LARAMIE, Wyo., June 5 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release:

Ten master's and Ph.D. students studying biodiversity at the University of Wyoming received more than $36,000 in grants from UW's Biodiversity Institute. The Biodiversity Graduate Student Research Enhancement Grants are awarded each year to multiple master's and doctoral students to enhance or expand their ongoing research.



Because of many generous donors, the Biodiversity Institute was able to fund 10 different projects on topics including: freshwater mussel populations in Wyoming; white-nose syndrome in bats in South Dakota; wildlife use of beaver dam analogs; and quantifying the effects of protection gradients of large herbivores in Zambia.



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