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Title Team Funder Description Funding Start End
Wyoming INBRE Phase 5 – Central Wyoming College (Pending) Finney, W.F. (CWC PI); Fay, D. (UW, lead) NIH/NIGMS / Subcontract from Wyoming INBRE (Pending) Continuation of community college INBRE programming to develop a pipeline of students with interest in biomedical science for transfer to baccalaureate and graduate programs at the University of Wyoming. $300,000 2026 2031
Hooking More Students on STEM Pathways through High-Altitude Ballooning (Pending) Finney, W.F. (PI) Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium (Pending) Students design, build, and deploy an atmospheric gas sensing payload across multiple high-altitude balloon flights, culminating in poster presentations at the University of Wyoming Undergraduate Research Day in April 2027. $10,000 2026 2027
Optical Properties of Mineral Dust Aerosols: Building Capacity for Use-Inspired Applications Finney, W.F. (CWC); Saito, M. (UW, lead) NSF / Subcontract from University of Wyoming (2521432) Development and operation of an online internship program focusing on use-inspired applications of mineral dust aerosol research, including geospatial data management, remote sensing, and applied mathematics. $69,702 2025 2029
Hooking Students on STEM Pathways through High-Altitude Ballooning Finney, W.F. (PI) Wyoming NASA Space Grant Consortium Hands-on experiential learning through high-altitude ballooning for community college students. Students engaged in payload design, launch operations, and data collection. Led to 9 students engaged, 8 flights including 2023 annular and 2024 total solar eclipse campaigns, and posters at UW URID in 2024 and 2025. $10,000 2023 2024
CWC Participation in Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project Finney, W.F. (PI) National Space Grant Foundation / NASA (80NSSC23M0003) Participation in the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project for the 2023 annular and 2024 total solar solar eclipses. Contributed to a nationally collaborative atmospheric science dataset and peer-reviewed publication in Frontiers in Astronomy & Space Sciences (2026). $29,400 2023 2025
Wyoming INBRE Phase 4 – Central Wyoming College Finney, W.F. (CWC PI); Fay, D. (UW, lead) NIH/NIGMS P20GM103432 / Subcontract from Wyoming INBRE Enhance opportunities for Wyoming community college undergraduates to understand and participate in biomedical research. Supports biomedically-oriented courses, mentored research, laboratory equipment, student stipends, and faculty professional development. $416,412 2020 2026
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