Towering well above most cars, other bicyclists, and pedestrians, Patrick Corcoran is hard to miss as he zips around the streets of Laramie atop his custom built tall bicycle. “The first time I saw him was last fall when there was like six inches of snow on the ground. He jumped on that thing and…
University of Wyoming doctoral student Adeline Borti started the “Access to Books Project” in 2016, with the aim of providing better opportunities for struggling students to expand their reading abilities in her native home, Ghana. The project provides books and other literacy resources to encourage reading for pleasure and for educational facilities in places where…
The preparation before a bowl game starts with more than just the teams practicing and the coaches going over every play. While these are very important, there are a lot of behind the scenes factors that take place many may not realize. These factors help to improve the overall experience of the bowl game. Days…
Members of the UW rodeo team and nonmembers alike are taking in the loss of longtime club rodeo coach, George Howard. Howard, 59, passed away Sunday, Nov. 26 at the Wyoming Medical Center in Casper after suffering from a gunshot wound Friday, Nov. 24. The incident took place southwest of Douglas Converse County Undersheriff Nathan…
For Wyoming residents, pronghorn are a part of everyday life, however, the hundred mile migration pattern they follow is largely unknown by most. A decade ago, little work had been done on documenting migrations in Wyoming or migrations in general. That is until Emilene Ostlind set out to write her masters’ thesis in creative writing…
Starting on Jan. 29, 2018, the University of Wyoming Art Museum will have a new director to succeed the former director Susan Moldenhauer of the UW Art Museum, who officially retired in early November. Professor Marianne Eileen Wardle of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, will be the new director. Wardle has worked with the…
The founder of Education Abroad office at UW was awarded for going above and beyond call of duty to make international education valuable at the university. Ruth Shepherd, the assistant director of the Education Abroad office at UW, was recognized at the NAFSA conference, that took place in Denver this November, for her outstanding contribution…
Graduate student Jan James will be presenting her paper “Negating the Female Gamer: A Cluster Criticism of BioWare’s Game Cover for Mass Effect: Andromeda” at the 103rd National Communications Association in the Visual Communication Division held in Dallas, Texas. James is a non-traditional graduate student in the Communications Department. Her passion for equal representation in…
Aya Mistica and David Flores of the University of Wyoming have received $1,000 each as a scholarship award from Union Wireless. The students were honored earlier this year at the Tau Beta Pi Awards Banquet. Union Wireless is a telephone company and landline provider that has towers in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Montana. Their scholarship…
Designing Modern Families: International Perspectives of Intercountry and Transracial Adoptions; this is the conference UW professor, Dr. Tracy Patton, has been asked to speak at in Germany beginning Friday, Nov. 17. Patton is the co-author, in coordination with Sally Schedlock, of the work “Gender, Whiteness & Power in Rodeo: Breaking Away from the Ties of…
Macey Moore, a Converse County businesswoman, has been appointed to fill the recent vacancy on the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees. She is the owner of a Douglas realty firm who, along with her husband, owns and operates both a ranch and a historic Douglas hotel. She will finish the term of previous trustee…
UW sophomore Karla Contreras, diver for the Cowgirls swimming and diving team, scored a season best of 332.8 points on the three-meter diving competition Thursday, Oct. 26. In relation to the next best diver at that meet scoring 229.95 points. This feat came after placing first in every dual meet she competed in this year….
