CASPER, Wyoming, March 25 -- Casper College issued the following news: Casper College adjunct instructor Sheri Coughenour was recently named the Casper College Innovative Educator of the Year for 2020-2021 through the Wyoming Innovations in Learning Conference. Coughenour first taught for the college as an adjunct in the business department starting in 1996. She has been continuously teaching for the college since August 2010 first as a computer information systems adjunct. In the fall of 2019  more

RIVERTON, Wyoming, March 23 -- Central Wyoming College issued the following news: Last week, Central Wyoming College's Instructor of Agriculture and Meat Science Amanda Winchester welcomed several vehicles and refrigerated storage trailers to the CWC campus newly branded with "Grow Your Own: Food, Jobs, Communities." The meat science workforce training equipment, supported in part by the Rocky Mountain Power Foundation, will be utilized to support education and training programs in local meat p  more

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 24 -- The North Carolina Democratic Party issued the following news: On this day eleven years ago, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, providing health care to over 133 million Americans, including those with pre-existing conditions. The ACA also provides states the option to expand Medicaid -- a tool that Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly have blocked for years. But the American Rescue Plan opens the door for expansion by giving states l  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, March 25 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: IMPACT Casper, a business development program of the University of Wyoming with business incubators in Laramie, Casper and Sheridan, will continue to build upon the successes of its Casper Start-Up Challenge with a fifth year of the competition and another $50,000 seed fund. "Every year, the applicants to the Start-Up Challenge get better and better," says Eric Schlidt, director of IMPACT Casper. "Just n  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, March 26 (TNSawa) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Lauren Shoemaker, a University of Wyoming assistant professor in the Department of Botany, has been selected as a 2021-25 Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The ESA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of professional ecologists, and this special recognition is awarded to ESA members who have made outstanding contributions to advancing or applying ecological know  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, March 25 (TNSRes) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on March 24, 2021: The recent image of a jaguar near the United States-Mexico border by a University of Arizona graduate student with ties to the University of Wyoming suggests that habitat connectivity might remain between the southwestern U.S. and the northernmost jaguar subpopulation in Sonora, Mexico -- more than 100 miles south of the border. Ganesh Marin, a doctoral student in the School of  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 19 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Governor Mark Gordon announced that the last Wyoming National Guard members serving in Washington DC as part of the Capitol Response mission have returned home. Approximately 30 members of the Wyoming Army National Guard volunteered to continue efforts in Washington DC following the approved requests from the federal government to provide security, communications and logistical support. "I applaud t  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 24 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on March 22, 2021: The Wyoming Governor's Big Game License Coalition has finalized 2020 fundraising numbers and reports raising nearly $1.1 million for Wyoming wildlife conservation efforts. The funds were generated through the sale of the Wyoming Governor's complimentary big game licenses. It's a notable benchmark for the Coalition, with license revenues exceeding all prior years of fundraising. "The  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 25 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on March 24, 2021: The state of Wyoming filed a lawsuit today challenging the de-facto moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal land issued by President Biden and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. The suit asserts that Haaland's implementation of the leasing moratorium contained in Executive Order 14008 is invalid under federal law. "Following a careful review of not only the President's Exec  more