CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Aug. 23 -- Laramie County Community College issued the following news: This year, the Wyoming Library Association selected the Ludden Library & Learning Commons at Laramie County Community College as this year's recipient of the Outstanding Library award. This award recognizes a significant project completed within the last two years. According to the WLA records, the Ludden Library is only the third library to receive this recognition. The newly renovated library was unvei more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 16 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: A top official with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will visit the University of Wyoming next week as part of a trip to the state to get a firsthand look at the state's investments in fossil energy technology and the mining industry. Steven Winberg, assistant secretary of fossil energy, will be on the UW campus Friday, Aug. 23, to tour university facilities and hear about UW energy research. It's part more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 19 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Ten researchers from around the nation and beyond will connect with the University of Wyoming and advance their studies at UW's American Heritage Center (AHC) as a result of grants from that premier historical archive. The AHC recently awarded its 2019 travel grants to scholars exploring topics ranging from dude ranching to a 1940s art movement. "It's a diverse group with a broad ran more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 13 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: With a total of 544 physicians serving a population of about 580,000 people spread across 97,818 square miles, Wyoming ranks 44th in the nation when it comes to having a sufficient physician workforce. While there's a clear need for more physicians to serve the rural and underserved communities throughout the state, the challenge is not only how to prepare medical students for practice in those communitie more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 24 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: How do big-game animals know where to migrate across hundreds of miles of vast Wyoming landscapes year after year? Among scientists, there are two camps of thought. First is that animals use local cues within their vicinity to determine where to migrate. Animals might move up to areas with greener forage -- often termed green-wave surfing -- or move down from mountains with deeper sno more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 12 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science chair and Professor Bart Geerts recently was named a fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). The AMS has more than 13,000 members, including researchers in atmospheric, oceanic and hydrologic sciences, but less than half a percent of the membership receives this distinction, a recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of atmo more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 23 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: A University of Wyoming associate professor of chemical engineering has received a Department of Energy (DOE) Basic Energy Sciences grant to investigate using smart membrane materials to more efficiently remove pollutants or impurities or to recover valuable materials -- such as rare earth elements -- from water or other industrial liquids. These materials could prove effective at better separating metal  more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 22 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: For every acre of mule deer habitat taken by roads, well pads and other oil and gas development infrastructure in Wyoming's Green River Basin, an average of 4.6 other acres of available forage is lost, according to new research by University of Wyoming scientists. That's because deer avoid areas close to such human disturbance, even when there's quality forage in those areas, says the more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 19 [TNSresearch] -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Wyoming and Nebraska could suffer an $89 million economic loss if crops on the 107,000 acres affected by an irrigation tunnel collapse near Fort Laramie are a total loss, according to information from the University of Wyoming and Nebraska Extension services. Inspection and repairs have continued since the July 17 collapse and resulting breach of the Goshen/Gering-Fort Laramie Canal. The tun more PR