "clean" energy and related environmental technologies, announced today that they have hired an independent professional engineering firm and have engaged IKOR Industries, Inc., an international filter manufacturer, as the company moves closer to commercializing its Low-Energy Pervaporation water ... (more)

The University of Wyoming has signed a deal that gets it into the algal biomass industry.

Four Wyoming 4-H'ers were chosen by the University of Wyoming Extension's 4-H Youth Development Program for the American Youth Leadership Program in Samoa next winter.

CWC Professor Todd Guenther said students Mallory Ann Hayes, Nico Holt, Billy Hovendick, Jordan Stapley and Jennifer Thornton presented research papers based on archaeological field work conducted 2012.

Hobbyist beekeeper Rene Sollars removes a comb, in the process of being built by the bees, from one of the three custom built hives in her garden on April 25, 2013 in Laramie, Wyo.

If the University of Wyoming 's engineering school is to be ranked among the top 50 in the nation as state and legislative leaders envision, it will require investing an additional $14.7 million a year in the program, according to a UW report.

Jon Amundsen is one of ten Nebraskans that will participate in a teacher training program called 'Out of this World' at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Heather Duncan, who earned a Masters of Education from Brandon University, has returned to becomeDean of Education, a posting that was announced today.

The discovery of lithium in Sweetwater County has already attracted four lithium lease applications, but the applications are on hold for now while state officials develop a strategy on how to handle mining of the new resource.

Snow cover has been on the decline in the Northern Hemisphere since 1970, according to Lee Bergquist with the Journal Sentinel.

When the sky is clear and the day is warm and still, Rene Sollars' honeybees come out of their hives to fly.

The Laramie Project , a play about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming will be presented in the Black Box Theater at the Groton-Dunstable Regional High School on Thursday, May 16th, at 6:30 p.m. The play is sponsored by the Gay Straight Alliance at the high school, it's a dramatic ... (more)

A brand new FieldTurf Revolution playing surface with a distinctive Wyoming design will be unveiled on Jonah Field at War Memorial Stadium for the 2013 college football season.