The University of Wyoming boasts a variety of opportunities for students to interact with like-minded individuals. Out of the many RSOs on campus, the Human Physiology Club is starting to gain attention.
The club’s goal is to help students understand the mechanisms within the human body that help it function and to provide opportunities to meet professionals in the field.
The club, which meets every first and third Friday of the month in Biological Sciences room 219, started last semester and is already at 45 members and growing. The club is led by presidents Bryce Snow and Shaihla Kahn, Vice President Coleman Young, Secretary Amanda Christensen and Treasurer Alexandra Verosky.
Clubs with a specific purpose help students to meet other people and faculty within their majors and let the community know what they are doing.
“Something big for the club is to not just point at med school,” said member Tristan Bohlman. “A lot of physiology students think they have to go to med school, so we try to show them different paths … It’s going to be really cool to show students a different way to use their physiology degree.”
Working with members of the community and Cross Fit 7220, the club helped set up an exercise program at the Downtown Clinic, which provides primary health care to low-income and uninsured Albany County residents. The club helps host a free workout every Monday for clinic patients.
Working at the clinic helps members be an active and involved part of the community, said club President Bryce Snow. They also helped raise nearly $2,000 for the clinic.
“So this really is a real tangible step of helping raise money in the community and showing involvement by going to the class each week,” Snow said. “On our end we just help facilitate the kind of organizational ends of it.”
In addition to providing a service opportunity for those interested in physiology, the club was created to fill a gap in extracurriculars for majors who did not have an academic related club.
“We realized there wasn’t a real solid RSO designed for people in our academic path and that’s just kind of narrowed down in human biology and physiology and the kind of career paths you can kind of take in that,” said Snow. “Our advisor Dr. Navratil she had full support and was really supportive in getting started. Once she was on board it was cool and kinda got it running. Overall the process has been cool though.”
The Human
Physiology Club encourages anybody interested in learning about the human body
and what it can do to contact them through UW Connect.
