WRI celebrates 100 years of cooperative research!
Western Research Institute originated in 1924 as the US Department of Interior Bureau of Mines Petroleum Research Laboratory.
It then evolved to become what it is today, a non-profit R&D organization partnering to innovate, develop, and commercialize technologies using advanced sustainable chemistry, analysis, and innovative engineering, for carbon, natural resources, and wastes.
Inviting our main stakeholders, we organized a Centennial Event to present the history of WRI, based on evidence gathered by John Waggener and Erin Shadrick from the University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Group.
The current ongoing projects were highlighted by WRI’s management team. Then, options for the future were discussed with the participants. '
We couldn’t finish the day without a 100th birthday cake and an evening dinner with Board members, current and former employees with their families.
To learn more about the history of WRI, see here.