LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept. 2 (TNSfund) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Sept. 1, 2022: A recent gift from Dave and Kelly Dunham to the University of Wyoming College of Education has created the Dunham Family Fellows program to develop future teacher leaders for Wyoming. The program was designed to provide innovative and unique experiences during an impressionable time in a future teacher's educational journey. The Dunham family has a passion to create positive exp  more

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 2 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release on Sept. 1, 2022: A federal judge today granted Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen's request to intervene in the case Dakota Resource Council v. U.S. Department of Interior which threatens oil and gas lease sales on federal land. Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming are also intervening states. Attorney General Knudsen can now protect Montana's sovereign and economic interests in continuing quarte  more

DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 26 -- The Pennsylvania House Republicans issued the following news release: * * * Rep. Karen Boback (R-Lackawanna/Luzerne/Wyoming) met recently with Mark Barden, co-founder and CEO of the Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund, who wanted to acknowledge her work to create a new School Mental Health Initiative for Pennsylvania's public schools. Barden's 7-year-old son, Daniel, was one of the 26 victims of the mass school shooting in Newtown, Conn., nearly 10 years ago. His nonprof  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 31 (TNSconf) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network will host the Wyoming Small Business Economic Diversification Conference Wednesday, Sept. 21, from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Best Western Downtown Casper Hotel, formerly the Clarion Inn, at 123 W. E St. The event is open to small-business owners, economic development partners, and local and regional government officials. Cost of the even  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Thomas Boothby, a University of Wyoming assistant professor of molecular biology, recently received a nearly $100,00 NASA grant to study the effects of long-term radiation on tardigrades and nematode worms in an effort to help better prepare astronauts for space flight. By studying how the tiny creatures cope with acute and chronic exposure to ionizing radiation, Boothby hopes to better understan  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept. 3 (TNSres) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Katie Wagner, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming's Department of Botany, is part of a research team that received a $2.5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant designed to look at the effects of climate change on a large lake crucial to the ecosystem and the people living in Africa's Great Rift Valley. The body of water -- known as Lake Tanganyika -- is one Wagner has st  more

CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Aug. 30 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Aug. 29, 2022: Governor Mark Gordon's education initiative has completed its statewide listening sessions and is currently preparing a series of policy recommendations. Building on the momentum of a statewide survey that garnered in excess of 7,000 responses, the Governor's Reimagining and Innovating the Delivery of Education (RIDE) Advisory Group hosted 17 listening sessions with more than 200 atte  more