LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept. 14 (TNSper) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Sherra St. Clair has accepted a position as the new McMurry Chair of Mental Health at the University of Wyoming's Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing. St Clair will oversee the integration of mental health into care delivery across programs in the nursing school. In this new position, St Clair will focus on education and practice to increase the quality and quantity of psychiatric mental health pra  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept. 17 (TNSEve) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: The University of Wyoming's School of Energy Resources (SER) and the UW College of Law's Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies (CLERR) will virtually host the 2021 Landscape Discussion on Energy Law and Policy in the Rockies Conference Friday, Oct. 8. The conference is presented in collaboration with the Wyoming State Bar's Energy and Natural Resources Section. The  more

BOZEMAN, Montana, Sept. 17 -- Montana State University issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: Montana State University will honor Taylor Brown, a widely respected broadcaster, rancher and former state legislator, with an honorary doctorate during commencement ceremonies set for Friday, Dec. 17, in the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. Today the state's Board of Regents approved an honorary doctorate for Brown, a third-generation Montana rancher from Sand Springs and a two-term state sena  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept. 17 (TNSOps) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: Input from internal and external stakeholders has resulted in some likely adjustments to the University of Wyoming's proposal for academic restructuring and reductions. While the university's administration is moving forward with a recommendation for reconfiguration of some academic colleges, along with discontinuance, reorganization, reduction and consolidation of some departm  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept. 17 (TNSRes) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: The University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science recently received some international attention for its expertise. And that knowledge is expected to show up in a French documentary film about aerosols sometime next year. Daniel McCoy, an assistant professor, and Larry Oolman, a senior research scientist, both in the Department of Atmospheric Science, were interviewed  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept. 14 (TNSgra) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: University of Wyoming Libraries has received a second round of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support ongoing newspaper digitization work. The two-year, $200,000 grant will support the ongoing Wyoming Digital Newspaper Project, which began in August 2019 after the first NEH grant was awarded. The first phase of the project involves the digitization of 100,000 pa  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept. 16 (TNSGra) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Sept. 15, 2021: The global disruption produced by climate change will place further stress on the world's freshwater supplies due to higher temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and increases in human population, according to John Hoberg. This is expected to result in half of the world's population facing freshwater shortages by 2030. A research team at the University of Wyoming received a  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Sept. 16 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Sept. 15, 2021: Governor Mark Gordon announced today a two-pronged plan to combat the federal overreach of the Biden Administration in proposing to mandate vaccinations. The first step involves the Attorney General preparing for legal action to stop the Biden-announced vaccine mandate for private employers. Although the details of this proposed new federal requirement are not yet released, it is imp  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Sept. 10 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Governor Mark Gordon responded forcefully this week to a letter from Congressman James Clyburn which misrepresented Wyoming's efforts in the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP). Congressman Clyburn complained of nationwide underspending by the 426 local governments eligible to administer rental assistance. "His unwarranted shot places blame for that problem squarely on the shoulders of Wyoming  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Sept. 17 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2021: Governor Gordon announced today that the State of Wyoming is seeking state management of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). The State is petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the GYE grizzly bear population, following 46 years and more than $52 million in investment from Wyoming. Grizzly bears, by all measures, have been fully-recovered since  more