February 1, 2021
State, national and international media frequently feature the University of Wyoming and members of its community in stories. Here is a summary of some of the recent coverage:
The Wyoming Tribune Eagle republished an article that quoted a number of experts on whether Wyoming residents will get the COVID-19 vaccine. Discussing the economic side, UW economist Rob Godby said it is possible that the longer people resist being vaccinated, the longer the pandemic will last and the greater the economic fallout will be.
UW and the state’s seven community colleges are launching a collaborative effort to better prepare Wyoming students for the state’s evolving economy and encourage entrepreneurship. Wyoming Public Radio, Cowboy State Daily, Oil City News, Wyoming News Now, The Casper Star-Tribune (CS-T) and KFBC Radio reported that Gov. Mark Gordon and UW President Ed Seidel announced the Wyoming Innovation Network, a joint effort by all of the schools to focus more o
January 26, 2021
A past Wyoming History Day student makes her presentation during the 2019 competition. UW’s American Heritage Center, which hosts the annual event, has developed a website with digitized materials to help students with their projects. (UW Photo)
A website recently launched by the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center (AHC), a Wyoming History Day (WHD) participant, now boasts digitized materials on 12 popular topics within the AHC’s collections with more planned.
The website provides online delivery of historical materials to WHD students to help create their projects and presentations. WHD is an affiliate of National History Day (NHD), with the competition running across the entire school year through district meets and then the state competition. The top projects compete at the national level.
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On Nov. 5, 2018, students Spencer Wiinamaki and Reino Helppi showed off their lapstrake-style boat to master boat builder Alex Comb and Calumet High School teacher Rob Bohlsen.
CALUMET TOWNSHIP Robert Bohlsen, Calumet High School wood shop teacher, and Corey Soumis, metal shop teacher, have been waiting for over a year to start two classes, one on traditional Finnish sauna construction, and the other on traditional blacksmithing, which will culminate in manufacturing the iron hardware that will be needed to complete the construction of the sauna.
Principal Jennifer Peters, who herself of Finnish descent, said there is a definitive purpose to introducing classes pertaining to Finnish heritage.
LA GRANDE â The date was May 24, 2017, and George Venn, an award-winning La Grande writer and poet, had just completed a reading in Cove at an event honoring Brock Evans, one of the nationâs most decorated environmental activists.
Venn did not know it then, but the end of the reading actually was a beginning â the start of a literary journey unlike any he may travel again.
Venn gave his reading at a surprise party celebrating Evansâ 80th birthday. The works Venn chose for the occasion included two poems by Evans from a collection of writings in his basement, âKeepers of the Doorâ and âElgy.â