| Written by Sara Davis |
| Thursday, 26 May 2011 07:40 |
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Scheduled for June 12-17, the Wyoming Humanities Council will be putting on the Summer Classics Institute to provide educational opportunities for the community, professional teaching standard board continuing education credits for teachers and outreach graduate enrichment credits to students.
The 2011 edition of the Summer Classics Institute is titled “Rome and Augustus.”
Lectures will be centered on Rome in the time and life of Augustus’s reign, 27 BCE to 14 CE. The main classic work of the series, Virgil’s Aeneid, will be an underlying theme for the lecture series. Other classic works such as poems by Publius Ovidius Naso, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, and others will be discussed in lectures.
This year’s lecturers are Philip Holt, University of Wyoming professor in modern and classical languages; Paul Flesher, University of Wyoming professor in religious Studies; Kurt Raaflaub and David Herlihy, professor of classics & history at Brown University.
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| Written by Seneca Flowers |
| Thursday, 19 May 2011 07:28 |
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If you are going to retire you might as well retire in Laramie, or, according to Money Magazine’s Donna Rosato, one of the top-five places to retire in the United States.
Rosato spoke Monday on NBC’s Today show about the best places to retire within the U.S., and Laramie topped the magazine’s 2011 list for those who fear taxes.
Rosato told the Today Show her magazine judged on five criteria this year.
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| Written by Egla Negussie |
| Wednesday, 06 April 2011 21:09 |
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One person has been confirmed dead in a plane crash after debris from the plane was found Wednesday near mile marker 327 on I-80, according to the Albany County Sheriff's Office.
“We received a 911 call at 9:08 this morning from a driver who observed the crashed plane 250 yards off the road,” Rob DeBree, Albany County undersheriff, said.
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| Written by Davis Bonner |
| Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:28 |
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Though some people can navigate technology’s most complicated products, many still have questions when it comes to operating iPads, iPods and iPhones.
WIND Assistive Technology Resources held a webinar, titled “APPtitude: Take the mystery out and put the app in!” Wednesday afternoon.
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| Written by Hannah Wheeler |
| Thursday, 19 May 2011 07:32 |
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A housing opportunity was placed on the schedule for the fall of 2012 at a University of Wyoming Board of Trustees meeting on May 6.
At the meeting, the board approved the final development and financing structure with American Campus Communities for an $18.6 million student housing project east of 22nd Street near War Memorial Stadium.
The proposed project, situated on 8.5 acres of land left vacant after the demolition last fall of the Summit View Apartments, will consist of 15 two- and three-story residential buildings with 332 beds and 344 parking spaces. The project was designed to replace the 325 beds eliminated with the deconstruction of Summit View. The building was designed to have suite-style floor plans with townhouse structures.
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