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The University of Wyoming Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing has named clinical agencies in Casper, Rock Springs, Saratoga and Sheridan as community partners. The “Community Partner” awards recognize clinical agencies that work with the school to educate the next generation of nurses. This fall, the awards are presented to Mountain View Regional Hospital in Casper, which works closely with the Basic BSN program; Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County in Rock Springs, involved with the Bachelors Reach for Accelerated Nursing Degree (BRAND) pro...
A Saratoga Elementary School teacher is among nearly two dozen educators who will return to their classrooms this fall with new skills and ideas to stimulate young peoples interest in science, after spending two weeks this summer working with astronomy and education experts at the University of Wyoming. Annette Mason-Kelley, who teaches first grade at Saratoga Elementary School, was on the UW campus as part of something called Launching Astronomy: Standards and STEM Integration (LASSI). It’s one of several UW programs aimed at helping K-12 e...
The 103rd Wyoming State Fair and Rodeo is accepting local entries from Wyoming cowboys and cowgirls to participate in the 2015 PRCA Rodeo. Rodeo performances are scheduled for August 13-14 at the State Fairgrounds. Contestants must be entered by July 24, 2015 at 2 p.m. All Wyoming residents 18 years and older are eligible to compete in the State Fair Rodeo. Seven traditional rodeo events are offered (bareback ridding, saddle bronc riding, tie down roping, team roping, steer wrestling, steer roping and girls barrel racing). Contestants must...
Seeking insights to help moose, elk, mule deer and bighorn sheep populations, researchers from the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the U.S. Geological Survey and other partners will spend much of March capturing animals on their winter ranges in western and southern Wyoming. Members of the public will have an opportunity to closely follow the work. As scientists did during deer captures earlier this winter, researchers with the UW-headquartered Wyoming Migration...
Two University of Wyoming graduates played key roles in last week’s successful NASA test flight of a spacecraft designed to eventually take humans to Mars. Griffin Corpening, formerly of Saratoga,who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from UW in 1977 and 1984, was part of the Mission Management Team that guided decisions during the launch of the Orion spacecraft as well as coordinated NASA flight readiness reviews and the assessment of the Delta IV Heavy Rocket that carried the craft into space. He serves as deput...
Most evenings you'll find Bill Baker sitting in front of his Saratoga apartment basking from the warmth of the chiminea glowing with fire. The retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, former Halliburton recruiter, and college assistant dean has a great view of the playing fields across Bridge Street to watch evening competition play out. This year's Legacy Award recipient, Baker and his wife, Jeannette, who died in August last year, established the Bill and Jeannette Baker Agriculture Scholarship.... Full story
While one group was in Guatemala working on a water distribution system, another was in Laramie, planning a visit to a village in Kenya that requested help building a dormitory for schoolgirls. Projects such as these are all in day's work for students in the University of Wyoming chapter of Engineers Without Borders, an organization that provides opportunities for students to contribute to meaningful engineering projects in various parts of the world. "I joined because I wanted to do something...