Hannah Robinson Hwood3@uwyo.edu One hundred forty non-tenured and tenured track faculty and academic staff positions are open to new hires for the next academic year, according to University of Wyoming staff. The numbers are not much different than past years, but with the current UW hiring freeze, it puts UW in a tight position, Vice…
Hannah Robinson Hwood3@uwyo.edu Two days of snowfall and a cold month prior to Nov. 27 made for the best opening weekend for Snowy Range Ski Area in the past six years, the mountain’s proprietor said. The ski conditions of Snowy Range are better than they have been in recent memory providing more open areas compared…
Hannah Robinson Hwood3@uwyo.edu A bill introduced by Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson last week would make protection of gray wolves in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes region a state responsibility rather than a federal one. Gray wolves in Wyoming have been under federal protection for the past year since a…
Hannah Robinson hwood3@uwyo.edu When Norman Frost is not studying for one of his business classes at the University of Wyoming, he can be found in his yellow food trailer in front of the Ranger bar or catering a local or campus event. After working in about every restaurant in Laramie, Frost decided to put his…
Hannah Robinson Hwood3@uwyo.edu Tyler Thompson believes spending time learning in the outdoors is as important, if not more, than spending time learning in the classroom. He spends his summers ascending mountains by climbing then returns to the same mountain ranges in winter to descend them on a snowboard. The senior wildlife biology and management major…
Over 250 middle school and high school students along with 90 volunteers converged on campus Monday to go beyond standard expectations of scholarship and present about leaders of the American past. After a visit to Ohio and seeing National History Day first hand 35 years ago, retired historian Dave Kathka, decided to help introduce a…
Mark Jenkins has been mountaineering since his teens. Growing up in Wyoming it became natural for him to be in the sun and finding his way up towards it. Recently, he found himself in an opposite scenario. The mountaineer spent a week in a cave so vast he calls it the Mt. Everest of caves….
No one has an excuse when they say they don’t know what to do with their weekend. On a typical weekend, there is a plethora of activities to choose from on and off campus. For example, I had to choose whether to go to a hypnotist or go to a bluegrass concert at a downtown…
The Western Thunder Marching Band will represent the University of Wyoming overseas as it spends the 2016 New Year in Ireland. Western Thunder was invited to participate in the American Celebration of Music in Ireland, where the group will play several concerts and collaborate with other bands. The opportunity may shape the students’ lives, said…
Pink high heels—each fitting a specific personality—clack against a stage floor as nine individual women take their places readying to charm an audience with popular music. The catch is, there are no bands or tracks to back them up. The Bettys, a cappella group, and University of Wyoming RSO, is composed of women students who…
Boo! Did I scare you? Probably not. Ebola! Did I scare you? Maybe that did the trick. With Halloween approaching, it seems that Ebola has more people shaking in their boots than the scariest time of year. I agree; it can be scary. A fever can turn into bleeding internally and externally until a miraculous…
In the atrium of the Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center a flutist, pianist and saxophonist gathered as a trio to play music inspired by nature. And to represent today’s society to help emphasize that art and science are not and should not be thought of as separate entities. Verismo Trio, a group based in classical, jazz…
