Rocky Mountain Power, in partnership with the University of Wyoming, recognized two current UW faculty members with the UW Faculty Service Award for Economic Development.

Andy Hansen, associate provost and professor of mechanical engineering, and Mike Urynowicz, associate professor in the department of civil and architectural engineering, were honored.

 TheUniversity of Wyoming Geological Museumwill close Monday, May 7, for its first significant renovation in decades.

Before it closes for the summer’s worth of work, however, the public has a chance to grab one last look at the venerable museum — and to get a glimpse of the facility’s future.

The University of Wyoming will confer its highest award, the honorary doctoral degree, upon three individuals who will be recognized during UW commencement ceremonies May 5.

They are longtime Thermopolis teacher and civic leader Karl Allen; Sheridan native Donna Diers, a national leader in nursing education, research and health policy; and Casper native and network news correspondent Pete Williams.

University of Wyoming College of Law students Marci Crank and Kyle Ridgeway, both of Casper, came within one point of winning the American Bar Association’s (AB) recent Student Client Counseling national championship held at North Carolina Central University Law School in Durham, N.C.

ESPN sports writer Howard Bryant will be the guest speaker at the University of Wyoming Libraries Book and Author Luncheon at noon Thursday, April 26, at the UW Conference Center at the Hilton Garden Inn.

The University of Wyoming is sustaining its record enrollment numbers, with 12,839 students registered for the spring semester.

That’s an increase of 137 students from the same time a year ago, according to a report presented last week to the UW Board of Trustees.

The University of Wyoming will reunite alumni living in Casper and surrounding areas at a reception Monday, March 19, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Petroleum Club in Casper. The event will follow the afternoon groundbreaking of the new UW/CC Center/Student Union building at Casper College.

Separation of church and state, a discussion about today’s economy and a look into the Broadway smash “Spamalot” are among topics Saturday, March 3, for the winter term of Saturday U — the University of Wyoming’s free one-day college education program.

Plans to revitalize the University of Wyoming Geological Museum are moving forward with the selection of an architectural firm to design improvements to the 56-year-old facility.

Work is slated to take place this summer in the first phase of renovation aimed at making the museum a focal point for student and faculty research, while giving the public an appreciation of Wyoming’s geologic history and mineral resources.

The University of Wyoming has been tabbed for select company: membership in the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC). The affiliation will enable UW to form research partnerships with other universities, pursue federal research funding and even potentially be tapped as a computational sciences resource expert by President Obama and/or Congress.

No one can fault Margaret Haydon, Mark Ritchie and other University of Wyoming Department of Art faculty members for the excessive elation they express now that classes have begun in the university’s new Visual Arts Building.

For students in Rachel Watson’s lower-division microbiology classes at the University of Wyoming, there’s little opportunity to be bored.

Kali Fagnant can recall the personal gratification she felt when she helped serve a Thanksgiving Day meal to those in need.

A University of Wyoming environmental engineering senior design team won the national championship in the wastewater design division at the 2011 Water Environment Federation’s recent national conference in Los Angeles, Calif.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the Soviet Union during the historic final years of the Cold War, spoke on “Global Unrest and International Leadership in the 21st Century” at the University of Wyoming on Friday, Oct. 14, in the Arena-Auditorium. More than 6,000 people attended the Homecoming weekend event.