Greetings, everyone!
I hope you enjoyed a great Fourth of July. It is always important to take time for family and friends, and to reflect and rejuvenate – especially now!
This has been a spring and summer of innovation in our college. We continue to creatively serve our mission areas, meeting our strategic goals through new methods and means. Thank you to everyone who has worked hard to make all of this happen!
It’s been a busy month. I’ve been traveling and connecting with alums and supporters of the college as far away as Calgary, Canada, and as nearby as Cheyenne (mainly at Cheyenne Frontier Days). We have a great group of supporters out there!
I know a lot of you are also traveling, or doing research in the field, or otherwise away for campus. It’s hard to believe, but our summer is more than half way over!
We are now the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS), although the switch over to the new name will take some time (signs, letterhead, business cards, etc.). But feel free to use it now if you like. Just to recap, we now have the departments of Chemistry, Geology & Geophysics, Mathematics & Statistics, and Physics & Astronomy as part of our college. For all you “old hand” CEAS members, please help welcome our new members of the CEPS family. I really do think we’re going to find this to be a good change.
I appreciate all of you, and your dedication to our shared missions of teaching, research and serving the citizens of Wyoming.
That’s all I have for now. Stay cool, stay healthy and take care!
Warm regards,
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Welcome to the July "Fast Facts Feature" a quick, fun and funny way for the college to learn a little bit more about each other. |
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FACULTY SPOTLIGHT | Jason Williford |
Department: Mathematics and Statistics
Title: Department Head and Professor
There are now 25 hours in a day! How do you spend your extra hour?
Catch up on my "honey do list"
If you could only pick three foods to eat for a month, which foods would you choose?
Lamb Gyros, Greek Salad, Broccoli Cheese Soup
What is one non-work related goal that you would like to achieve in the next five years?
Finally learn Italian
What was your favorite childhood bedtime story that you can still quote?
"And it was still hot"
What is one interesting fact about your high school or college?
Joe Biden spoke at my graduation (University of Delaware)
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Mechanical Proposal Selected for DOE’s 2023 Collegiate Wind Competition (CWC)
The DOE selected the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering's proposal to participate in the 2023 Collegiate Wind Competition. The CWC invites students to design, build, & test a prototype wind turbine and so much more! Learn more here.
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UW "I Am A Cowboy" Video Series is Now Open For Submissions
UW Institutional Marketing is looking for anyone interested in or looking to nominate someone to be potentially featured in the new "I Am A Cowboy" video series. Visit here to submit your name and/or someone you feel would be a great feature.
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UW Social Media Team Looking for Student Volunteers for 'Day in the Life'
The UW social media team is looking for graduate and undergraduate students that participate in something unique that would be visually exciting in a video, such as research, a big project or awesome extracurricular activities. Interested? Contact here.
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Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Holds Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortiums
The summer school program brings researchers from all over the world to lecture and discuss current research trends. The programs include free probability and random matrices, and mathematical modeling in ecology. More details on the event can be found here.
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Windy Ridge Foundation Astro Camp Takes Place at UW
24 middle school students have been selected from Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and South Dakota for an opportunity to explore traveling to and colonizing planets during the Windy Ridge Foundation Astro Camp at UW. Learn more about the camp here.
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Laramie-Based Startup, Wyonics LLC, Receives Phase II Funds from DOE
Congratulations to Laramie-based startup, Wyonics LLC, on receiving Phase II funding from the Department of Energy (DOE). Funds will support a project on nuclear forensics, and UW students involved in this work. Read more here.
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Construction Management Program Graduates Receive High Marks
The first graduating class of the Construction Management (CM) program have scored equal and above the national average on the AIC Associate Constructor Level 1 Exam from the Constructor Certification Commission. All CM students are required to take the AIC certificate exam during their capstone course. Way to go!
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Want to Honor Someone?
The CEPS Awards and Recognition Committee is looking for nominations for our Hall of Fame, Distinguished Engineer/Scientist and Distinguished Service Award. Complete details about award descriptions and nomination forms are available online here.
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Catch Up On Past CEPS Dean's Newsletters
Missed any of the previous CEPS Dean's Newsletters? Discover all of the CEPS Dean's Newsletters here.
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Who Do You Contact For Building Issues?
If you encounter or hear of any building issues please contact CEPS Facilities Manager Steve Salmans at (307) 766-6170 or by email.
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Fall 2022 Semester Start Date
August 22
University of Wyoming Fall 2022 semester begins
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Professional Development Corner |
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Put the "tech" into your teaching. Learn how to use technology to enhance course design, lesson planning, presentations, in-class activities, assessments, and student achievement and engagement.
Author Kevin Kelly explains how learning outcomes can be adapted to support technology in the classroom, and guides educators through selecting the appropriate technology for their activity, module, or class. Then he shows how to apply technology in three key areas: finding, creating, and sharing content with students; facilitating classroom activities; and assessing learning inside the classroom or online.
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Dario Grana, a professor and Wyoming Excellence Chair in the University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics, will receive the Outstanding Educator Award from the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).
Keep reading to learn more here.
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Haibo Zhai, the Roy and Caryl Cline Chair of Engineering, Environment and Natural Resources in the UW College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Kipp Coddington, UW School of Energy Resources senior adviser, along with their colleagues, collaborated on a study that analyzes Wyoming as a fossil-rich power state seeking to generate reliable low-carbon electricity by 2030. The study was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology.
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Society of Petroleum Engineers Honors Morteza Dejam |
Department of Petroleum Engineering Associate Professor Morteza Dejam has been recognized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). He is the recipient of the 2022 SPE Regional Service Award. As the recipient of the SPE award, his name will be listed on www.spe.org. The award will be presented to him during a formal award presentation ceremony.
The SPE Regional Service Award acknowledges exceptional contributions to the SPE at the section or regional level and recognizes singular devotion of time and effort to the programs and development of the member’s section and region that set it apart from the services rendered each year by many members of the Society.
Dejam has received all three possible awards in his area of research, teaching, and service from the SPE at the section or regional level, including the 2019 SPE Regional Distinguished Achievement Award for Petroleum Engineering Faculty, the 2019 SPE Regional Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award, and the 2022 SPE Regional Service Award.
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New Research by Professor Anthony Denzer reveals that Los Angeles Architect was Considered a Dangerous Subversive During “Red Scare”. |
New research by University of Wyoming Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management Professor Anthony Denzer reveals that Los Angeles architect Gregory Ain (1908‒1988), was considered a dangerous subversive and subject to extensive FBI surveillance during the “Red Scare” period.
Denzer’s essay, “Gregory Ain: Under Surveillance,” is published in the book Notes from Another Los Angeles: Gregory Ain and the Construction of a Social Landscape, edited by Anthony Fontenot and published by MIT Press in July.
Denzer previously wrote the book Gregory Ain: The Modern Home as Social Commentary (Rizzoli, 2008), a historical account of Ain’s architecture and its political character, but the full extent of Ain’s targeting by the FBI was not known at that time. Denzer obtained Ain’s 280-page FBI file in early 2015, and its surprising contents are analyzed in detail for the first time in this new book chapter.
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