Wyoming
University of Wyoming receives grant from National Science Foundation
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) – The University of Wyoming and partner institutions have been awarded an innovation grant of up to $160M by the National Science Foundation.
The funds will be used to used to help efforts in driving innovation, technology, and economic growth.
The Colorado – Wyoming Climate Resilience Engine is one of the ten recipients of the NSF’s inaugural regional innovation engines program.
UW will seek opportunities to co-create technologies in soil carbon and carbon offsets; methane monitoring and detection, resilient energy expansion, earth sensing, smart communities, complex modeling technologies, data capture, and other technology areas of interest.
“This is under the sort of overall idea that the changes in the climate are gonna necessitate some new technologies for people to thrive and succeed and so this is about developing those technologies kind of in an academic setting and then taking them out for commercial application as well,” said Chad Baldwin, Associate Vice President of Communications and Marketing for the University of Wyoming.
This prestigious award places the Co-Wy Engine at the forefront of the nation’s environmental and climate technology initiatives.
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A Buffalo High School senior will soon trade in her black and gold, to play for the brown and gold.
Karly Davis has signed a written offer of athletic aid, to play basketball for the University of Wyoming Cowgirls.
So far this season, she is averaging 19.5 points per game, which is 4th in Class 3A and 8th in all classes of Wyoming High School Girls Basketball.
Her average is up 1 point per game from last year.
Davis explains what she thinks it was that Cowgirl Head Coach Heather Ezell and the UW Coaching Staff saw in her that made them try to recruit her.
“I’m definitely a competitor. I think I show that a lot in my game, and I think I can shoot the ball pretty well, so I think that’s kind of what they sparked interest in me with.”
Davis adds she plans to major in elementary education.
SPRINGDALE, Utah (KUTV) — A Utah snowmobiler died in a Wyoming avalanche near LaBarge Creek.
Nicholas Bringhurst, 31, of Springville, Utah, was caught and buried in an avalanche at about 2:15 p.m. Jan. 11, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
Air Idaho responded to the area along with Star Valley Search and Rescue.
Officials said Bringhurst’s friend located and uncovered him. Despite CPR efforts, Bringhurst died as a result of injuries sustained in the avalanche.
The sheriff’s office expressed its “deepest sympathies” to the Bringhurst family in a social media post.
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A 34-year-old Tunkhannock woman died from injuries suffered in a two-car crash Sunday morning in Wyoming County, state police at Tunkhannock said.
Victoria Njeri was traveling in the northbound lane on Route 11 in Nicholson Twp. around 7:46 a.m. when the driver of another vehicle, traveling south, lost control of his truck due to icy conditions and struck Njeri’s car, troopers said.
Njeri died at the scene, police said. The other driver, Thomas Chickey, 67, of Old Forge, suffered suspected minor injuries, troopers said.
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