CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Aug. 15 -- Laramie County Community College issued the following news: Following an adjudication by a team representing the Region 7 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, the Laramie County Community College theatre program received nine regional nominations and honors for the spring production of the play, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. This is the most nominations the LCCC program has received from KCACTF for a theatre production. Three stu more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Aug. 16 -- North Carolina Community Colleges System issued the following news: The State Board of Community Colleges approved the appointments of three college presidents on Friday. Lew Hunnicutt was named the president of Nash Community College in Rocky Mount, succeeding Bill Carver, who will retire in October. Hunnicutt is assistant provost and campus director for the University of Georgia - Griffin Campus and previously held administrative positions at three higher  more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 9 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The University of Wyoming's art community is full of inspiring creatives, and people are starting to notice. The Wyoming Arts Council recently named four alumni and two professors as 2020 fellowship recipients. Jason Stenar Clark and Erin Jones received Creative Writing Fellowships -- in poetry for Clark and fiction for Jones. Both earned Master of Fine Arts degrees in creative writing from UW and current more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 9 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The University of Wyoming Energy Resources Council (ERC) will meet at 8 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23, in the BP Collaboration Center on the UW campus. The council will receive updates on the search for a new executive director and the School of Energy Resources' biennial budget request, and hold presentations from the school's divisions outlining goals for the upcoming academic year. The ERC was established by th more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 6 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Startup businesses across Wyoming will have a pipeline to student interns from the University of Wyoming as a result of a new program of UW's Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE). Starting this summer, the IIE will provide financial support to interns working for early-stage ventures in the state. "This program will allow our students to experience what it is like to work in the exciting ent more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 9 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: University of Wyoming student Trenton Cassibry, of Colorado Springs, Colo., was awarded a scholarship from the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL). "I am entering my final year of the landman program at UW, and I have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the oil and gas industry," Cassibry says. "This program would not be possible without the support from AAPL, and I am humbled for them to inv more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 7 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The University of Wyoming received an $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to field test a foam-assisted hydrocarbon gas injection technology that could ultimately recover a higher percentage of stranded oil from unconventional reservoirs in North Dakota's Bakken Formation. In a collaborative effort with Hess Corporation and Dow, Mohammad Piri, a Wyoming Excellence Chair in Petroleum E more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 7 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The University of Wyoming Science Initiative's Learning Actively Mentoring Program (LAMP) awarded seven scholarships to K-12 educators from Wyoming schools, enabling them to participate in the Roadmap to STEAM Conference at UW. The conference is a professional development opportunity focused on active-learning experiences with high-level engagement and innovative practices and instructional strategies to p more PR

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Aug. 12 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: A top official with the U.S. Department of Energy will visit Wyoming next week for a firsthand look at the State's investments in fossil energy technology and the mining industry. Steven Winberg, Assistant Secretary of Fossil Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has accepted an invitation from Governor Gordon to visit the Cowboy State Aug. 21-23. Winberg and several DOE staff will spend thr more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 12 -- Yale University issued the following news release: From as far as Wyoming and as near as Connecticut, general education teachers, special education teachers, and school administrators came together in New Haven July 21-25 to learn about the latest developments in the science of literacy at Haskins Laboratories' annual Summer Institute, entitled "The Literate Brain: Linking Researchers with Practitioners." The group benefited from eight in-depth lectures from  more PR