Laramie Live Staff

Rebecca Podio, a University of Wyoming senior from Newcastle, is among a high number of petroleum engineering students in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. The number of petroleum engineering majors has increased 55 percent from a year ago – a huge increase considering that the program was reinstated just seven years ago. (UW ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will speak at the University of Wyoming Thursday, Oct. 25. (Photo Courtesy of UW) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will speak to students and the public at the University of Wyoming Thursday, Oct ...

While no federal carbon emission standard exists, limits set by environmental regulators nonetheless pose extreme economic challenges to continued coal-fired electricity generation in the United States and elsewhere. Finding the balance between the cost of meeting those requirements and the impact on rate payers is the focus of energy economists across the globe.

Plans to develop the Cirrus Sky Technology Park in Laramie have received a significant boost with the signing of an agreement by the University of Wyoming to buy a portion of the proposed development.

(UW Photo) A celebration is scheduled Monday, Oct. 15. That’s when the long-anticipated NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center is unveiled during a ceremonial opening dedication in the North Range Business Park in Cheyenne. The invitation-only event begins at 10 a ...

“On This Land We Put Our Brand, 125 Years of Excellence, Pride and Tradition” is the theme of the 2012 University of Wyoming Homecoming, Oct. 11-13. Activities will include a pig roast, dancing, a band concert and the time-honored Homecoming sing, parade and football game along with numerous reunions, seminars, hospitality events, campus tours and open houses.

University of Wyoming officials have broken ground on a new $1.2 million state-of-the-art Cowboy and Cowgirl Indoor Golf Practice Facility that will give UW athletes and community players the opportunity to work on their game year-round.

Not My Life, a documentary that depicts the cruel and dehumanizing practices of global human trafficking and modern slavery, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 20, in the University of Wyoming College of Education auditorium.