LARAMIE, Wyoming, March 8 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on March 7, 2022: The University of Wyoming's Katie Christensen is the recipient of the 2022 Wyoming Art Educator Award from the National Art Education Association (NAEA). Christensen's award is based from her previous work with Wyoming art education associations, including her roles as an arts education specialist at the Wyoming Arts Council from 2013-15 and as curator of education and statewide  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 12 -- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued the following news release: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joined 20 state attorneys general in urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to uphold a lower court order halting President Biden's unlawful vaccine mandate for federal contractors. Last fall, Rutledge along with 9 other state attorneys general successfully blocked the Biden Administration's vaccine mandate for federal contra  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- The Libertarian Party issued the following news release: On Wednesday, March 9th, at approximately 2pm MST, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed four bills into law, including HB 81, the state's first ever tri-partisan piece of legislation. Libertarian Representative Marshall Burt authored the Operation of Motorcycles - Disabled Persons bill which received the maximum number of co-sponsors from Republicans and Democrats and passed every reading in the House and Senate wit  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, March 9 (TNSRes) -- New Mexico State University issued the following news: As the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the nation and the globe two years ago, communities had to not only process, but quickly respond to, what was happening with very limited information about the virus. Two researchers at New Mexico State University partnered with colleagues in Wyoming and Utah to study these responses and identify some strategies to help communities be more prepared du  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, March 8 (TNSOps) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on March 7, 2022: A University of Wyoming project is among a small number of humanities projects nationwide selected for a Humanities Initiatives at Colleges and Universities program grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The project, "Integrating the Humanities Across Civics Education in Wyoming," provides UW's Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program with a two-year grant of   more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, March 9 (TNSOps) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Kate Welsh, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming's School of Teacher Education, was awarded a grant from the Rural Schools Collaborative (RSC) to explore the establishment of a rural teacher corps in Wyoming. The goal is to help keep Wyoming's brightest minds in the state while combating a teacher shortage that is being felt nationwide. Rural areas have suffered as budgets dwindle  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, March 10 (TNSOps) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on March 8, 2022: Despite the team's top seasonlong skier finishing out of the running, the University of Wyoming women's Nordic ski team took second overall today (Tuesday) on the first day of the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association's Collegiate National Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. The UW men just missed the podium, placing fourth behind the front-runners. More than 500 student  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, March 11 (TNSEco) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: University of Wyoming students and researchers soon will have access to one of the most technologically advanced facilities in the nation with the completion of the $100 million Science Initiative Building. The 153,000-square-foot, five-level structure joins several other UW facilities opened in recent years in the northwest section of campus focused on both undergraduate education and cutting-e  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, March 4 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Governor Mark Gordon is announcing a joint collaboration between his office and the Wyoming Legislature that will keep Wyoming on the forefront of the energy frontier. Together the Governor's Office and the Wyoming Legislature will jointly fund an energy development manager, a position that will work collaboratively with companies, policymakers and lawmakers. "We have seen added interest from the priv  more