CHADRON, Nebraska, June 25 -- Chadron State College issued the following news release: Chadron State College alumna Lindsey Boardman of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, earned the Maitland P. Simmons Memorial Award from the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) in March. The award is one of 15 given annually to educators who are in the first five years of their teaching careers. "This award feels so good. If young teachers don't find their 'why,' they can burn out. Boardman said. "Sometimes teach more PR

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine issued the following statement regarding vote in the House to pass a bill to make the D.C. the 51st state (H.R. 51): "The U.S. House of Representatives finally voted to grant the District of Columbia's more than 700,000 residents one of the most fundamental American rights: equal representation. "District residents, who number more than Wyoming and Vermont, pay more in federal taxes than any other states' residents. Ye more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 25 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The year 2020 has brought a deep economic decline and the coronavirus. Might as well bring on pestilence. Miller moths -- the adult stage of the army cutworm -- are being reported in numbers not seen in Nebraska and Colorado for at least five years, and up to 19 in some locations, according to Scott Schell, University of Wyoming Extension entomologist. Wyoming towns also are being visited as the moths fo more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 24 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded $2.1 million to the University of Wyoming Family Medicine Residency Program at Casper to expand primary care residency training in Wyoming. The grant supports the creation of a rural training track to better prepare physicians who will practice in rural communities throughout the state. The grant, known as "Primary Care Training and more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 25 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Physical distancing measures to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus appear to have dramatically reduced the number of deaths that would have occurred otherwise, University of Wyoming researchers say. That's primarily because physical distancing reduces the rate of infection, but it's also because of the associated reduction in air pollution -- which is estimated to be responsible for about 4.2 millio more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 26 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Ryan O'Neil, who has led the University of Wyoming Dean of Students Office on an interim basis since January, has been named UW's dean of students. The appointment was made this week by Vice President for Student Affairs Kim Chestnut. "Given the great work Ryan has completed and plans for moving forward, the Division of Student Affairs is thrilled that she has accepted the offer to officially serve as th more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 23 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on June 22: A fundamental question in biology is how individual cells within a multicellular organism interact to coordinate diverse processes. A University of Wyoming researcher and his Ph.D. students studied myxobacteria -- common soil microbes that prey off other microbes for food -- and posed the question: "How do cells from a diverse environment recognize other cells as related or clonal to build soci more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 24 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The potential development of a new industry to extract rare earth elements from the ash of Wyoming's Powder River Basin coal has taken a step forward with a federal grant through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The grant is part of DOE's Technology Commercialization Fund, which was created to promote DOE national laboratories' promising energy technology and expand the agency's efforts to foster comm more PR

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, June 26 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on June 23: Wyoming has submitted its Reply Brief to the United States Supreme Court in its challenge to Washington State's unconstitutional discrimination against a proposed coal export terminal. The terminal would provide access to new markets for Wyoming and Montana coal. In the brief, Wyoming and Montana reject the State of Washington's arguments and stand united in their belief that Washington's  more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 27 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Biomedical research and education in Wyoming will continue, thanks to a nearly $17.2 million Institutional Development Award (IDeA) granted to a University of Wyoming program from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Wyoming IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) program received a five-year grant, marking the fourth time UW ha more PR