CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Nov. 3 -- Gov. Mark Gordon, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Nov. 2, 2022: Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have announced that they have reached a settlement on the state's appeal of an acquisition of land by the BLM in Natrona and Carbon Counties. In June, Wyoming filed an appeal challenging the BLM's purchase of more than 35,000 acres of the Marton Ranch near Casper. The State expressed concerns that BLM did not involve t  more

ALLENDALE, Michigan, Nov. 1 (TNSfund) -- Grand Valley State University issued the following news: Grand Valley is proving its commitment to increasing access to education with the addition of two TRIO Upward Bound Math-Science programs to serve high school students in Wyoming and Detroit, helping them to strengthen their STEM skills. GVSU now has 11 federal TRIO programs, the most of any Michigan college or university that houses these programs. When the two new Upward Bound Math-Science progr  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 1 (TNSpro) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: A new master's degree program in energy and petroleum engineering will be the first to offer graduate courses in blockchain starting in fall 2023 at the University of Wyoming. "If you have any B.S. degree and fulfill the admission requirements of UW, you can apply for our course-based Master of Petroleum Engineering degree," says Vamegh Rasouli, professor and head of the UW Department of Energy an  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The University of Wyoming's Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute (EORI) has published a study illustrating some of the methodology used to determine the best plan of action for improving production upon discovery of a new oil and gas field or reservoir. Reservoir characterization and predictive modeling have provided options for enhancing production in a recently discovered trend in the Muddy Formation  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 5 (TNSper) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Megan McGuffey Skinner is the new University of Wyoming Cent$ible Nutrition Program (CNP) assistant director in the College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources. CNP is a hands-on cooking, nutrition and physical activity program that serves income-qualifying families across the state. A Wyoming native, McGuffey Skinner first became involved in the program as a student in UW's Colle  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 5 (TNSper) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Katie Li-Oakey has become the first female full professor in the University of Wyoming's Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. Li-Oakey is a leading researcher in her field of multiscale materials for separation, energy conversion and storage, and health care. She is well known in the scientific community for her dedication to connecting fundamental research with functional materials   more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 4 (TNSfund) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The power of community resulted in a history-making UW Giving Day, an annual philanthropic tradition of the University of Wyoming. A total of 6,293 donors from all 50 states and 10 countries gave a total of $4,107,408 -- funds that will go directly to support students and programs across UW. Giving Day is spearheaded by the UW Foundation and took place Oct. 19-20, noon to noon, during Homecoming   more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 4 (TNSpar) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: The University of Wyoming has joined seven other universities in the newly awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Great Plains Hub -- a $14 million, five-year effort to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs in rural, economically underserved regions. NSF I-Corps consists of regional hubs across the n  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 5 (TNSawa) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: A University of Wyoming senior research scientist is part of the AmericaView consortium that was recently honored with a 2021 William Thomas Pecora Group Award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA. Ramesh Sivanpillai, with UW's Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC), is part of the AmericaView consortium that was recognized for advancing Earth observation education throu  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Questions of accuracy of vote counts in the 2020 presidential election continue to roil American politics. In contrast, a recent poll of Wyoming residents conducted by the University of Wyoming finds the people of Equality State have great confidence in how elections are handled. Ninety-four percent of survey respondents say they are "very confident" or "somewhat confident" that their votes will b  more